Enterprises are moving toward a multi-cloud deployment. They started with moving their mission-critical workloads to cloud/service provider (CP/SP) hosted cloud offerings. Now they are starting to consume more of their applications as SaaS offerings, such as Office 365 and Oracle ERP/CRM clouds. As the next step toward a true hybrid-IT model, enterprises are also consuming IaaS & PaaS offerings from public clouds, such as AWS and Azure. The diagram below shows a typical enterprise hybrid-IT deployment with some popular SaaS services.
As enterprises move more of their mission-critical workloads to cloud/service provider cloud offerings, application availability, performance and end-user experience have to match their on-premises deployments. Applications are being delivered from within cloud provider hosted cloud and public clouds (such as VMC on AWS) over the WAN/broadband network to enterprise users in branches. The WAN is becoming an increasingly important aspect of meeting application level SLAs.
Enterprise WAN Challenges
With these multi-cloud and cloud-native application trends, Enterprises face three challenges:
Lower application performance and poor user experience
Higher WAN complexity
Slower multi-cloud adoption
At VMworld Europe 2019, we are hosting a session with T-Systems on how SD-WAN is helping enterprises overcome these challenges.
If you are a network/application/data center/cloud/IT buyer/operator/technologist at an enterprise of any size, you would greatly benefit from attending this session and learning about SD-WAN. In this session, we’ll discuss these questions:
What is SD-WAN and how does it help enterprises with multi-cloud adoption?
What factors should you consider when evaluating an SD-WAN solution?
Why should you consume SD-WAN services from cloud/service providers?
How is application & network security better with SD-WAN?
