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Consistency, Connectivity, and the Cloud

Consistency, Connectivity, and the Cloud

Ensuring Safe Travels During Your Digital Transformation Journey

Ensuring Safe Travels During Your Digital Transformation Journey

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Accelerate your cloud migration journey to create a more consistent user experience

At Silver Peak’s recent virtual thought leadership event, Consistency, Connectivity, and the Cloud: Ensuring Safe Travels During Your Digital Transformation Journey,  network, security, and IT panelists came together to share their thoughts on:

  • Adopting new security solutions that are independent, quick, and cost-efficient
  • Delivering the highest quality experience to users across the organization, improving productivity and customer satisfaction 
  • Enforcing consistent security policies no matter where users access applications 
  • Increasing IT operational efficiency by implementing SD-WAN and SASE approaches to accelerate transformation
  • How migrating business apps to the cloud increases business agility, end user productivity, and competitiveness

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Accelerate your cloud migration journey to create a more consistent user experience

At Silver Peak’s recent virtual thought leadership event, Consistency, Connectivity, and the Cloud: Ensuring Safe Travels During Your Digital Transformation Journey,  network, security, and IT panelists came together to share their thoughts on:

  • Adopting new security solutions that are independent, quick, and cost-efficient
  • Delivering the highest quality experience to users across the organization, improving productivity and customer satisfaction 
  • Enforcing consistent security policies no matter where users access applications 
  • Increasing IT operational efficiency by implementing SD-WAN and SASE approaches to accelerate transformation
  • How migrating business apps to the cloud increases business agility, end user productivity, and competitiveness

Access the Full Content Here:

Key Panel Takeaways

Key Panel Takeaways

SD-WAN is transforming the way businesses build their computational networks. Employees in a work from home situation are demanding more accessibility with greater speeds, and networks need to meet those demands while retaining strict security. Network Administrators have increasingly turned from VPN systems to SD-WAN in order to keep up with new demands on their networks.

On January 26th, 2022, Aruba Networks hosted Consistency, Connectivity, and the Cloud: Ensuring Safe Travels During Your Digital Transformation Journey, a virtual panel discussion featuring security and network executives to discuss the way they are transforming their networks to be future-proof and secure.

Here are a few important takeaways from the conversation:

1. Steering application traffic vs. routing

Software Defined Wide-Area Networks, or SD-WAN, was born out of a need to efficiently connect end users to an increasing array of applications required for work. SD-WAN technologies can intelligently connect users to the applications they require, rather than routing all traffic to a central server.

“You really want to access applications as closely as possible to where your workers are so that you keep the distance and delay low,” said Derek Garanth from Aruba Networks. SD-WAN technologies are able to steer application traffic based on a known network topology, rather than routing it.

2. The labor costs of router-centric networks

“The router-centric architecture is heavy on system administrators,” said Jim Routh, a former CISO. He described the challenge of opening a new branch using these older technologies. “You’re talking weeks to months of planning the approach, testing out scenarios, deploying it…so it’s a big deal from a labor perspective.”

Jim found that SD-WAN technologies eliminated a great deal of that labor cost and compressed timelines when opening new branches.

3. Scalability

Munya Kanaventi of Netflix described the problems of designing global networks in a world of instability and outages. “We have no forward-looking data to say, there’s gonna be three wildfires in California and a tornado in the midwest…all within the same 12 hours.” SD-WAN technologies allow Munya’s team to scale seamlessly and globally when outages occur and scale back down when it’s no longer required.

“You can scale and everyone on the receiving end still has the same quality and experience with the applications,” he said.

4. Security in SD-WAN technology

“The biggest gain for me was actually security,” said Matthew Douglas of Sentara Healthcare. He talked about the rigorous security requirements of working in the healthcare field, especially with the increasing demand for telehealth. “If you’re not moving towards getting more secure, you’re already hacked.”

SD-WAN technologies have allowed Matthew’s team to be more precise with the regulatory security demands required in healthcare networks.

5. Responding to the Internet of Things

Network administrators are dealing with a growing number of internet-connected devices on their networks. “You have to start getting technologies that are identifying devices on the wire and responding subsequently,” said Munya Kanaventi. “It’s about classifying certain devices in a certain way and encompassing them with secure technologies that are not intrusive to the device itself.”

The panel discussed the threats posed by these devices on their networks, and how SD-WAN technologies could help deal with those vulnerabilities.

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Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. The company designs and delivers Mobility-Defined Networks that empower IT departments and #GenMobile, a new generation of tech-savvy users who rely on their mobile devices for every aspect of work and personal communication. To create a mobility experience that #GenMobile and IT can rely upon, Aruba Mobility-Defined Networks™ automate infrastructure-wide performance optimization and trigger security actions that used to require manual IT intervention. The results are dramatically improved productivity and lower operational costs. To learn more, visit Aruba at www.arubanetworks.com.

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