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The secure access service edge (SASE) space is white hot. Dell’Oro Group estimates the SASE market size will grow by 5X over the next five years.(1) Several converging factors are driving this growth:
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<li>Applications are moving to the cloud and edge.</li>
<li>Employees are accessing these apps from anywhere as they adopt multi-modal workstyles.</li>
<li>Data processed, analyzed, and stored at the edge is proliferating at a rapid rate.</li>
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To adapt to these changes, organizations must adopt both a cloud-centric and an edge-native model, support a hybrid workforce, and deliver a superior user experience—all while protecting against emerging security threats. SASE is emerging as the preferred architectural approach for networking and security across this distributed environment.
<h5>Advancing VMware SASE</h5>
<a href="https://www.vmware.com/company/news/updates/2020/corrected-vmware-announces-future-ready-workforce-solutions-to-address-the-needs-of-the-distributed-workforce.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">We introduced VMware SASE at VMworld 2020</a>. Since then, we’ve been building a platform that converges industry-leading cloud networking and cloud security services. At the same time, VMware and our partners have stood up more than 150 SASE points of presence (PoP), which are strategically distributed around the world and serve as an on-ramp to SaaS and other cloud services.
VMware SASE combines industry-leading SD-WAN capabilities with cloud-delivered security functions, including cloud web security, cloud access security broker, zero trust network access, and AIOps, among others. These capabilities are delivered as-a-service from a global network of PoPs. <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/sase/2021/06/10/announcing-general-availability-of-vmware-cloud-web-security/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VMware Cloud Web Security launched today</a>. We are proud of the progress we’ve made. And we are just getting started.
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<h5>No One Puts Service Edge in the Corner!</h5>
When it comes to SASE, some vendors focus on secure access. You hear a lot less from other SASE vendors related to service edge. It’s a critical part of our SASE platform strategy and where the true potential of SASE lies. While most competitive solutions are leading customers down a dead-end road, VMware is putting them on a superhighway to the future.
VMware SASE is uniquely positioned between the service provider underlay and the application overlay. The platform can draw on 5G services that improve latency or performance, while simultaneously delivering these capabilities to applications running in the cloud or workloads moving to the edge. This is critical when we are talking about apps that are edge-native (only deployed at edge sites).
Take drone fleets as an example. Many logistics companies use drones in massive warehouses to help with inventory and restocking. There’s no room for error when it comes to flight paths as drones zip above employees working on the floor. Low latency and network reliability are non-negotiable. That’s where a SASE platform can leverage a 5G underlay service, such as a multi-access edge computing service, to deliver and improve the performance of a drone management application that is delivered as an overlay service.
If you think about it from this angle, what we are really creating is an extensible service edge platform in the cloud. Businesses can consume services on-demand in a subscription-based model.
The pandemic proved we never really know when we’ll have to make a quick pivot in the name of business continuity. An extensible service edge platform would help customers deploy the services they need on the turn of a dime.
<h5>Limitless Possibilities</h5>
Up until this point, we’ve focused on delivering exceptional cloud networking and cloud security services via our SASE platform. But we never limit our imagination based on what’s already been delivered. With an eye on the horizon, we see limitless possibilities as to the variety of services that can be delivered over our SASE platform, ultimately unlocking new potential for our customers and partners.
1. Dell&#8217;Oro Group. “Advanced Research Report on Secure Access Service Edge (SASE).” Mauricio Sanchez. October 2020.

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This time last year, our customers were staring down a Herculean task. Almost overnight, IT teams were asked to retool systems and processes to support a fully distributed workforce. They rose to the challenge in heroic fashion. Today, they continue to innovate to support their organizations in an ever-evolving environment.
Many of these organizations have put their trust in VMware and Microsoft. By bringing the best of both companies together, we’re helping customers deliver exceptional digital experiences by enabling any app on any cloud. We make these apps more securely accessible from any device. And for putting their trust in us, we humbly thank them.
Just as our customers’ digital transformation forged ahead in the tumult of 2020, our partnership with Microsoft continues to steadily progress. As our customers (virtually) gather for Microsoft Ignite Spring 2021, we’re excited to share updates on how our companies continue to collaborate in areas most critical to our customers.
A Flourishing Partnership
Today, Microsoft and VMware support thousands of mutual customers spanning all segments, geographies and industries.
With a shared passion for dreaming up and executing big ideas, we integrate and cross-sell technology solutions to drive customers’ digital transformation forward. Our partnership enables customers to migrate mission-critical apps to the cloud, quickly scale infrastructure and enable instant access to data on any device. We do this without compromising user experience, productivity, management, cost or security.
Our partnership with Microsoft is all-inclusive and spans all our strategic priorities:
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<li>App modernization</li>
<li>Multi-cloud</li>
<li>Virtual Cloud Network</li>
<li>Digital workspace</li>
<li>Intrinsic security</li>
</ul>
App Modernization
Over the past year, VMware and Microsoft unveiled several initiatives to help developers build and deploy powerful apps more quickly and with less headaches.
For instance, just a few months ago at SpringOne, <a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/announcing-the-general-availability-of-azure-spring-cloud" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we announced the general availability of Azure Spring Cloud</a>, a fully managed Azure service for Spring Boot apps. Microsoft and VMware partnered closely on Azure Spring Cloud to enable customers to run their most critical Spring apps in production at scale with confidence.
At Ignite, VMware announced certification of VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with Azure Arc. Faced with the demands of enabling remote workforces and delivering new digital experiences to customers, modern applications that can run on any cloud are now a business imperative. VMware believes Kubernetes will become the dial-tone for modern applications. This can only be achieved through a thriving ecosystem that promotes interoperability. By certifying Tanzu Kubernetes Grid with Azure Arc, we’re teaming with Microsoft to help enterprises achieve the full potential of Kubernetes through a consistent experience.
Multi-Cloud
In the wake of COVID-19, organizations are increasingly adopting a multi-cloud strategy to help ensure continuity, resiliency, and cost efficiency for their business. As such, Azure VMware Solution continues to be an area of great excitement and momentum for both companies.
At last year’s Ignite, <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-vmware/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Microsoft introduced the new Azure VMware Solution</a>, which is now live in eight global regions. The platform continues to deliver for our customers as they more aggressively shift workloads to the cloud.
For example, Azure VMware Solution was instrumental in supporting global retailer Lucky Brands’ digital transformation. Leveraging the company’s past investments in Azure and VMware helped the retailer accelerate its cloud migration to minimize IT costs and ultimately improve the in-store and online shopping experience.

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Perhaps unsurprisingly after a year like 2020, the disaster recovery capabilities of Azure VMware Solution are gaining notoriety among customers. Amoun Pharmaceutical Company, for example, migrated its disaster recovery platform to Azure VMware Solution as part of long-term strategy to move much of its operations to the cloud.

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For pharmaceutical companies, the pressure to deliver new treatments and expand into new markets, while complying with government regulations, requires a nonstop effort. Integral to success is adopting the right technologies to streamline product research, manufacturing and the overall administration of everyday activities. Amoun Pharmaceutical, headquartered in Egypt, is no exception.

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Virtual Cloud Network
While the progress we’ve made on the cloud infrastructure side is substantial, perhaps the most exciting work we’ve taken on this year is in networking.
As employees transition to a distributed model, optimizing app performance and better securing services at the edge is paramount. We’re collaborating with Microsoft in several ways to help our mutual customers deliver a reliable, consistent experience at the edge.
First, we were an initial launch partner for Azure Virtual WAN. Next, we achieved our status as a Microsoft 365 networking partner. This validates that VMware SD-WAN aligns with <a href="https://aka.ms/pnc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Microsoft 365 network connectivity principles</a>. Finally, last year, VMware began working with Microsoft on solutions for <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-partners-with-the-industry-to-unlock-new-5g-scenarios-with-azure-edge-zones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Azure Edge Zones and Azure Private Edge Zones</a>. VMware is the only Azure Edge Zones “public preview” SD-WAN partner with complete automation and Azure portal integration and available to customers for trials.
Today, we announced the integration of VMware SD-WAN in Azure Virtual WAN Hub. The result is an offering that natively integrates the customizable routing intelligence of Azure Virtual WAN with the optimized last-mile connectivity of VMware SD-WAN. This integration provides the following benefits to enterprises of all sizes. This integration will automate and simplify deployment, improve application performance and improve security.
<a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/velocloud/2021/03/03/native-connectivity-of-vmware-sd-wan-in-azure-virtual-wan-delivers-simplicity-performance-and-automation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Read this blog</a> and learn about all the ways that VMware has customers’ Azure Networking needs covered.
Digital Workspace
The abrupt and massive shift to remote work drove demand for desktop virtualization. As the workplace continues to evolve, it will continue to play an important role in supporting a distributed workforce both today and in the future.
Many organizations are taking advantage of cloud-based desktop virtualization platforms like VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop to ease management of these workloads and deliver a consistent user experience.
For example, Ficohsa Group experienced a 15% drop in productivity when COVID hit as they were forced to send employees home without proper tools to work. Ficohsa’s IT team turned to Horizon Cloud on Azure to rapidly address its contact center&#8217;s need to maintain operations and reduce the potential impact to the business. Currently, more than 800 employees at Ficohsa across Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Panama branches use Horizon Cloud on Azure to work effectively from home.

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“We needed to implement a solution that, as soon as possible, would generate income that would help us to be able to keep our employees,” said Carlos Molinero, Ficohsa’s IT manager. “We had a large volume of requests from customers, and we had to give them a favorable response time.”

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Last year, <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2020/03/windows-virtual-desktop-support.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we announced</a> the general availability of Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure Support for Windows Virtual Desktop. Developed as a service on Azure, <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/horizon-cloud-virtual-desktops.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure</a> has been helping customers deploy virtual desktop environments for nearly three years. When Windows Virtual Desktop was announced, VMware and Microsoft worked together to extend the functionality of Windows Virtual Desktop to Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure.
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This collaboration makes <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/partners" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VMware an approved Windows Virtual Desktop provider</a>, enabling customers to have access to a modern, cloud-native platform that delivers enterprise-class features. Because Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure is part of the VMware Horizon Service, administrators can now manage all their Horizon environments from the same pane of glass as their Horizon service.
More recently, <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2020/09/vmware-horizon-now-runs-on-microsoft-azure-vmware-solution.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we announced</a> that Horizon now runs on Azure VMware Solution. Customers can now extend the power of Horizon and vSphere to Azure. As a result, they can easily move on-premises Horizon deployments to Azure as part of a cloud migration or transform their Horizon environment into an elastic hybrid and multi-cloud desktop virtualization platform that can help them conquer the challenges of today’s fluctuating workplace.
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We also drove integration between VMware Carbon Black and Azure Sentinel. Specifically, the VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard connector was developed to enable customers to easily connect all Carbon Black Endpoint Standard security solution logs with Azure Sentinel, view dashboards, create custom alerts and improve investigation.
Join Us at Microsoft Ignite Spring 2021
The future is bright for VMware and Microsoft and we look forward to connecting with customers at Ignite. While we won’t be together in person, you can join any of these exciting sessions our team is facilitating.
Breakout Session: Learn How to Connect VDI Users to VMware Horizon with Azure VMware Solution and VMware SD-WAN (On-Demand)
Speakers:
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<li>Gabe Knuth (<a href="https://twitter.com/gabeknuth?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@gabeknuth</a>), senior product line manager, VMware Horizon</li>
<li>Jay Thontakudi, senior product marketing manager, VMware SD-WAN</li>
<li>Trevor Davis (<a href="https://twitter.com/vtrevordavis?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@vTrevorDavis</a>), Global Black Belt, Azure VMware Solution at Microsoft</li>
</ul>
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Ask the Experts: Connecting VDI Users to VMware Horizon with Azure VMware Solution and VMware SD-WAN (Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. EST)
Speakers:
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<li>Jeremiah Megie (<a href="https://twitter.com/vmegie?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@vMegie</a>), senior technical marketing architect, Azure VMware Solution</li>
<li>Hilko Lantinga (<a href="https://twitter.com/hilkolantinga?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HilkoLantinga</a>), staff end-user computing architect, VMware Horizon</li>
<li>Tejbir Batth, senior staff solution architect, VMware SD-WAN</li>
<li>Paul Ford (<a href="https://twitter.com/birdsofbmore?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@birdsofbmore</a>), director, business development, cloud and infrastructure partners</li>
</ul>
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Tech Chat: Running VMware Natively on Azure with Azure VMware Solution (Wednesday, March 3, 2021, 5:00 – 5:30 p.m. EST)
Speakers:
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<li>Jeremiah Megie (<a href="https://twitter.com/vmegie?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@vMegie</a>), senior technical marketing architect</li>
<li>Jeffrey Moore, senior staff cloud solutions architect, Azure VMware Solution</li>
<li>Anthony Wilson, senior director, Azure VMware Solution</li>
</ul>
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VMware Secure Access Service Edge Platform Adds New Capabilities to Empower Organizations to Intelligently Manage and Better Secure Access to Applications and Information
PALO ALTO, Calif.—VMworld 2020—This week at <a href="https://www.vmworld.com/en/index.html">VMworld 2020</a>, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) is announcing VMware Future Ready Workforce solutions to provide exceptional workforce experiences, end-to-end Zero Trust security controls, and simplified management. The Future Ready Workforce solutions combine VMware Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Digital Workspace and Endpoint Security capabilities to help IT manage and optimize more secure access to any app, on any cloud, from any device while providing a simple, high performant, and a safer user experience for the distributed workforce.
“Organizations are navigating one of the most significant disruptions of our generation. These challenges will accelerate a shift to cloud-centric strategies, like SASE, that address the requirements of enabling people to work from anywhere,” said Rajiv Ramaswami, chief operating officer, products and cloud services, VMware. “The VMware Future Ready Workforce solutions help businesses enable their people to work from anywhere with intrinsic security, delightful end-user experiences and lower operational complexity.”
SASE: An Emerging Architecture for Unifying Networking and Security in the Cloud
Legacy networking and security approaches lack the automation, cloud scale and intrinsic security needed to connect and protect apps, data, and users across a globally distributed business fabric. The VMware SASE Platform converges cloud networking, cloud security and zero trust network access with best in class web security to deliver flexibility, agility, and scalability for enterprises of all sizes. It is a cloud-first offering that delivers application quality assurance, intrinsic security, and operational simplicity, and is ideal for organizations that are supporting a work from anywhere workforce.
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<li>Industry-leading SD-WAN – VMware has been positioned as a leader in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure three consecutive years for its SD-WAN solution(1). The VMware SD-WAN global network has now been expanded to more than 2,700 cloud service nodes across 130 points of presence (POPs). The new VMware Edge Network Intelligence gives IT teams added visibility and telemetry into the end-user experience as applications are accessed from anywhere, and application traffic traverses many different networks. The Dell EMC SD-WAN Solution powered by VMware has also been expanded to include built-in LTE to support mobile clinics / temporary sites as well as higher reliability for work from home.</li>
<li>Industry-Leading Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) – <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/velocloud/2020/06/16/vmware-sd-wan-workspace-one-coming-together-to-provide-a-global-zero-trust-service/">VMware Secure Access</a> is a ZTNA service that combines VMware Workspace ONE and VMware SD-WAN into a single, cloud-hosted offering that enables more secure, optimized, and high-performance access for remote and mobile users. VMware has been positioned as a leader in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Unified Endpoint Management three consecutive years for its Workspace ONE solution(2).</li>
<li>Best-in-Class Cloud &#038; Web Security – VMware is partnering with leading companies to provide customers flexibility and choice in meeting their cloud and web security requirements.
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<li>The new VMware Cloud Web Security service will integrate Menlo Security’s best-in-class secure web gateway (SWG), cloud access service broker (CASB), Data Loss Prevention, sandbox, and remote browser isolation capabilities natively into the VMware SASE solution. VMware Cloud Web Security will be sold and supported by VMware, with a single management interface and integrated back end operations, offering customers of all sizes an easy to deploy and ready to use solution.</li>
<li>VMware and Zscaler announced an expanded strategic relationship to enable enterprises to combine VMware SD-WAN and VMware Secure Access with Zscaler Internet Access into a best of breed SASE solution. VMware and Zscaler will join forces to support the needs of the world&#8217;s most demanding enterprise organizations.</li>
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<li>Integrated Next-Gen Firewall as a Service – The VMware NSX Firewall is a stateful Layer 7 firewall that will be integrated into the VMware SASE Platform for cloud-delivered firewall as a service in both single-tenanted and multi-tenanted deployment options. This will complement the firewall capabilities of the existing VMware SD-WAN solution today. Forrester Research recently categorized VMware as one of five “large” firewall vendors in their report, Now Tech: Enterprise Firewalls, Q1 2020(3).</li>
</ul>
“The pandemic created market dynamics that require organizations to transform their IT infrastructure to meet the business needs of the new normal. Having an adaptable and flexible approach to connecting and securing access to corporate resources can be the difference between success and failure,” said Jay Chaudhry, chairman and CEO of Zscaler. “Zscaler and VMware have a longstanding partnership of delivering best-in-class networking and security solutions for large global enterprises. We are extending this relationship to combine our proven, industry-leading solutions so customers can accelerate adoption of SASE and not have to compromise on networking or security.”
“With the transition to remote work, and an accelerating migration to SaaS, the traditional corporate network perimeter has evaporated. The Internet is the new corporate network and the new branch is an employees’ home or mobile device. Networks and security are being totally reimagined and rearchitected as the future of work is being transformed,” said Amir Ben-Efraim, CEO, Menlo Security. “That’s why we’re teaming with VMware to build the Menlo’s Cloud Secure Web Gateway Platform into the VMware Cloud Web Security service. We are bringing together our leading-edge secure cloud security platform, built on our unique Isolation Core™ technology with the VMware SASE platform to better protect customers against the most sophisticated and prevalent attacks such as phishing, ransomware and malicious content.”
A Vision for the Future of Work with a Focus on Security and Employee Experience
The global pandemic has changed the future of work forever. According to <a href="https://www.vmware.com/learn/655785_REG.html?cid=7012H000001KQGx&#038;src=af_5f625a4896fa1">VMware research</a>, 42% of global employees surveyed say the ability to work remotely is a prerequisite to their job, not just a perk. 90% say that it is the responsibility of the employer to ensure employees have appropriate access to digital tools to enable remote work(4). However, enabling a distributed workforce is fraught with challenges ranging from remote employee on-boarding, visibility and compliance, security, employee safety, and more.
To address these challenges, VMware Workspace Security combines industry-leading unified endpoint management and endpoint security platform to enable customers to leverage the power of big data to provide comprehensive endpoint visibility as well as actionable insights in conjunction with data-driven prevention technology through a single dashboard. Today, VMware announces additional <a href="http://blogs.vmware.com/euc/2020/09/vmworld-2020-workspace-one-keynote-recap.html">Workspace ONE</a> and Workspace Security offerings available to effectively and efficiently better secure devices, and are easy to deploy, manage, and scale including:
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<li>VMware Workspace Security Remote – Combines industry-leading unified endpoint management (UEM), endpoint security, and remote IT support into an integrated solution to better manage and protect Mac and Windows 10 devices. While InfoSec teams focus on preventing, detecting, and responding to threats, IT teams enable  broader compliance and help to operationalize security updates. Workspace Security Remote brings the two teams, technologies, and consoles closer together to enhance overall device health, provide Zero Trust access and efficiently automate threat response.</li>
<li>VMware Workspace Security VDI – Integrates VMware Horizon and VMware Carbon Black Cloud into a single unified solution that helps security and IT teams deliver highly secure virtual desktops and applications. Workspace Security VDI goes beyond legacy solutions as it uniquely integrates Carbon Black technology directly into the VMware vSphere Hypervisor and VMtools to deliver an agentless approach with improved anti-tamper capabilities, audit, and remediation, and uses behavioral detection to protect against ransomware and file less malware.</li>
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Customer Commentary
Angel MedFlight Worldwide Air Ambulance Services is a full-service medical transportation provider of air ambulance, ground ambulance and commercial medical escort for critically ill and injured patients.
“Now more than ever, patients across the country need safe medical flights for specialty care. Our air ambulances provide a safe, clean environment to transport patients to the right level of care,” said Paul Green, chief development officer at Angel MedFlight. “The sudden shift to an all-remote work world would have been challenging without Workspace ONE. It allowed us to transition quickly, as every employee was simply able to take home their Apple Mac mini and immediately keep working, with highly secure access to all the apps they need to help transport our patients. Workspace ONE helps us completely change the way IT works in the office. And ultimately that makes it easier for the flight crews who are caring for patients.”
Dow is a global leader in material science with plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings, and silicones businesses that deliver a broad range of differentiated science-based products and solutions for its customers.
“During the DowDuPont merger in 2017, we chose VMware’s VDI solutions to provide temporary system access to employees until we could spin out into three separate companies: Dow, DuPont, and Corteva. Given the complexity of the merger, reliability of system access across the companies was critical going from a baseline usage of 4k users and quickly scaling to 18k users,” said Paul Kline, IT global director at Dow. “I’m pleased to say that VMware consistently met our performance and reliability expectations. While site separations were still underway, COVID-19 exploded, and all three companies shifted non-essential workers to working from home. VMware’s VDI solutions were instrumental in enabling continued system access as transitioning employees shifted to working from home practically overnight.”
Lumen enables enterprises to acquire, analyze and act on data, adopt emerging technologies, and take advantage of the opportunities of the 4th Industrial Revolution.
“Lumen helps enterprises modernize their networks and strengthen security to reduce the complexity and risks of digital transformation. Our customers look to us to deliver solutions that help them adapt and thrive in virtually any business condition,” said Paul Savill, senior vice president, enterprise products and services at Lumen Technologies. “Working with VMware, we further expand our portfolio of networking and security capabilities that can help enterprises protect and empower employees working from anywhere. With the new VMware SASE platform our customers will have access to a cloud-delivered solution to more securely access applications that is optimized for branch, home and work-from-anywhere users.”
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is the world’s leading comprehensive cancer treatment and research center.
“We have partnered with VMware for its SD-WAN solution,” said Emil Patel, Director of IT at MD Anderson Cancer Center. “We deployed thousands of VMware devices to extend the same level of user experience to the home as if our employees were working onsite. We continue expanding WFH initiatives in these difficult times of COVID-19.” Patel who will be presenting in the following sessions at VMworld: VCNC2919 <a href="https://my.vmworld.com/widget/vmware/vmworld2020/catalog?tab.deliveryfordisplay=1597089771221001YGg0&#038;search=vcnc2919">“Prepare for the New Normal of Work from Anywhere”</a>  and VCN2799 <a href="https://my.vmworld.com/widget/vmware/vmworld2020/catalog?tab.deliveryfordisplay=1597089771221001YGg0&#038;search=vcn2799">“Solutions Keynote: Virtual Cloud Network – The Network for your Future Ready Business.”</a>
Availability
VMware Workspace Security Remote and VMware Workspace Security VDI are available today. VMware Edge Network Intelligence is expected to be available in VMware’s Fiscal Q3 FY21, which ends on October 30, 2020. VMware Cloud Web Security is expected to be available in VMware’s Fiscal Q1 FY22, and NSX Firewall as a Service for the VMware SASE Platform is expected to be available in FY22.
1-Gartner, Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, September 2020
2-Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Unified Endpoint Management, August 2020
3-Source: VMware is 1 of 5 “large” firewall vendors (with  greater than $500m in annual revenue) in the Forrester Research report, Now Tech: Enterprise Firewalls, Q1 2020, March 2020
4-Source: “The New Remote Work Era: Trends in the Distributed Workforce,” Vanson Bourne and commissioned by VMware and Dell, June–July 2020.
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News at VMworld 2020
Read a summary of today’s news from Chris Wolf: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/go/VMworld-2020-corporate-stories-chris-wolf">VMworld 2020: Innovating with the Expectation of Change</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.vmware.com/go/vmworld-intrinsic-security-cloud-news">VMware Delivers Intrinsic Security to the World’s Digital Infrastructure</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.vmware.com/go/vmworld-multicloud-announcement">VMware Empowers Customers to Build their Multi-Cloud Future</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.vmware.com/go/vmworld-app-modernization-announcement">VMware Expands Tanzu Portfolio and Partnerships to Accelerate Customers’ Infrastructure and Application Modernization Efforts</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.vmware.com/go/vmworld-project-monterey-hybrid-cloud-news">VMware Unveils Project Monterey: Re-Imagining Hybrid Cloud Architecture to Support Next-Generation Applications</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.vmware.com/go/vmworld-networking-announcement">VMware Delivers the Next Wave of Virtual Cloud Network Innovation to Connect and Protect Today’s Distributed, Multi-Cloud Enterprise</a></li>
<li>For information on all news announcements at VMworld 2020, <a href="https://www.vmware.com/company/news/media-resources/vmworld-2020-media-kit.html">view the online media kit</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2>VMworld 2020: Innovating with the Expectation of Change</h2>
2020 has been an extraordinarily challenging year. Personally and professionally, we’ve had to find new levels of resiliency in the face of challenges to our health, environment, education, and life as we know it. From supporting COVID-19 vaccine efforts to protecting people’s safety, education, work, social and family lives, technology plays a key role in how we continue to adapt and move forward as a global community.
During this difficult time, agility has taken on new meaning. The need for organizations to quickly adapt is now measured in days, hours, or mere minutes. In this context, flexibility and agility moved to the forefront as sound design principles. We can no longer rely on “what if” contingencies alone. Instead, we need to architect for the expectation of change. To that end, the theme for VMworld 2020 is “Together, Anything is Possible.”
The VMworld 2020 announcements showcase new VMware innovations that not only help you rethink the possible, but also get there more safely with the velocity and agility required by your business’ needs.
<h2>Networking and Security</h2>
Security is front and center at VMworld—and for good reason.
Office workers, apps, data, and devices are increasingly distributed. And that creates new security, scale, and performance challenges. Of course, that’s in addition to the growing challenges we already face in our data centers and in operating across multiple clouds. Today, we announced several compelling innovations that will dramatically improve your organization’s security posture, starting with the VMware SASE Platform.
Hair pinning network traffic to enforce security policy has long been impractical. SASE makes it simple for you to bring essential network and security services near your end users, regardless of where they work. VMware SASE Platform takes advantage of VMware SD-WAN’s massive global footprint of more than 2,700 cloud service nodes across 130 points of presence (POPs).
The key components of the VMware SASE solution include:
<ul>
<li>VMware SD-WAN, our industry leading platform for transforming wide area networking.</li>
<li>Cloud Access Service Broker (CASB), Secure Web Gateway (SWG) and remote browser isolation via our new collaboration with Menlo Security. These offerings will be sold and supported by VMware.</li>
<li>VMware NSX Stateful Layer 7 Firewall SaaS offering.</li>
<li>Zero Trust Network Access, which leverages VMware SD-WAN and VMware Workspace ONE in an <a href="https://www.velocloud.com/vmware-secure-access" target="_blank" rel="noopener">integrated offering</a> to provide optimal performance and policy-based access centered on the user and device identity for each connection.</li>
<li>Edge Network Intelligence, which is the integration of the technology we acquired from Nyansa. The solution uses machine learning-based predictive analytics to ensure SLAs are met, along with providing security and visibility to end-user and IoT devices.</li>
</ul>
While the SASE announcement is big news, there are several additional security announcements that I believe you’ll find of interest:
<ul>
<li style="list-style-type: none;">
<ul>
<li>VMware Workspace Security VDI: VMware Workspace ONE Horizon and VMware Carbon Black Cloud are integrated into a single unified solution that leverages behavioral detection to protect against ransomware and file-less malware. On VMware vSphere, the solution is integrated into VMware Tools, removing the need to install and manage additional security agents.</li>
<li>VMware Workspace Security Remote: An integrated solution that provides endpoint management, endpoint security and remote IT for physical Mac and Windows 10 devices. The solution includes the next-generation antivirus, audit and remediation, and detection and response capabilities of Carbon Black Cloud. It also includes the analytics, automation, device health, orchestration, and zero-trust access of the Workspace ONE platform.</li>
<li>VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload: Agentless security for virtual machines on vSphere—the realization of the vision that we articulated at VMworld 2019. This solution makes it much easier for infrastructure operations and security operations to collaborate.
Security risk visibility is now built into VMware vCenter, providing the same visibility as seen in Carbon Black Cloud, thus streamlining collaboration and more proactive threat remediation. Security is now dynamically ingrained in the VM lifecycle as a part of VMware Tools, making security intrinsic to the infrastructure.
VMware will offer a 6-month unlimited <a href="https://www.carbonblack.com/workload-free-trial/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">free trial of VMware Carbon Black Workload Essentials</a> to all current customers with vSphere 6.5 and above, as well as VMware Cloud Foundation 4.0.
We also plan to introduce a Carbon Black Cloud module for hardening and better securing Kubernetes workloads, giving security teams policy governance and control of their Kubernetes environments.
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
 
<ul>
<li>VMware NSX Advanced Threat Prevention brings the technology from our recent Lastline acquisition to the VMware NSX Service-defined Firewall. This solution is the only purpose-built, distributed, scale-out firewall designed to protect east-west traffic across multi-cloud environments. Lastline integration into the service-defined firewall uses unsupervised and supervised machine learning to identify threats and minimize false positives, with the ability to apply virtual patches at every workload and not just at the perimeter—an industry first.</li>
</ul>
We also announced several new capabilities across our network portfolio:
<ul>
<li>VMware Container Networking with Antrea: A commercial offering consisting of signed images and binaries and full support for open source Project Antrea. VMware Container Networking with Antrea will be included in VMware NSX-T and vSphere 7 with Tanzu. While Antrea can get you started, when you look to scale container networking across clusters, NSX-T will get you there.</li>
<li>NSX-T 3.1: New API-driven advanced routing and multicast capabilities, along with automated deployment of workflows through Terraform Provider.</li>
<li>VMware vRealize Network Insight 6.0 Network Assurance and Verification: Now leverages formal verification to gather network state build and model how the network functions. The model is then used to provide continuous verification of business policies across virtual, physical, and multi-cloud networks. This allows IT and network operations to discover potential brownouts before they occur.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Multi-Cloud</h2>
As with our technology strategy, we remain focused on aligning our innovations toward a multi-cloud future that offers consistent infrastructure and operations, along with a native developer experience.
IT operations should not have barriers to managing and operating data center, multi-cloud, and edge environments. Customers should have a consistent and well-integrated set of tools and processes. Developers should also have the flexibility to use their tools and APIs of choice.
Today, VMware admins can simply provision a Kubernetes namespace to developers, and ops can manage all the underlying infrastructure considerations using their tools of choice. The same holds true for managing applications and services in public clouds.
VMware solutions help IT operations manage and monitor environments, enforce policy and automate remediations without impacting developers’ ability to use the tools and APIs offered by the cloud provider. With that as the strategic backdrop, let’s dig into our multi-cloud announcements.
<h2>Azure VMware Solution</h2>
Following the announcement that Azure VMware Solution is generally available, there is now a production VMware footprint in every major public cloud:
<ul>
<li>AWS</li>
<li>Azure</li>
<li>Google Cloud</li>
<li>IBM Cloud</li>
<li>Oracle Cloud</li>
</ul>
With the Azure VMware Solution, organizations benefit from the cost savings of Azure Hybrid Benefit, integration with Microsoft Office 365 and other native Azure services, as well as Azure console integration.
There are also several new capabilities for VMware Cloud on AWS, including:
<ul>
<li>VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery: On-demand Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) that gives you cloud economies and is backed by Amazon S3 storage. The Live Pilot Light option provides instant power-on for VMs running on VMware Cloud on AWS. The service includes several compelling features, including no VM format conversions, continuous DR health checks, built-in audit reports and optimized failbacks.</li>
<li>VMware Tanzu support: Makes it simple to extend on-premises Tanzu deployments to VMC and across clouds.</li>
<li>VMware Transit Connect: Provides any-to-any connectivity between on-premises, VMC on AWS SDDCs and AWS VPCs using AWS Transit Gateway and AWS Direct Connect Gateway.</li>
<li>New regional compliance listings (G-Cloud, HIPAA BAA, EBA) and white papers (UK NCSC 14 Principles, FISC).</li>
<li>Enhanced automation and operations: Expanded vRealize Operations, Cloud Automation, Orchestrator, Log Insight and Network Insight support.</li>
<li>Enhanced HCX capabilities: Replication Assisted vMotion, local routing for migrated VMs and migration grouping.</li>
</ul>
<h2>VMware Cloud on Dell EMC</h2>
Interest continues to grow in VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, which allows you to realize the benefit of cloud IaaS with the flexibility to run the service in your on-premises data center. VMware Cloud on Dell EMC now includes support for VMware HCX-based workload migration, making it simple to migrate VMs to the new environment.
In addition, several compliance and regulatory certifications have been achieved, including:
<ul>
<li>EU GDPR compliance</li>
<li>ISO 27001</li>
<li>ISO 27018</li>
<li>AICPA SOC 2</li>
<li>CCPA compliance</li>
</ul>
There are also many more performance, scalability and sizing options, which you can read about <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/vmc-on-dell-emc.html">here.</a>
<h2>VMware vRealize Cloud Universal</h2>
On the cloud management front, we announced VMware vRealize Cloud Universal, which combines SaaS and on-premises management software into a single subscription license. This makes it easy to switch between vRealize Cloud solutions without acquiring different licensing.
We also introduced new federation capabilities for a consistent management experience across deployments, as well as Skyline integration, which provides a single integrated workflow to proactively identify and resolve potential and existing issues.
<h2>VMware vRealize AI</h2>
Starting in 2018, we previewed Project Magna. And now in 2020, we are once again delivering on technology showcased at previous VMworld conferences. Project Magna is now generally available as VMware vRealize AI, which uses reinforcement learning to self-tune application performance.
Early adopters have seen performance improvements as high as 50% for read-and-write I/O with the read-and-write cache optimizations that vRealize AI made to their vSAN environments. Best of all, this is just the beginning.
You will see more capabilities moving forward, bringing your organization a highly intelligent, self-optimizing infrastructure.
<h2>Project Monterey Tech Preview</h2>
VMware has been pursuing SmartNIC virtualization and integration opportunities over the past couple of years.
In March 2019, we <a href="https://www.itnews.com.au/news/vmware-demos-hypervisor-running-on-a-network-card-522254" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demonstrated</a> ESXi running on a SmartNIC. And last year at VMworld, we demonstrated <a href="https://octo.vmware.com/4-hypervisors-1-server-0-nesting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">four hypervisors running simultaneously</a> on the same server with no nesting. Our vision for opportunities related to SmartNICs and composable infrastructure was further solidified at VMworld 2020 with the announcement of Project Monterey.
Applications, data, infrastructure, and security services are seeing increasingly demanding performance requirements. Simultaneously, IT organizations are looking to find greater opportunities for automation and efficiency. Project Monterey takes advantage of emergent hardware innovations to offer new approaches to hybrid cloud architecture and operations.
We’re sharing this information now to open doors for further opportunities to shape this innovation with our customers and technology partners. Leading SmartNIC vendors are already working with us on Project Monterey, which is currently centered around three key use cases:
1. Network performance and security: Consider running security services such as a L4-7 firewall on SmartNIC, decoupling it from the host platform and achieving line rate performance. Organizations can further isolate tenants, running independent workloads on SmartNICs or even run multiple network functions in isolation on the SmartNIC via isolation provided by the hypervisor (e.g., ESXi on Arm). 2. Storage performance and dynamic composition: As with networking, you have new opportunities for combinations of scale-up and scale-out architectures by taking advantage of processors on SmartNICs to accelerate a variety of storage functions, such as compression and encryption. Project Monterey will also provide further capabilities to scale storage capacity on-demand to meet performance or capacity requirements. 3. Bare metal workloads and composability: This is where Project Monterey really gets interesting. Imagine running the ESXi control plane on a SmartNIC, freeing all the x86 host cores to run other workloads, inclusive of bare metal. That allows you to run workloads on bare metal, while still being able to integrate them with core SDDC services, such as VMware vSAN and NSX. From a flexibility perspective, these options take VMware Cloud Foundation to a new level in terms of the ability to dynamically support a variety of hardware interfaces, composing infrastructure on-demand.
For an in-depth look at Project Monterey, take a look at Kit Colbert’s <a href="https://via.vmw.com/monterey" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blog post</a>.
<h2>Change Is the Game</h2>
As we look forward over the next decade, successful organizations will not just be measured on speed. More importantly, they’ll be measured on their ability to change course during unanticipated market dynamics or global events. Looking at your organization’s technology footprint, consider existing barriers that would prevent a quick pivot to a new direction.
Are your applications, data, infrastructure, security, and operational services able to quickly adapt to change?
Is change simply a matter of a software update or the ability to provision services anywhere on demand?
If not, look at the dependencies that stand in your way (e.g., proprietary hardware or APIs) and move forward with a technology strategy anchored with flexibility as the design principle.
For the last six years, we’ve remained true to our vision of helping organizations run any application on any cloud and interact with those applications from any device. Change is far from easy, and “flexibility” should not be some convenient buzzword. Together, we can make it real. Together, we can help your organization build and leverage technology for the expectation of inevitable change.
Let’s do this!

Chris Wolf

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VMworld 2020 Announcement Summary

The Save A Lot IT team faced a tough challenge after splitting away from its parent company. Here are the 10 IT principles that fueled their digital transformation, from <a href="https://www.vmware.com/solutions/sd-wan.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SD-WAN</a> to accelerating cloud innovation.
Discount grocer <a href="https://savealot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Save A Lot</a> has a powerful vision: To be America’s most loved discount retailer by adding unmatched value to local communities.
“We’re a hard discount retailer,” says Jonathan Stewart, Save A Lot’s director of IT infrastructure and software services. “Forty years ago, (Save A Lot founder) Bill Moran said, ‘I want to provide the common folk, the people that don’t make a lot of money, with fresh vegetables and fresh fruit at a discount price.’”
Fast forward to today. Now, the St. Louis, Mo.-based retail chain has over 1,000 stores and 7,000 employees in 33 U.S. states. To keep costs low for its customers, Save A Lot economizes the size of its store and variety of offerings. This helps them keep overhead low, while providing high-quality, national and private-brand products to their customers.
However, four decades in business means the company experienced challenges common to many retailers. In 2016, Save A Lot transitioned ownership from former parent company SuperValu, Inc. to private equity firm Onex Corp., a change that ushered in significant transformation for the business.
“The business went first. We started remodeling all our stores,” says Stewart.

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While the company since completed a business recapitalization and is now privately held by a number of large investors, including CDPQ, JP Morgan, Arbour Lane, Voya and Bain Capital, the need to accelerate change through the company’s IT and digital technologies has remained.
<h2>Facing a Difficult Digital Transformation</h2>
The Save A Lot IT team boiled down their daunting new reality into two primary challenges:
<ol>
<li>Slow business processes due to legacy IT systems.</li>
<li>Reliance upon legacy technology.</li>
</ol>
The largest hurdle? Save A Lot no longer owned a significant portion of its infrastructure. The IT team needed to migrate data, apps and processes securely and efficiently. And if that wasn’t difficult enough, they also had to equip stores with the modern technology needed to function in today’s digital consumer age.
“When I got to Save A Lot a year ago, I felt like I was walking into a time machine. We still have a mainframe. We still have AS/400. We still have batch jobs that are copying data from one database to another for no apparent reason. But all the laptops were Windows 10,” Stewart laughs. “You had all this legacy technology, and then you had Windows 10.”
Save A Lot’s IT team took stock of the legacy systems, market trends and customer demands to develop three key priorities:
<ol>
<li>Take ownership of the network, particularly regarding <a href="https://www.vmware.com/solutions/sd-wan.html">SD-WAN.</a></li>
<li>Accelerate the transition to the cloud.</li>
<li>Reduce costs.</li>
</ol>
These three priorities resulted in the team developing its 10 IT principles to enable their business.
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“Our customers’ experience translates into whether they come back, whether they say, ‘Hey, you’ve got to check out Save A Lot.’ This is key, all the way down to IT,” says Stewart. “Our IT consumers are also on the business side of things. So, we want to be customer-focused, even with our business partners.”

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<div id="attachment_21956" style="width: 239px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://news.vmware.com/-author/phillip-gervasi/"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-21956" loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-21956" src="https://news-editor.vmware.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Phillip_Gervasi_Contributing_Author-229x300.png" alt="A full-time solutions architect, Phil serves as a consultant to a variety of enterprise, government, and healthcare organizations. He’s also a frequent writer and podcaster on emerging technology." width="229" height="300"></a>By Phillip Gervasi, VMware Radius Contributor</div>
The <a href="https://www.networkworld.com/article/3031279/sd-wan-what-it-is-and-why-you-ll-use-it-one-day.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SD-WAN</a> (software-defined, wide-area networking) story began five or six years ago as a tale of speeds and feeds, bits and bytes. Since then, SD-WAN technology matured. And with it, real-world use cases emerged. By and large, cloud connectivity is what makes SD-WAN one of today’s hottest technologies.
<h2>Growing Cloud and SaaS Adoption</h2>
Public cloud—from providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—is no longer an interesting, emerging technology. Most organizations have some public cloud footprint today. And even if a company isn’t heavily invested in moving workloads from its own data centers into AWS, for example, chances are it uses software-as-service (SaaS) platforms like Microsoft Office 365 or Salesforce.
In a way, this means most organizations are multi-cloud. A small organization relying on Office 365 for email and productivity software, Dropbox for Teams for file sharing and AWS as a location for server backups, is using three completely separate public cloud vendors. And if you ask any of the CIOs responsible, they will tell you all of these cloud services are mission-critical to their businesses.
Yet, legacy network methods used to build high-quality connections to several public cloud providers require high-end engineering skills, advanced technical design, and often expensive direct connections. And IT organizations continue to jump these hurdles to empower their businesses with AWS, Azure and their favorite SaaS platforms.
But, there’s a better way now: <a href="https://www.vmware.com/solutions/sd-wan.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SD-WAN</a>.
<h2>Why SD-WAN?</h2>
Because SD-WAN is software-driven and controller-based, it sees the entire network as one system, including the organization’s cloud presence. An instance in AWS or Azure is just another node on the network, governed by centralized policy. That makes standing up a new connection to the public cloud:
<ul>
<li>Faster.</li>
<li>Easier.</li>
<li>More secure.</li>
<li>And often less expensive than the traditional, manual way.</li>
</ul>
It doesn’t matter if IT is virtualizing an SD-WAN router to run in AWS or deploying purpose-built, cloud-native SD-WAN software in Azure. Public cloud resources appear as simply another branch location within the SD-WAN, making it very simple to manage and secure.
An SD-WAN is much more agile than a legacy wide-area network. New sites, such as the temporary healthcare facilities constructed to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, can be spun up in a matter of minutes. An SD-WAN doesn’t rely on any type of underlying connectivity. So, standing up a new site with a 4G link and broadband means an organization easily accommodates rapidly changing needs.
Moreover, because an SD-WAN can be built on inexpensive commodity internet circuits, an enterprise network can be extended to remote employees working from their homes or temporary facilities. By aggregating several inexpensive links into one logical connection, an SD-WAN can provide high-quality connectivity to a company’s resources much better than simply connecting over a remote access VPN. And this includes real-time traffic, such as enterprise voice and video.
<h2>Routing, Security and Connectivity Benefits</h2>
Centralizing policy has wide-ranging benefits to organizations—both in terms of the routing and security. And SD-WAN aggregates multiple active connections to provide high-quality connectivity, even over the public internet. SD-WAN also simplifies intelligent path selection, which isn’t a trivial technology. For example, protocols such as the VMware <a href="https://www.velocloud.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">VeloCloud</a> Dynamic MultiPath Optimization (DMPO) enable an SD-WAN to always choose the very best path for traffic destined to a public cloud provider.
Though the term “public cloud” encompasses SaaS, connecting these platforms is different from connecting to AWS, Azure or GCP. An organization can’t instantiate its own router in Office 365, Zoom, Salesforce or other SaaS platforms. So, how can IT teams ensure high-quality connectivity and security to these services?
Mature SD-WAN vendors directly addressed this problem. And they did this not by instantiating their own SD-WAN routers in the Microsoft Office 365 cloud, but also creating software that provides exceptional connectivity to those SaaS resources.
In addition to great connectivity, access to cloud resources must be secure—especially during the pandemic. The increase in remote workers compounded with a shift to the public cloud gives cybercriminals more attack vectors to exploit. However, centralizing policy with an SD-WAN also means centralizing an organization’s security posture. This includes certificate management, access control, data loss protection and advanced firewall services like day-zero threat detection, intrusion detection and prevention.
An SD-WAN consolidates these security features into one service stack rather than through many disparate platforms. And this makes network security less burdensome on a network operations team. It’s also much easier to keep both consistent and in-line with a company’s security standards.

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<h2>App-Aware Routing Optimizes Experiences</h2>
Application-aware routing, enabled by an SD-WAN router, can:
<ul>
<li>Recognize traffic destined to a particular SaaS provider.</li>
<li>Prioritize it.</li>
<li>Route it differently than other traffic.</li>
</ul>
This alone may be sufficient to ensure great connectivity, but SD-WAN vendors go further by partnering with SaaS providers. Together, they team up to steer SaaS-destined traffic to the geographically closest SaaS points-of-presence to the branch. These two methods of dealing with SaaS traffic mean:
<ol>
<li>SD-WAN makes connecting to SaaS resources easier for IT.</li>
<li>The technology outperforms legacy WANs when it comes to providing a better application experience.</li>
</ol>
The SD-WAN story that started half a decade ago has matured and expanded into more compelling use cases, some of which have accelerated due to the pandemic. Today, SD-WAN has moved beyond bits and bytes to powering our cloud world of connectivity.

Attend this webinar to find out about the different options, what they include, how they can help with work from home scenarios, and very importantly, how you can act now to arm your workforce with what they need to keep your business running.

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