5 Reasons Why Businesses Need VMware SD-WAN

The network infrastructure status quo for many businesses iscomplex, costly and highly dependent on legacy technologies and services justto achieve basic connectivity. Meanwhile, we are seeing a significant move to cloud-basedapplications and services, from Office 365 and videoconferencing services tocloud-based security solutions, which increases the need for not just branch-to-branchconnectivity, but for networking solutions that can offer significant levels ofimproved application performance, reliability and security to support these newapplications.

This makes it obvious that traditional networks can nolonger support businesses that are moving to the cloud. SD-WAN cansignificantly benefit organizations, whether they are a single-branch business,or a business with many offices and locations across a region, a country or theworld.

How VMware SD-WANdelivers quality remote access

And now enters VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud, a WAN Edge platformfor optimal, reliable, secure and automated access to traditional and newapplications, in the on-premises data centre or cloud, delivering enterprisequality access from remote branches to home offices. VMware SD-WAN has beennamed a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure twoyears in a row and has been adopted by hundreds of companies around the worldas they seek to rapidly modernize their WAN and realize their cloud adoptioninitiatives.

VMware SD-WAN delivers many benefits and capabilities, but let'sreview five reasons that businesses need to adopt VMware SD-WAN:

1.Reliable Connectivity

As companies look to take advantage of cloud-based services, they increasingly find their current network infrastructure functions as a bottleneck. This bottleneck is due to issues related to traditional WANs, such as expensive MPLS circuits, slow maintenance and deployment times, poor cloud connectivity and application performance.

VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud leveragespath optimization and overlay technologies that allow businesses to superchargetheir network and provide redundancy and resiliency. This approach leverages asecure overlay, helping companies manage a mixture of different broadband, LTEand MPLS circuits within their network infrastructure to eliminatebusiness-impacting network outages and ensure high-quality applicationperformance.

2.Simplicity

On traditional WAN systems, configuring new or existing infrastructure requires adjustments that may not properly work. However, VMware simplifies WAN operations with a cloud-based VMware SD-WAN Orchestrator that enables centralized management and orchestration of SD-WAN at scale. Networking edge appliances can simply be shipped to remote branch locations and plugged in by non-technical staff. Once the unit comes online, IT resources can manage it remotely and gain insight into utilization, performance and security, all through a single pane of glass experience.

3.Agility

VMware SD-WAN allows businesses to accommodate traffic from mobile applications, video and cloud computing while limiting the resources required to run and manage the network. This agility is achieved by multiple elements of the solution, but it can be mainly achieved through leveraging VMware SD-WAN's cloud-hosted global network of scalable gateways. This cloud gateway model provide direct access to the cloud, from all over the world, eliminating backhaul of traffic to the data centre over expensive and constrained private links from branches, while being scalable enough to support all traffic spikes originated from the branch.

4.Enhanced Performance

Network traffic and availability conflicts will increase when more applications are migrated to the cloud. VMware SD-WAN's path optimization technology leverages deep application recognition to detect critical application traffic. This ensures important applications receive preferred routing over other, non-critical apps, like Netflix or YouTube, ensuring a performance boost for your critical functions. In addition, the embedded link qualification and remediation feature helps VMware SD-WAN automatically maintain quality of experience (QoE) even over degraded link conditions. And finally, using VMware Cloud Gateways deliver optimized resource and application access to IaaS and SaaS through a unique control point strategically located in the proximity of all major internet PoPs.

5.Visibility

By leveraging the global footprint of VMware SD-WAN Orchestrators hosted in the cloud, IT professionals will have access to a single platform that provides increased visibility for their networks more simply and effectively.

SD-WAN is nowessential for success

In summary, SD-WAN offers businesses a host of significantbenefits, including simplified monitoring and management, improved network andapplication performance, easy installation and, of course, that seamlessscalability. This emerging networking technology has rapidly become acompetitive differentiator between companies adopting SD-WAN and those saddledwith an obsolete network. In short, SD-WAN is now essential for success.

CDW and VMware have the shared vision of enabling enterprises around the world in their digital transformation journey with the best networking solutions. We are working together to deliver dynamic, globally scalable WAN solutions that enable application performance, network availability and accelerate transformation at the network edge.

If you'd like to learn more about the VMware SD-WAN solution, check out the VMware SD-WAN landing page.