Deploying an SD-WAN proof-of-concept is easy. But what happens when you want to take it to a hundred or more sites? Where are the case studies? Tom Hollingsworth looks at how Acadia Healthcare took SD-WAN to 60% of their sites and what lessons they learned from their experience.
FutureWAN 18
Network Orchestration, Dong Ngo, and App Steering in Gestalt News 18.10
In this iteration of Gestalt News:
– We spoke with Dong Ngo about his IT Origin story, starting in Vietnam and ending up in Silicon Valley
– Tom Hollingsworth looks at top-down orchestration and bottom-up automation
– Larry Smith breaks down how SD-WAN can be used to better steer SaaS-based applications
SD-WAN: Steering Apps In The Right Direction
Do your SaaS-based applications currently get steered in the most optimal way possible? If they do, is this a time consuming and manual effort? Or is there currently an automation expert who is crafting all of the components together to optimally direct the traffic? Chances are that the answer to these previous questions is “NO”. And if your answer is “YES” then are you already utilizing SD-WAN? If the answer is again “NO” then I encourage you to read on.
Moving To The Cloud – Network Nightmare or Dream?
It’s not exactly news that enterprise businesses are moving workloads to the cloud; pretty much any analyst firm you poke will agree that cloud adoption will keep increasing in 2018, whether as IaaS (Infrastructure As A Service) or Saas (Software As A Service), and maybe even a little PaaS (Platform As A Service) . While the benefits and risks of the cloud itself are fairly well established at this point, enterprises are still struggling to adjust to the new demands being made of the WAN (Wide Area Network). This post examines some of the challenges introduced by IaaS and SaaS, and looks at ways to improve the user experience, both during service migration and after the workload is fully moved to the cloud.
Continuing the SD-WAN Discussion At FutureWAN
SD-WAN is a hot topic for enterprises of all shapes. What is SD-WAN all about today? And where is it headed in the future? Tom Hollingsworth explores SD-WAN and highlights a key virtual conference coming soon that will help you get all the info you need.