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MANAGED SASE SERVICES : DOES ONE SIZE FIT ALL ?
Jacob Chacko , Regional Director – Middle East , Saudi and South Africa at Aruba , a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company , explains why service providers should carefully consider the benefits of leveraging the integration of a best of breed SD- WAN platform together with a best of breed cloud security .
When we go shopping for new clothes , we often select different brands for shoes , shirts , or trousers . We rarely select a single brand for every clothing item simply because we want the best brand quality for each of those three categories .
Similarly , when it comes to technology , why would we not want the best choice for networking and security technology platforms when it comes to SASE ? Does one size fit all ?
SASE is the term Gartner coined to describe the Secure Access Service Edge framework that has emerged to define the convergence of WAN and network security functions into a single , clouddelivered model that will support enterprise Digital Transformation initiatives .
One of the key foundations of a SASE framework is a robust SD-WAN component . So how should
Service providers must consider offering multiple managed options to enterprises who may be at different stages of their SASE journey .
enterprises and service providers evaluate and assess the networking and security technology components of a multi-vendor or single vendor SASE technology vendor solution ?
The promise of SASE
For most enterprises , software-defined Wide Area Networks ( SD-WAN ) have emerged as the technology of choice to evolve existing legacy WANs to a network connectivity architecture that is focused on supporting
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