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Jacob Chacko , Regional Director – Middle
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This means partnering with their networking and security technology vendors to leverage open APIs , automation , provisioning / deployment integrations and service chaining between security and SD-WAN vendors to help simplify the service integration and an eventual path towards SASE . a cloud-first environment – where the majority of business applications are hosted in the cloud rather than the data centre .
Advanced SD-WAN solutions can reduce networking complexity , improve application performance , and enable more efficient connectivity between users and applications residing in the cloud . Depending on the solution , they can also be deployed by organisations either as DIY ( do it yourself ) or as part of a managed SD-WAN service from a managed service provider .
The promise of SASE for service providers is to make it easier to deliver a converged or bundled managed networking and security service . But service providers will likely need to revamp their existing siloed ( separate security and separate networking ) organisational structures to be able to deliver integrated managed networking and security services to enterprise customers , which is really what SASE is all about .
By adopting a SASE architecture on top of their existing transport services , service providers strive to create a managed networking and security practice that can support their customers ’ requirements . This enables service providers to accelerate time-to-market with new differentiated services .
By owning the transport providing the connectivity to the SASE framework , service providers add value to the end-to-end service . Ultimately , the goal of SASE is to deliver a better end-user quality of experience and security for cloud-hosted applications .
A split approach to deployments
Because SASE deployments are in the early stage of the adoption lifecycle , the market will likely see a clear split in approaches . For example , small and medium size enterprises are more likely to be attracted to the all-inone managed SASE offerings , where simplicity and ‘ onestop shopping ’ take priority over advanced capabilities .
On the other hand , large regional or global enterprises will remain unwilling to compromise
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