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(This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/mother99/jacksonholdingcompany.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Cloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u200b<\/p>\n Cloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and time consuming. \u00a0<\/p>\n Enter the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), a powerful, abstracted software layer that serves as a centralized control plane to enable organizations to automate, simplify, and optimize their network transport for any application to any cloud.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Are you ready to steer traffic on demand, based on centralized policy, network insights, and predictive AI, and further enhanced by end-to-end visibility? Do you want to be more proactive instead of reactive in how you manage this traffic and run your network? If so, read on!\u00a0<\/p>\n Enterprises accelerated their transition to cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) during the pandemic to support their distributed workforces at home and on the go. This has seen multicloud environments become the norm. Our 2023 Global Networking Trends Report<\/a> found that 92% of respondents used more than one public cloud in their infrastructure and 69% used over five SaaS applications. \u00a0<\/p>\n Connecting to different providers and network layers in multicloud environments has led to a patchwork of infrastructure and management controllers. This results in more complexity and cost for organizations looking to ensure a secure, consistent user experience. \u00a0<\/p>\n Let\u2019s look at these networking layers and why IT simplification is crucial in connecting today\u2019s highly mobile workforce to business-critical applications.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n In the first mile, users access services from offices and campuses near data centers or remotely, from uncontrolled facilities using various devices (Figure 1). Workers connect through Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), broadband, Wi-Fi, and cellular. Remote workers use their internet service provider (ISP) to connect them to concentrators at regional peering points of presence (PoPs). \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Figure 1. New architecture for the distributed workplace\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The middle mile is the long-haul transport layer that has grown in complexity with the migration to the cloud. It serves as the connective tissue between first and last mile, interconnecting different types of cloud services, cloud applications (e.g., SaaS, IaaS), and data centers. Specialized middle-mile providers like Equinix and Megaport provide cross-connects between business networks, the internet, and cloud providers globally. Adding to the array of choices in the middle mile, public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer customers the ability to access their apps with site-to-cloud, site-to-site, region-to-region, cloud-to-cloud, and other connection options with different quality of experience metrics. \u00a0<\/p>\n The last mile is the connection between the data center or service provider and the end user\u2019s device and application.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Using applications distributed across multiple clouds and SaaS, workers have widely different experiences depending on their location. Adverse and unpredictable amounts of downtime, latency, and speed, for example, can threaten business continuity. So, establishing reliable, consistent, high-quality experiences is very much on the minds of enterprise IT managers today.\u00a0<\/p>\n More than half (53%) of respondents to the 2023 Global Networking Trends Report said they are prioritizing integration with cloud providers to improve connectivity to cloud-based apps from distributed locations. Additionally, 49% said they are using SD-WAN integrations across providers and multiple clouds to provide a simpler, consistent, optimized, and secure IT and application experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n SD-WAN unifies the entire WAN backbone and brings secure, private, cloud-aware connectivity that is agnostic to all kinds of link types, providers, and geographies (Figure 2). \u00a0<\/p>\n \u202f <\/a><\/p>\n Figure 2. SD-WAN integrations with IaaS, SaaS, and middle-mile providers are vital for a better IT and user experience\u00a0<\/p>\n With SD-WAN providing connectivity between cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, real-time traffic steering based on centralized policy and end-to-end analytics is possible. Network admins can be proactive instead of reactive, changing traffic parameters on demand, according to application, congestion, location, user, device, and other factors.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tamimi Markets, a major Saudi Arabian supermarket chain, was having trouble providing a consistent experience to users at markets, warehouses, branch offices, and remote locations. Dependent on three ISPs for end-to-end connectivity in a hub-and-spoke architecture, they moved to a cloud architecture to eliminate the need to backhaul network traffic through the headquarters and in the process quadrupled bandwidth speeds. An integrated SD-WAN enables them to steer their traffic over a variety of link options based on network demand, cost, and quality of experience metrics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Asian food manufacturer Universal Robina Corporation shifted to a multicloud architecture to support remote workers after the pandemic. It uses SD-WAN to connect users and apps to its multicloud architecture securely, wherever they are located. The multicloud integrations enable secure connectivity from branches to the Microsoft Azure cloud and with Microsoft 365 for a superior application experience with informed network routing (INR) that enables the exchange of telemetry between Cisco and Microsoft while providing full visibility to Universal Robina\u2019s IT team.\u00a0<\/p>\n Another benefit of SD-WAN is that it is one half of a converged secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. SASE radically simplifies security and networking through unified and centralized management to connect users to applications in complex and highly distributed environments. By combining SD-WAN networking infrastructure and routing traffic through a cloud-centric security service edge (SSE) solution, companies can maintain the same level of security for cloud users as data center users (Figure 3).\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Figure 3. SD-WAN is foundational to a SASE architecture\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s a multicloud world and SD-WAN\u2015with tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers\u2015is the connective tissue from first mile to last, managing complexity and driving agility throughout sprawling multicloud environments. <\/p>\n What\u2019s more, SD-WAN multicloud integrations bring together each organization\u2019s many different types of transport connections and policies under one management system for secure, consistent service. <\/p>\n The cost savings from automation and the ability to steer traffic on demand with optimized routing are further compelling reasons why SD-WAN continues to grow in popularity. Once established, these features enable IT departments to build an optimized global network in a simplified, fully automated way, within hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0With tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, SD-WAN multicloud integration is an antidote to the management complexity and lack of agility of sprawling multicloud environments.\u00a0\u00a0Read More<\/a>\u00a0Cisco Blogs\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" <\/p>\n Cloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \u200b<\/p>\n Cloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and time consuming. \u00a0<\/p>\n Enter the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), a powerful, abstracted software layer that serves as a centralized control plane to enable organizations to automate, simplify, and optimize their network transport for any application to any cloud.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Are you ready to steer traffic on demand, based on centralized policy, network insights, and predictive AI, and further enhanced by end-to-end visibility? Do you want to be more proactive instead of reactive in how you manage this traffic and run your network? If so, read on!\u00a0<\/p>\n Enterprises accelerated their transition to cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) during the pandemic to support their distributed workforces at home and on the go. This has seen multicloud environments become the norm. Our 2023 Global Networking Trends Report<\/a> found that 92% of respondents used more than one public cloud in their infrastructure and 69% used over five SaaS applications. \u00a0<\/p>\n Connecting to different providers and network layers in multicloud environments has led to a patchwork of infrastructure and management controllers. This results in more complexity and cost for organizations looking to ensure a secure, consistent user experience. \u00a0<\/p>\n Let\u2019s look at these networking layers and why IT simplification is crucial in connecting today\u2019s highly mobile workforce to business-critical applications.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n In the first mile, users access services from offices and campuses near data centers or remotely, from uncontrolled facilities using various devices (Figure 1). Workers connect through Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), broadband, Wi-Fi, and cellular. Remote workers use their internet service provider (ISP) to connect them to concentrators at regional peering points of presence (PoPs). \u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Figure 1. New architecture for the distributed workplace\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The middle mile is the long-haul transport layer that has grown in complexity with the migration to the cloud. It serves as the connective tissue between first and last mile, interconnecting different types of cloud services, cloud applications (e.g., SaaS, IaaS), and data centers. Specialized middle-mile providers like Equinix and Megaport provide cross-connects between business networks, the internet, and cloud providers globally. Adding to the array of choices in the middle mile, public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer customers the ability to access their apps with site-to-cloud, site-to-site, region-to-region, cloud-to-cloud, and other connection options with different quality of experience metrics. \u00a0<\/p>\n The last mile is the connection between the data center or service provider and the end user\u2019s device and application.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Using applications distributed across multiple clouds and SaaS, workers have widely different experiences depending on their location. Adverse and unpredictable amounts of downtime, latency, and speed, for example, can threaten business continuity. So, establishing reliable, consistent, high-quality experiences is very much on the minds of enterprise IT managers today.\u00a0<\/p>\n More than half (53%) of respondents to the 2023 Global Networking Trends Report said they are prioritizing integration with cloud providers to improve connectivity to cloud-based apps from distributed locations. Additionally, 49% said they are using SD-WAN integrations across providers and multiple clouds to provide a simpler, consistent, optimized, and secure IT and application experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n SD-WAN unifies the entire WAN backbone and brings secure, private, cloud-aware connectivity that is agnostic to all kinds of link types, providers, and geographies (Figure 2). \u00a0<\/p>\n \u202f <\/a><\/p>\n Figure 2. SD-WAN integrations with IaaS, SaaS, and middle-mile providers are vital for a better IT and user experience\u00a0<\/p>\n With SD-WAN providing connectivity between cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, real-time traffic steering based on centralized policy and end-to-end analytics is possible. Network admins can be proactive instead of reactive, changing traffic parameters on demand, according to application, congestion, location, user, device, and other factors.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tamimi Markets, a major Saudi Arabian supermarket chain, was having trouble providing a consistent experience to users at markets, warehouses, branch offices, and remote locations. Dependent on three ISPs for end-to-end connectivity in a hub-and-spoke architecture, they moved to a cloud architecture to eliminate the need to backhaul network traffic through the headquarters and in the process quadrupled bandwidth speeds. An integrated SD-WAN enables them to steer their traffic over a variety of link options based on network demand, cost, and quality of experience metrics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Asian food manufacturer Universal Robina Corporation shifted to a multicloud architecture to support remote workers after the pandemic. It uses SD-WAN to connect users and apps to its multicloud architecture securely, wherever they are located. The multicloud integrations enable secure connectivity from branches to the Microsoft Azure cloud and with Microsoft 365 for a superior application experience with informed network routing (INR) that enables the exchange of telemetry between Cisco and Microsoft while providing full visibility to Universal Robina\u2019s IT team.\u00a0<\/p>\n Another benefit of SD-WAN is that it is one half of a converged secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. SASE radically simplifies security and networking through unified and centralized management to connect users to applications in complex and highly distributed environments. By combining SD-WAN networking infrastructure and routing traffic through a cloud-centric security service edge (SSE) solution, companies can maintain the same level of security for cloud users as data center users (Figure 3).\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Figure 3. SD-WAN is foundational to a SASE architecture\u00a0<\/p>\n It\u2019s a multicloud world and SD-WAN\u2015with tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers\u2015is the connective tissue from first mile to last, managing complexity and driving agility throughout sprawling multicloud environments. <\/p>\n What\u2019s more, SD-WAN multicloud integrations bring together each organization\u2019s many different types of transport connections and policies under one management system for secure, consistent service. <\/p>\n The cost savings from automation and the ability to steer traffic on demand with optimized routing are further compelling reasons why SD-WAN continues to grow in popularity. Once established, these features enable IT departments to build an optimized global network in a simplified, fully automated way, within hours.\u00a0<\/p>\nAbstracting the complexity of multicloud\u00a0<\/h2>\n
Networking complexity, from first to last mile\u00a0<\/h2>\n
Managing multicloud complexity with SD-WAN integrations \u00a0<\/h2>\n
SD-WAN multicloud integrations in action\u00a0<\/h2>\n
Foundational for a SASE architecture\u00a0<\/h2>\n
Watch the Global Networking Trends on-demand webinar:<\/h2>\n
\u201cSecurely connect people, places, and things in an ever-changing world<\/a>\u201d<\/h2>\n
Abstracting the complexity of multicloud\u00a0<\/h2>\n
Networking complexity, from first to last mile\u00a0<\/h2>\n
Managing multicloud complexity with SD-WAN integrations \u00a0<\/h2>\n
SD-WAN multicloud integrations in action\u00a0<\/h2>\n
Foundational for a SASE architecture\u00a0<\/h2>\n
Watch the Global Networking Trends on-demand webinar:<\/h2>\n
\u201cSecurely connect people, places, and things in an ever-changing world<\/a>\u201d<\/h2>\n
![<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\nFigure 1. New architecture for the distributed workplace\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nThe middle mile is the long-haul transport layer that has grown in complexity with the migration to the cloud. It serves as the connective tissue between first and last mile, interconnecting different types of cloud services, cloud applications (e.g., SaaS, IaaS), and data centers. Specialized middle-mile providers like Equinix and Megaport provide cross-connects between business networks, the internet, and cloud providers globally. Adding to the array of choices in the middle mile, public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer customers the ability to access their apps with site-to-cloud, site-to-site, region-to-region, cloud-to-cloud, and other connection options with different quality of experience metrics. \u00a0<\/p>\nThe last mile is the connection between the data center or service provider and the end user\u2019s device and application.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nManaging multicloud complexity with SD-WAN integrations \u00a0<\/h2>\nUsing applications distributed across multiple clouds and SaaS, workers have widely different experiences depending on their location. Adverse and unpredictable amounts of downtime, latency, and speed, for example, can threaten business continuity. So, establishing reliable, consistent, high-quality experiences is very much on the minds of enterprise IT managers today.\u00a0<\/p>\nMore than half (53%) of respondents to the 2023 Global Networking Trends Report said they are prioritizing integration with cloud providers to improve connectivity to cloud-based apps from distributed locations. Additionally, 49% said they are using SD-WAN integrations across providers and multiple clouds to provide a simpler, consistent, optimized, and secure IT and application experience.\u00a0<\/p>\nSD-WAN unifies the entire WAN backbone and brings secure, private, cloud-aware connectivity that is agnostic to all kinds of link types, providers, and geographies (Figure 2). \u00a0<\/p>\n\u202f <\/a><\/p>\nFigure 2. SD-WAN integrations with IaaS, SaaS, and middle-mile providers are vital for a better IT and user experience\u00a0<\/p>\nWith SD-WAN providing connectivity between cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, real-time traffic steering based on centralized policy and end-to-end analytics is possible. Network admins can be proactive instead of reactive, changing traffic parameters on demand, according to application, congestion, location, user, device, and other factors.\u00a0<\/p>\nSD-WAN multicloud integrations in action\u00a0<\/h2>\nTamimi Markets, a major Saudi Arabian supermarket chain, was having trouble providing a consistent experience to users at markets, warehouses, branch offices, and remote locations. Dependent on three ISPs for end-to-end connectivity in a hub-and-spoke architecture, they moved to a cloud architecture to eliminate the need to backhaul network traffic through the headquarters and in the process quadrupled bandwidth speeds. An integrated SD-WAN enables them to steer their traffic over a variety of link options based on network demand, cost, and quality of experience metrics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nAsian food manufacturer Universal Robina Corporation shifted to a multicloud architecture to support remote workers after the pandemic. It uses SD-WAN to connect users and apps to its multicloud architecture securely, wherever they are located. The multicloud integrations enable secure connectivity from branches to the Microsoft Azure cloud and with Microsoft 365 for a superior application experience with informed network routing (INR) that enables the exchange of telemetry between Cisco and Microsoft while providing full visibility to Universal Robina\u2019s IT team.\u00a0<\/p>\nFoundational for a SASE architecture\u00a0<\/h2>\nAnother benefit of SD-WAN is that it is one half of a converged secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. SASE radically simplifies security and networking through unified and centralized management to connect users to applications in complex and highly distributed environments. By combining SD-WAN networking infrastructure and routing traffic through a cloud-centric security service edge (SSE) solution, companies can maintain the same level of security for cloud users as data center users (Figure 3).\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\nFigure 3. SD-WAN is foundational to a SASE architecture\u00a0<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a multicloud world and SD-WAN\u2015with tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers\u2015is the connective tissue from first mile to last, managing complexity and driving agility throughout sprawling multicloud environments. <\/p>\nWhat\u2019s more, SD-WAN multicloud integrations bring together each organization\u2019s many different types of transport connections and policies under one management system for secure, consistent service. <\/p>\nThe cost savings from automation and the ability to steer traffic on demand with optimized routing are further compelling reasons why SD-WAN continues to grow in popularity. Once established, these features enable IT departments to build an optimized global network in a simplified, fully automated way, within hours.\u00a0<\/p>\nWatch the Global Networking Trends on-demand webinar:<\/h2>\n\u201cSecurely connect people, places, and things in an ever-changing world<\/a>\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\t\tShare\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t <\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nShare:<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t <\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0With tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, SD-WAN multicloud integration is an antidote to the management complexity and lack of agility of sprawling multicloud environments.\u00a0\u00a0Read More<\/a>\u00a0Cisco Blogs\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\nCloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\u200b<\/p>\nCloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and time consuming. \u00a0<\/p>\nEnter the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), a powerful, abstracted software layer that serves as a centralized control plane to enable organizations to automate, simplify, and optimize their network transport for any application to any cloud.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nAre you ready to steer traffic on demand, based on centralized policy, network insights, and predictive AI, and further enhanced by end-to-end visibility? Do you want to be more proactive instead of reactive in how you manage this traffic and run your network? If so, read on!\u00a0<\/p>\nAbstracting the complexity of multicloud\u00a0<\/h2>\nEnterprises accelerated their transition to cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) during the pandemic to support their distributed workforces at home and on the go. This has seen multicloud environments become the norm. Our 2023 Global Networking Trends Report<\/a> found that 92% of respondents used more than one public cloud in their infrastructure and 69% used over five SaaS applications. \u00a0<\/p>\nConnecting to different providers and network layers in multicloud environments has led to a patchwork of infrastructure and management controllers. This results in more complexity and cost for organizations looking to ensure a secure, consistent user experience. \u00a0<\/p>\nNetworking complexity, from first to last mile\u00a0<\/h2>\nLet\u2019s look at these networking layers and why IT simplification is crucial in connecting today\u2019s highly mobile workforce to business-critical applications.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nIn the first mile, users access services from offices and campuses near data centers or remotely, from uncontrolled facilities using various devices (Figure 1). Workers connect through Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), broadband, Wi-Fi, and cellular. Remote workers use their internet service provider (ISP) to connect them to concentrators at regional peering points of presence (PoPs). \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\nFigure 1. New architecture for the distributed workplace\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nThe middle mile is the long-haul transport layer that has grown in complexity with the migration to the cloud. It serves as the connective tissue between first and last mile, interconnecting different types of cloud services, cloud applications (e.g., SaaS, IaaS), and data centers. Specialized middle-mile providers like Equinix and Megaport provide cross-connects between business networks, the internet, and cloud providers globally. Adding to the array of choices in the middle mile, public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer customers the ability to access their apps with site-to-cloud, site-to-site, region-to-region, cloud-to-cloud, and other connection options with different quality of experience metrics. \u00a0<\/p>\nThe last mile is the connection between the data center or service provider and the end user\u2019s device and application.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nManaging multicloud complexity with SD-WAN integrations \u00a0<\/h2>\nUsing applications distributed across multiple clouds and SaaS, workers have widely different experiences depending on their location. Adverse and unpredictable amounts of downtime, latency, and speed, for example, can threaten business continuity. So, establishing reliable, consistent, high-quality experiences is very much on the minds of enterprise IT managers today.\u00a0<\/p>\nMore than half (53%) of respondents to the 2023 Global Networking Trends Report said they are prioritizing integration with cloud providers to improve connectivity to cloud-based apps from distributed locations. Additionally, 49% said they are using SD-WAN integrations across providers and multiple clouds to provide a simpler, consistent, optimized, and secure IT and application experience.\u00a0<\/p>\nSD-WAN unifies the entire WAN backbone and brings secure, private, cloud-aware connectivity that is agnostic to all kinds of link types, providers, and geographies (Figure 2). \u00a0<\/p>\n\u202f <\/a><\/p>\nFigure 2. SD-WAN integrations with IaaS, SaaS, and middle-mile providers are vital for a better IT and user experience\u00a0<\/p>\nWith SD-WAN providing connectivity between cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, real-time traffic steering based on centralized policy and end-to-end analytics is possible. Network admins can be proactive instead of reactive, changing traffic parameters on demand, according to application, congestion, location, user, device, and other factors.\u00a0<\/p>\nSD-WAN multicloud integrations in action\u00a0<\/h2>\nTamimi Markets, a major Saudi Arabian supermarket chain, was having trouble providing a consistent experience to users at markets, warehouses, branch offices, and remote locations. Dependent on three ISPs for end-to-end connectivity in a hub-and-spoke architecture, they moved to a cloud architecture to eliminate the need to backhaul network traffic through the headquarters and in the process quadrupled bandwidth speeds. An integrated SD-WAN enables them to steer their traffic over a variety of link options based on network demand, cost, and quality of experience metrics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nAsian food manufacturer Universal Robina Corporation shifted to a multicloud architecture to support remote workers after the pandemic. It uses SD-WAN to connect users and apps to its multicloud architecture securely, wherever they are located. The multicloud integrations enable secure connectivity from branches to the Microsoft Azure cloud and with Microsoft 365 for a superior application experience with informed network routing (INR) that enables the exchange of telemetry between Cisco and Microsoft while providing full visibility to Universal Robina\u2019s IT team.\u00a0<\/p>\nFoundational for a SASE architecture\u00a0<\/h2>\nAnother benefit of SD-WAN is that it is one half of a converged secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. SASE radically simplifies security and networking through unified and centralized management to connect users to applications in complex and highly distributed environments. By combining SD-WAN networking infrastructure and routing traffic through a cloud-centric security service edge (SSE) solution, companies can maintain the same level of security for cloud users as data center users (Figure 3).\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\nFigure 3. SD-WAN is foundational to a SASE architecture\u00a0<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a multicloud world and SD-WAN\u2015with tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers\u2015is the connective tissue from first mile to last, managing complexity and driving agility throughout sprawling multicloud environments. <\/p>\nWhat\u2019s more, SD-WAN multicloud integrations bring together each organization\u2019s many different types of transport connections and policies under one management system for secure, consistent service. <\/p>\nThe cost savings from automation and the ability to steer traffic on demand with optimized routing are further compelling reasons why SD-WAN continues to grow in popularity. Once established, these features enable IT departments to build an optimized global network in a simplified, fully automated way, within hours.\u00a0<\/p>\nWatch the Global Networking Trends on-demand webinar:<\/h2>\n\u201cSecurely connect people, places, and things in an ever-changing world<\/a>\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\t\tShare<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t <\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nShare:<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t <\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0With tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, SD-WAN multicloud integration is an antidote to the management complexity and lack of agility of sprawling multicloud environments.\u00a0\u00a0Read More<\/a>\u00a0Cisco Blogs\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cisco-learning"],"yoast_head":"\nHow SD-WAN Solves Multicloud Complexity JL Valente on August 22, 2023 at 3:00 pm - JHC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jacksonholdingcompany.com\/how-sd-wan-solves-multicloud-complexity-jl-valente-on-august-22-2023-at-300-pm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How SD-WAN Solves Multicloud Complexity JL Valente on August 22, 2023 at 3:00 pm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs \u200b Cloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and time consuming. \u00a0 Enter the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), a powerful, abstracted software layer that serves as a centralized control plane to enable organizations to automate, simplify, and optimize their network transport for any application to any cloud.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you ready to steer traffic on demand, based on centralized policy, network insights, and predictive AI, and further enhanced by end-to-end visibility? Do you want to be more proactive instead of reactive in how you manage this traffic and run your network? If so, read on!\u00a0 Abstracting the complexity of multicloud\u00a0 Enterprises accelerated their transition to cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) during the pandemic to support their distributed workforces at home and on the go. This has seen multicloud environments become the norm. Our 2023 Global Networking Trends Report found that 92% of respondents used more than one public cloud in their infrastructure and 69% used over five SaaS applications. \u00a0 Connecting to different providers and network layers in multicloud environments has led to a patchwork of infrastructure and management controllers. This results in more complexity and cost for organizations looking to ensure a secure, consistent user experience. \u00a0 Networking complexity, from first to last mile\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at these networking layers and why IT simplification is crucial in connecting today\u2019s highly mobile workforce to business-critical applications.\u00a0\u00a0 In the first mile, users access services from offices and campuses near data centers or remotely, from uncontrolled facilities using various devices (Figure 1). Workers connect through Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), broadband, Wi-Fi, and cellular. Remote workers use their internet service provider (ISP) to connect them to concentrators at regional peering points of presence (PoPs). \u00a0 \u00a0 Figure 1. New architecture for the distributed workplace\u00a0\u00a0 The middle mile is the long-haul transport layer that has grown in complexity with the migration to the cloud. It serves as the connective tissue between first and last mile, interconnecting different types of cloud services, cloud applications (e.g., SaaS, IaaS), and data centers. Specialized middle-mile providers like Equinix and Megaport provide cross-connects between business networks, the internet, and cloud providers globally. Adding to the array of choices in the middle mile, public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer customers the ability to access their apps with site-to-cloud, site-to-site, region-to-region, cloud-to-cloud, and other connection options with different quality of experience metrics. \u00a0 The last mile is the connection between the data center or service provider and the end user\u2019s device and application.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Managing multicloud complexity with SD-WAN integrations \u00a0 Using applications distributed across multiple clouds and SaaS, workers have widely different experiences depending on their location. Adverse and unpredictable amounts of downtime, latency, and speed, for example, can threaten business continuity. So, establishing reliable, consistent, high-quality experiences is very much on the minds of enterprise IT managers today.\u00a0 More than half (53%) of respondents to the 2023 Global Networking Trends Report said they are prioritizing integration with cloud providers to improve connectivity to cloud-based apps from distributed locations. Additionally, 49% said they are using SD-WAN integrations across providers and multiple clouds to provide a simpler, consistent, optimized, and secure IT and application experience.\u00a0 SD-WAN unifies the entire WAN backbone and brings secure, private, cloud-aware connectivity that is agnostic to all kinds of link types, providers, and geographies (Figure 2). \u00a0 \u202f Figure 2. SD-WAN integrations with IaaS, SaaS, and middle-mile providers are vital for a better IT and user experience\u00a0 With SD-WAN providing connectivity between cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, real-time traffic steering based on centralized policy and end-to-end analytics is possible. Network admins can be proactive instead of reactive, changing traffic parameters on demand, according to application, congestion, location, user, device, and other factors.\u00a0 SD-WAN multicloud integrations in action\u00a0 Tamimi Markets, a major Saudi Arabian supermarket chain, was having trouble providing a consistent experience to users at markets, warehouses, branch offices, and remote locations. Dependent on three ISPs for end-to-end connectivity in a hub-and-spoke architecture, they moved to a cloud architecture to eliminate the need to backhaul network traffic through the headquarters and in the process quadrupled bandwidth speeds. An integrated SD-WAN enables them to steer their traffic over a variety of link options based on network demand, cost, and quality of experience metrics.\u00a0\u00a0 Asian food manufacturer Universal Robina Corporation shifted to a multicloud architecture to support remote workers after the pandemic. It uses SD-WAN to connect users and apps to its multicloud architecture securely, wherever they are located. The multicloud integrations enable secure connectivity from branches to the Microsoft Azure cloud and with Microsoft 365 for a superior application experience with informed network routing (INR) that enables the exchange of telemetry between Cisco and Microsoft while providing full visibility to Universal Robina\u2019s IT team.\u00a0 Foundational for a SASE architecture\u00a0 Another benefit of SD-WAN is that it is one half of a converged secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. 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The cost savings from automation and the ability to steer traffic on demand with optimized routing are further compelling reasons why SD-WAN continues to grow in popularity. 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But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs \u200b Cloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and time consuming. \u00a0 Enter the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), a powerful, abstracted software layer that serves as a centralized control plane to enable organizations to automate, simplify, and optimize their network transport for any application to any cloud.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you ready to steer traffic on demand, based on centralized policy, network insights, and predictive AI, and further enhanced by end-to-end visibility? Do you want to be more proactive instead of reactive in how you manage this traffic and run your network? If so, read on!\u00a0 Abstracting the complexity of multicloud\u00a0 Enterprises accelerated their transition to cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) during the pandemic to support their distributed workforces at home and on the go. This has seen multicloud environments become the norm. Our 2023 Global Networking Trends Report found that 92% of respondents used more than one public cloud in their infrastructure and 69% used over five SaaS applications. \u00a0 Connecting to different providers and network layers in multicloud environments has led to a patchwork of infrastructure and management controllers. This results in more complexity and cost for organizations looking to ensure a secure, consistent user experience. \u00a0 Networking complexity, from first to last mile\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at these networking layers and why IT simplification is crucial in connecting today\u2019s highly mobile workforce to business-critical applications.\u00a0\u00a0 In the first mile, users access services from offices and campuses near data centers or remotely, from uncontrolled facilities using various devices (Figure 1). Workers connect through Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), broadband, Wi-Fi, and cellular. Remote workers use their internet service provider (ISP) to connect them to concentrators at regional peering points of presence (PoPs). \u00a0 \u00a0 Figure 1. New architecture for the distributed workplace\u00a0\u00a0 The middle mile is the long-haul transport layer that has grown in complexity with the migration to the cloud. It serves as the connective tissue between first and last mile, interconnecting different types of cloud services, cloud applications (e.g., SaaS, IaaS), and data centers. Specialized middle-mile providers like Equinix and Megaport provide cross-connects between business networks, the internet, and cloud providers globally. Adding to the array of choices in the middle mile, public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer customers the ability to access their apps with site-to-cloud, site-to-site, region-to-region, cloud-to-cloud, and other connection options with different quality of experience metrics. \u00a0 The last mile is the connection between the data center or service provider and the end user\u2019s device and application.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Managing multicloud complexity with SD-WAN integrations \u00a0 Using applications distributed across multiple clouds and SaaS, workers have widely different experiences depending on their location. Adverse and unpredictable amounts of downtime, latency, and speed, for example, can threaten business continuity. So, establishing reliable, consistent, high-quality experiences is very much on the minds of enterprise IT managers today.\u00a0 More than half (53%) of respondents to the 2023 Global Networking Trends Report said they are prioritizing integration with cloud providers to improve connectivity to cloud-based apps from distributed locations. Additionally, 49% said they are using SD-WAN integrations across providers and multiple clouds to provide a simpler, consistent, optimized, and secure IT and application experience.\u00a0 SD-WAN unifies the entire WAN backbone and brings secure, private, cloud-aware connectivity that is agnostic to all kinds of link types, providers, and geographies (Figure 2). \u00a0 \u202f Figure 2. SD-WAN integrations with IaaS, SaaS, and middle-mile providers are vital for a better IT and user experience\u00a0 With SD-WAN providing connectivity between cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, real-time traffic steering based on centralized policy and end-to-end analytics is possible. Network admins can be proactive instead of reactive, changing traffic parameters on demand, according to application, congestion, location, user, device, and other factors.\u00a0 SD-WAN multicloud integrations in action\u00a0 Tamimi Markets, a major Saudi Arabian supermarket chain, was having trouble providing a consistent experience to users at markets, warehouses, branch offices, and remote locations. Dependent on three ISPs for end-to-end connectivity in a hub-and-spoke architecture, they moved to a cloud architecture to eliminate the need to backhaul network traffic through the headquarters and in the process quadrupled bandwidth speeds. An integrated SD-WAN enables them to steer their traffic over a variety of link options based on network demand, cost, and quality of experience metrics.\u00a0\u00a0 Asian food manufacturer Universal Robina Corporation shifted to a multicloud architecture to support remote workers after the pandemic. It uses SD-WAN to connect users and apps to its multicloud architecture securely, wherever they are located. The multicloud integrations enable secure connectivity from branches to the Microsoft Azure cloud and with Microsoft 365 for a superior application experience with informed network routing (INR) that enables the exchange of telemetry between Cisco and Microsoft while providing full visibility to Universal Robina\u2019s IT team.\u00a0 Foundational for a SASE architecture\u00a0 Another benefit of SD-WAN is that it is one half of a converged secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. SASE radically simplifies security and networking through unified and centralized management to connect users to applications in complex and highly distributed environments. By combining SD-WAN networking infrastructure and routing traffic through a cloud-centric security service edge (SSE) solution, companies can maintain the same level of security for cloud users as data center users (Figure 3).\u00a0 Figure 3. SD-WAN is foundational to a SASE architecture\u00a0 It\u2019s a multicloud world and SD-WAN\u2015with tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers\u2015is the connective tissue from first mile to last, managing complexity and driving agility throughout sprawling multicloud environments. What\u2019s more, SD-WAN multicloud integrations bring together each organization\u2019s many different types of transport connections and policies under one management system for secure, consistent service. 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![<\/a><\/p>\nFigure 2. SD-WAN integrations with IaaS, SaaS, and middle-mile providers are vital for a better IT and user experience\u00a0<\/p>\nWith SD-WAN providing connectivity between cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, real-time traffic steering based on centralized policy and end-to-end analytics is possible. Network admins can be proactive instead of reactive, changing traffic parameters on demand, according to application, congestion, location, user, device, and other factors.\u00a0<\/p>\nSD-WAN multicloud integrations in action\u00a0<\/h2>\nTamimi Markets, a major Saudi Arabian supermarket chain, was having trouble providing a consistent experience to users at markets, warehouses, branch offices, and remote locations. Dependent on three ISPs for end-to-end connectivity in a hub-and-spoke architecture, they moved to a cloud architecture to eliminate the need to backhaul network traffic through the headquarters and in the process quadrupled bandwidth speeds. An integrated SD-WAN enables them to steer their traffic over a variety of link options based on network demand, cost, and quality of experience metrics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nAsian food manufacturer Universal Robina Corporation shifted to a multicloud architecture to support remote workers after the pandemic. It uses SD-WAN to connect users and apps to its multicloud architecture securely, wherever they are located. The multicloud integrations enable secure connectivity from branches to the Microsoft Azure cloud and with Microsoft 365 for a superior application experience with informed network routing (INR) that enables the exchange of telemetry between Cisco and Microsoft while providing full visibility to Universal Robina\u2019s IT team.\u00a0<\/p>\nFoundational for a SASE architecture\u00a0<\/h2>\nAnother benefit of SD-WAN is that it is one half of a converged secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. SASE radically simplifies security and networking through unified and centralized management to connect users to applications in complex and highly distributed environments. By combining SD-WAN networking infrastructure and routing traffic through a cloud-centric security service edge (SSE) solution, companies can maintain the same level of security for cloud users as data center users (Figure 3).\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\nFigure 3. SD-WAN is foundational to a SASE architecture\u00a0<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a multicloud world and SD-WAN\u2015with tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers\u2015is the connective tissue from first mile to last, managing complexity and driving agility throughout sprawling multicloud environments. <\/p>\nWhat\u2019s more, SD-WAN multicloud integrations bring together each organization\u2019s many different types of transport connections and policies under one management system for secure, consistent service. <\/p>\nThe cost savings from automation and the ability to steer traffic on demand with optimized routing are further compelling reasons why SD-WAN continues to grow in popularity. Once established, these features enable IT departments to build an optimized global network in a simplified, fully automated way, within hours.\u00a0<\/p>\nWatch the Global Networking Trends on-demand webinar:<\/h2>\n\u201cSecurely connect people, places, and things in an ever-changing world<\/a>\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\t\tShare\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t <\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nShare:<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t <\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0With tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, SD-WAN multicloud integration is an antidote to the management complexity and lack of agility of sprawling multicloud environments.\u00a0\u00a0Read More<\/a>\u00a0Cisco Blogs\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\nCloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\u200b<\/p>\nCloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and time consuming. \u00a0<\/p>\nEnter the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), a powerful, abstracted software layer that serves as a centralized control plane to enable organizations to automate, simplify, and optimize their network transport for any application to any cloud.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nAre you ready to steer traffic on demand, based on centralized policy, network insights, and predictive AI, and further enhanced by end-to-end visibility? Do you want to be more proactive instead of reactive in how you manage this traffic and run your network? If so, read on!\u00a0<\/p>\nAbstracting the complexity of multicloud\u00a0<\/h2>\nEnterprises accelerated their transition to cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) during the pandemic to support their distributed workforces at home and on the go. This has seen multicloud environments become the norm. Our 2023 Global Networking Trends Report<\/a> found that 92% of respondents used more than one public cloud in their infrastructure and 69% used over five SaaS applications. \u00a0<\/p>\nConnecting to different providers and network layers in multicloud environments has led to a patchwork of infrastructure and management controllers. This results in more complexity and cost for organizations looking to ensure a secure, consistent user experience. \u00a0<\/p>\nNetworking complexity, from first to last mile\u00a0<\/h2>\nLet\u2019s look at these networking layers and why IT simplification is crucial in connecting today\u2019s highly mobile workforce to business-critical applications.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nIn the first mile, users access services from offices and campuses near data centers or remotely, from uncontrolled facilities using various devices (Figure 1). Workers connect through Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), broadband, Wi-Fi, and cellular. Remote workers use their internet service provider (ISP) to connect them to concentrators at regional peering points of presence (PoPs). \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\nFigure 1. New architecture for the distributed workplace\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nThe middle mile is the long-haul transport layer that has grown in complexity with the migration to the cloud. It serves as the connective tissue between first and last mile, interconnecting different types of cloud services, cloud applications (e.g., SaaS, IaaS), and data centers. Specialized middle-mile providers like Equinix and Megaport provide cross-connects between business networks, the internet, and cloud providers globally. Adding to the array of choices in the middle mile, public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer customers the ability to access their apps with site-to-cloud, site-to-site, region-to-region, cloud-to-cloud, and other connection options with different quality of experience metrics. \u00a0<\/p>\nThe last mile is the connection between the data center or service provider and the end user\u2019s device and application.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nManaging multicloud complexity with SD-WAN integrations \u00a0<\/h2>\nUsing applications distributed across multiple clouds and SaaS, workers have widely different experiences depending on their location. Adverse and unpredictable amounts of downtime, latency, and speed, for example, can threaten business continuity. So, establishing reliable, consistent, high-quality experiences is very much on the minds of enterprise IT managers today.\u00a0<\/p>\nMore than half (53%) of respondents to the 2023 Global Networking Trends Report said they are prioritizing integration with cloud providers to improve connectivity to cloud-based apps from distributed locations. Additionally, 49% said they are using SD-WAN integrations across providers and multiple clouds to provide a simpler, consistent, optimized, and secure IT and application experience.\u00a0<\/p>\nSD-WAN unifies the entire WAN backbone and brings secure, private, cloud-aware connectivity that is agnostic to all kinds of link types, providers, and geographies (Figure 2). \u00a0<\/p>\n\u202f <\/a><\/p>\nFigure 2. SD-WAN integrations with IaaS, SaaS, and middle-mile providers are vital for a better IT and user experience\u00a0<\/p>\nWith SD-WAN providing connectivity between cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, real-time traffic steering based on centralized policy and end-to-end analytics is possible. Network admins can be proactive instead of reactive, changing traffic parameters on demand, according to application, congestion, location, user, device, and other factors.\u00a0<\/p>\nSD-WAN multicloud integrations in action\u00a0<\/h2>\nTamimi Markets, a major Saudi Arabian supermarket chain, was having trouble providing a consistent experience to users at markets, warehouses, branch offices, and remote locations. Dependent on three ISPs for end-to-end connectivity in a hub-and-spoke architecture, they moved to a cloud architecture to eliminate the need to backhaul network traffic through the headquarters and in the process quadrupled bandwidth speeds. An integrated SD-WAN enables them to steer their traffic over a variety of link options based on network demand, cost, and quality of experience metrics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\nAsian food manufacturer Universal Robina Corporation shifted to a multicloud architecture to support remote workers after the pandemic. It uses SD-WAN to connect users and apps to its multicloud architecture securely, wherever they are located. The multicloud integrations enable secure connectivity from branches to the Microsoft Azure cloud and with Microsoft 365 for a superior application experience with informed network routing (INR) that enables the exchange of telemetry between Cisco and Microsoft while providing full visibility to Universal Robina\u2019s IT team.\u00a0<\/p>\nFoundational for a SASE architecture\u00a0<\/h2>\nAnother benefit of SD-WAN is that it is one half of a converged secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. SASE radically simplifies security and networking through unified and centralized management to connect users to applications in complex and highly distributed environments. By combining SD-WAN networking infrastructure and routing traffic through a cloud-centric security service edge (SSE) solution, companies can maintain the same level of security for cloud users as data center users (Figure 3).\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\nFigure 3. SD-WAN is foundational to a SASE architecture\u00a0<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a multicloud world and SD-WAN\u2015with tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers\u2015is the connective tissue from first mile to last, managing complexity and driving agility throughout sprawling multicloud environments. <\/p>\nWhat\u2019s more, SD-WAN multicloud integrations bring together each organization\u2019s many different types of transport connections and policies under one management system for secure, consistent service. <\/p>\nThe cost savings from automation and the ability to steer traffic on demand with optimized routing are further compelling reasons why SD-WAN continues to grow in popularity. Once established, these features enable IT departments to build an optimized global network in a simplified, fully automated way, within hours.\u00a0<\/p>\nWatch the Global Networking Trends on-demand webinar:<\/h2>\n\u201cSecurely connect people, places, and things in an ever-changing world<\/a>\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\t\tShare<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t <\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nShare:<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\t <\/a>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0\u00a0With tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, SD-WAN multicloud integration is an antidote to the management complexity and lack of agility of sprawling multicloud environments.\u00a0\u00a0Read More<\/a>\u00a0Cisco Blogs\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cisco-learning"],"yoast_head":"\nHow SD-WAN Solves Multicloud Complexity JL Valente on August 22, 2023 at 3:00 pm - JHC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jacksonholdingcompany.com\/how-sd-wan-solves-multicloud-complexity-jl-valente-on-august-22-2023-at-300-pm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How SD-WAN Solves Multicloud Complexity JL Valente on August 22, 2023 at 3:00 pm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs \u200b Cloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and time consuming. \u00a0 Enter the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), a powerful, abstracted software layer that serves as a centralized control plane to enable organizations to automate, simplify, and optimize their network transport for any application to any cloud.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you ready to steer traffic on demand, based on centralized policy, network insights, and predictive AI, and further enhanced by end-to-end visibility? Do you want to be more proactive instead of reactive in how you manage this traffic and run your network? If so, read on!\u00a0 Abstracting the complexity of multicloud\u00a0 Enterprises accelerated their transition to cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) during the pandemic to support their distributed workforces at home and on the go. This has seen multicloud environments become the norm. Our 2023 Global Networking Trends Report found that 92% of respondents used more than one public cloud in their infrastructure and 69% used over five SaaS applications. \u00a0 Connecting to different providers and network layers in multicloud environments has led to a patchwork of infrastructure and management controllers. This results in more complexity and cost for organizations looking to ensure a secure, consistent user experience. \u00a0 Networking complexity, from first to last mile\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at these networking layers and why IT simplification is crucial in connecting today\u2019s highly mobile workforce to business-critical applications.\u00a0\u00a0 In the first mile, users access services from offices and campuses near data centers or remotely, from uncontrolled facilities using various devices (Figure 1). Workers connect through Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), broadband, Wi-Fi, and cellular. Remote workers use their internet service provider (ISP) to connect them to concentrators at regional peering points of presence (PoPs). \u00a0 \u00a0 Figure 1. New architecture for the distributed workplace\u00a0\u00a0 The middle mile is the long-haul transport layer that has grown in complexity with the migration to the cloud. It serves as the connective tissue between first and last mile, interconnecting different types of cloud services, cloud applications (e.g., SaaS, IaaS), and data centers. Specialized middle-mile providers like Equinix and Megaport provide cross-connects between business networks, the internet, and cloud providers globally. Adding to the array of choices in the middle mile, public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer customers the ability to access their apps with site-to-cloud, site-to-site, region-to-region, cloud-to-cloud, and other connection options with different quality of experience metrics. \u00a0 The last mile is the connection between the data center or service provider and the end user\u2019s device and application.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Managing multicloud complexity with SD-WAN integrations \u00a0 Using applications distributed across multiple clouds and SaaS, workers have widely different experiences depending on their location. Adverse and unpredictable amounts of downtime, latency, and speed, for example, can threaten business continuity. So, establishing reliable, consistent, high-quality experiences is very much on the minds of enterprise IT managers today.\u00a0 More than half (53%) of respondents to the 2023 Global Networking Trends Report said they are prioritizing integration with cloud providers to improve connectivity to cloud-based apps from distributed locations. Additionally, 49% said they are using SD-WAN integrations across providers and multiple clouds to provide a simpler, consistent, optimized, and secure IT and application experience.\u00a0 SD-WAN unifies the entire WAN backbone and brings secure, private, cloud-aware connectivity that is agnostic to all kinds of link types, providers, and geographies (Figure 2). \u00a0 \u202f Figure 2. SD-WAN integrations with IaaS, SaaS, and middle-mile providers are vital for a better IT and user experience\u00a0 With SD-WAN providing connectivity between cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, real-time traffic steering based on centralized policy and end-to-end analytics is possible. Network admins can be proactive instead of reactive, changing traffic parameters on demand, according to application, congestion, location, user, device, and other factors.\u00a0 SD-WAN multicloud integrations in action\u00a0 Tamimi Markets, a major Saudi Arabian supermarket chain, was having trouble providing a consistent experience to users at markets, warehouses, branch offices, and remote locations. Dependent on three ISPs for end-to-end connectivity in a hub-and-spoke architecture, they moved to a cloud architecture to eliminate the need to backhaul network traffic through the headquarters and in the process quadrupled bandwidth speeds. An integrated SD-WAN enables them to steer their traffic over a variety of link options based on network demand, cost, and quality of experience metrics.\u00a0\u00a0 Asian food manufacturer Universal Robina Corporation shifted to a multicloud architecture to support remote workers after the pandemic. It uses SD-WAN to connect users and apps to its multicloud architecture securely, wherever they are located. The multicloud integrations enable secure connectivity from branches to the Microsoft Azure cloud and with Microsoft 365 for a superior application experience with informed network routing (INR) that enables the exchange of telemetry between Cisco and Microsoft while providing full visibility to Universal Robina\u2019s IT team.\u00a0 Foundational for a SASE architecture\u00a0 Another benefit of SD-WAN is that it is one half of a converged secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. SASE radically simplifies security and networking through unified and centralized management to connect users to applications in complex and highly distributed environments. By combining SD-WAN networking infrastructure and routing traffic through a cloud-centric security service edge (SSE) solution, companies can maintain the same level of security for cloud users as data center users (Figure 3).\u00a0 Figure 3. SD-WAN is foundational to a SASE architecture\u00a0 It\u2019s a multicloud world and SD-WAN\u2015with tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers\u2015is the connective tissue from first mile to last, managing complexity and driving agility throughout sprawling multicloud environments. What\u2019s more, SD-WAN multicloud integrations bring together each organization\u2019s many different types of transport connections and policies under one management system for secure, consistent service. The cost savings from automation and the ability to steer traffic on demand with optimized routing are further compelling reasons why SD-WAN continues to grow in popularity. 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But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and\u2026 Read more on Cisco Blogs \u200b Cloud is the undisputed center of gravity when supporting distributed workforces. But managing secure connectivity in a growing multicloud environment continues to be more complex, expensive, and time consuming. \u00a0 Enter the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), a powerful, abstracted software layer that serves as a centralized control plane to enable organizations to automate, simplify, and optimize their network transport for any application to any cloud.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Are you ready to steer traffic on demand, based on centralized policy, network insights, and predictive AI, and further enhanced by end-to-end visibility? Do you want to be more proactive instead of reactive in how you manage this traffic and run your network? If so, read on!\u00a0 Abstracting the complexity of multicloud\u00a0 Enterprises accelerated their transition to cloud and software-as-a-service (SaaS) during the pandemic to support their distributed workforces at home and on the go. This has seen multicloud environments become the norm. Our 2023 Global Networking Trends Report found that 92% of respondents used more than one public cloud in their infrastructure and 69% used over five SaaS applications. \u00a0 Connecting to different providers and network layers in multicloud environments has led to a patchwork of infrastructure and management controllers. This results in more complexity and cost for organizations looking to ensure a secure, consistent user experience. \u00a0 Networking complexity, from first to last mile\u00a0 Let\u2019s look at these networking layers and why IT simplification is crucial in connecting today\u2019s highly mobile workforce to business-critical applications.\u00a0\u00a0 In the first mile, users access services from offices and campuses near data centers or remotely, from uncontrolled facilities using various devices (Figure 1). Workers connect through Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), broadband, Wi-Fi, and cellular. Remote workers use their internet service provider (ISP) to connect them to concentrators at regional peering points of presence (PoPs). \u00a0 \u00a0 Figure 1. New architecture for the distributed workplace\u00a0\u00a0 The middle mile is the long-haul transport layer that has grown in complexity with the migration to the cloud. It serves as the connective tissue between first and last mile, interconnecting different types of cloud services, cloud applications (e.g., SaaS, IaaS), and data centers. Specialized middle-mile providers like Equinix and Megaport provide cross-connects between business networks, the internet, and cloud providers globally. Adding to the array of choices in the middle mile, public cloud providers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure offer customers the ability to access their apps with site-to-cloud, site-to-site, region-to-region, cloud-to-cloud, and other connection options with different quality of experience metrics. \u00a0 The last mile is the connection between the data center or service provider and the end user\u2019s device and application.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Managing multicloud complexity with SD-WAN integrations \u00a0 Using applications distributed across multiple clouds and SaaS, workers have widely different experiences depending on their location. Adverse and unpredictable amounts of downtime, latency, and speed, for example, can threaten business continuity. So, establishing reliable, consistent, high-quality experiences is very much on the minds of enterprise IT managers today.\u00a0 More than half (53%) of respondents to the 2023 Global Networking Trends Report said they are prioritizing integration with cloud providers to improve connectivity to cloud-based apps from distributed locations. Additionally, 49% said they are using SD-WAN integrations across providers and multiple clouds to provide a simpler, consistent, optimized, and secure IT and application experience.\u00a0 SD-WAN unifies the entire WAN backbone and brings secure, private, cloud-aware connectivity that is agnostic to all kinds of link types, providers, and geographies (Figure 2). \u00a0 \u202f Figure 2. SD-WAN integrations with IaaS, SaaS, and middle-mile providers are vital for a better IT and user experience\u00a0 With SD-WAN providing connectivity between cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers, real-time traffic steering based on centralized policy and end-to-end analytics is possible. Network admins can be proactive instead of reactive, changing traffic parameters on demand, according to application, congestion, location, user, device, and other factors.\u00a0 SD-WAN multicloud integrations in action\u00a0 Tamimi Markets, a major Saudi Arabian supermarket chain, was having trouble providing a consistent experience to users at markets, warehouses, branch offices, and remote locations. Dependent on three ISPs for end-to-end connectivity in a hub-and-spoke architecture, they moved to a cloud architecture to eliminate the need to backhaul network traffic through the headquarters and in the process quadrupled bandwidth speeds. An integrated SD-WAN enables them to steer their traffic over a variety of link options based on network demand, cost, and quality of experience metrics.\u00a0\u00a0 Asian food manufacturer Universal Robina Corporation shifted to a multicloud architecture to support remote workers after the pandemic. It uses SD-WAN to connect users and apps to its multicloud architecture securely, wherever they are located. The multicloud integrations enable secure connectivity from branches to the Microsoft Azure cloud and with Microsoft 365 for a superior application experience with informed network routing (INR) that enables the exchange of telemetry between Cisco and Microsoft while providing full visibility to Universal Robina\u2019s IT team.\u00a0 Foundational for a SASE architecture\u00a0 Another benefit of SD-WAN is that it is one half of a converged secure access service edge (SASE) architecture. SASE radically simplifies security and networking through unified and centralized management to connect users to applications in complex and highly distributed environments. By combining SD-WAN networking infrastructure and routing traffic through a cloud-centric security service edge (SSE) solution, companies can maintain the same level of security for cloud users as data center users (Figure 3).\u00a0 Figure 3. SD-WAN is foundational to a SASE architecture\u00a0 It\u2019s a multicloud world and SD-WAN\u2015with tight integrations to leading cloud, SaaS, and middle-mile providers\u2015is the connective tissue from first mile to last, managing complexity and driving agility throughout sprawling multicloud environments. What\u2019s more, SD-WAN multicloud integrations bring together each organization\u2019s many different types of transport connections and policies under one management system for secure, consistent service. 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