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Rapid SDN Access and a Secure Edge from the Cloud

· Technology

So why is that fuzzy thing called the cloud needed, when you can simply install software on all of your own network equipment?

Your workforce is hungrily grabbing data and making connections for the company and themselves using Google accounts, Microsoft business apps, Zoom communication platforms, Internet access, and storage in the cloud, uploading data onto a third-party network vendor’s server and downloading files to hard-drives. Studies show even small and midsize enterprises employ 4 or more cloud providers. Your workforce is already in the cloud.

This brings access requests from far away, or while on the run, representing more network bandwidth that you now have to support as an IT organization. Why not get the help from the cloud when your private MPLS network and on-premise data center is so far away, requiring excessive hops for network policy enforcement? Are you going to place a router and firewall at every individual access point? The network management responsibility to cover this expanding, dissipating network perimeter might be overwhelming if not for the cloud.

Read more@ advantages of SDN

For enterprise network managers, visibility and control represent potential trade-offs in the exchange with cloud providers. With data no longer hosted in your data center but now out at the device level, and within cloud storage access points, your visibility is suddenly bleak. Break through this foggy network-vs-security-vs-business-siloed landscape and get greater visibility over the new network edge via a SASE network architecture from OPAQ.