Digital transformation is happening now, and fast. It includes cloud, services, mobile. It’s hybrid, it’s the Internet, it’s the user. Most importantly, it’s the seamless orchestration of all these things together. True digital transformation is the ability to orchestrate apps, networks, and devices to provide seamless access to digital services for end-users.
Such orchestration can only be achieved by the one thing that connects everything: the network. In the highly centralized, controlled, and self-contained enterprise IT environments of the past, static hardware-based networking worked ok. But today, apps are both on-premises and in the cloud. Networks are both private and public. Users are mobile as well as remote. IT is more distributed, fragmented, and dynamic than ever. Taming this chaos of hybrid apps, hybrid networks, and mobile users demands a new approach to networking based on policy automation and real-time orchestration of all components of connectivity and access. That new approach is software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN).
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