Customer want to optimise branch connectivity to their IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud services.

New channel programmes, incentives and expanded enablement tools and resources provide partners with a clear path to success in the SD-WAN market.

A survey has found that 51% of Australian enterprises plan to deploy SD-WAN in the next 12-24 months as WAN optimisation remains critical.

Leading network test lab puts EdgeConnect through its paces which maintains toll-quality VoIP service over broadband, even with more than 55% packet loss.

Leaders in the market include Cisco with Meraki, VMware, Silver Peak and Riverbed.

"With SD-WAN, businesses can easily move to a split tunnel architecture with local internet breakout, enabling users to access UCaaS services."

Leading IT organisations are deploying SD-WAN solutions with software-based routing, displacing traditional branch router architectures.

Zscaler increases partnership ecosystem to enhance network and security transformation capabilities for enterprises.

They join the likes of Palo Alto Networks, OPAQ, Zscaler, and Fortinet in a rapidly expanding security alliance ecosystem.

How the rise of SD-WAN has simplified local internet breakout deployments, and why security is still a pervasive issue.

Not just any SD-WAN solution can offer the right levels of network security.

When assessing capabilities to execute commercial strategy, including the capacity to scale the operation and resources, consider the WAN.

ZK Research founder and principal analyst Zeus Kerravala gives his top ten tips on how to deploy and optimise SD-WAN.

While it’s always good to streamline your portfolio, it’s also important to think about all potential use-cases. Ovum chief analyst Mike Sapien explains

Silver Peak discuss how SD-WAN can facilitate a stronger link to cloud services for an organisations remote branch.

Silver Peak's recent report details the benefits of SD-WAN over traditional WANs, its imminent security challenges, and how to fortify against them.

An Ovum analyst says service providers must develop broader differentiated managed SD-WAN service portfolios to cover the expanding customer segments.

ZK Research's founder provides his ten steps on deploying an SD-WAN - a series of chip shots rather than one big drive to the moon.

After a comprehensive evaluation of a number of SD-WAN vendors, a subsidiary of the KDDI Corporation has partnered with Silver Peak.

Silver Peak's Graham Schultz assesses how far off the self-driving WAN really is.

The company has also partnered with Silver Peak and Cisco Meraki on the project.

“[This is] similar to what happened in compute when mainframe and Unix-based servers were superseded by x86 systems."

SD-WAN service providers should invest in marketing campaigns to promote their managed SD-WAN service offers to avoid being ‘out-shouted’ by vendors.

Silver Peak's Nav Chander discusses how SD-WAN can be the key to an easier and more efficient multi-cloud solution.