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In this webinar, we unpack the di!erent stages of network transformation that enterprises across the
Globe suddenly had to reckon with as COVID-19 forced businesses to adopt “work from home” across their
workforce, and strategies to help successfully navigate this rapid sea change in how the world does business.
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A rapid switch to ‘work-from-home’ comes with it’s own unique set of challenges for ensuring that your critical applications, VPN, and business services are accessible
and working well for remote users.
AppNeta's VP of Product Sean Armstrong and Principal Solutions Consultant John Tew!k have been listening to customers and understand the struggle intimately,
and share here how you can tackle these key consider-ations and set your network management team up for
long-term success.
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John Tew!k has over 15 years experience working with networks, systems and at software companies. With a background in network technology and a passion for
solving problems, he gets to do both every day at AppNeta.
Sean Armstrong has been in product management at AppNeta for twelve years and in the industry for over twenty. As vice president of products, Sean revels in
taking deep network information and making it inter-esting and digestible to businesses.
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Prior to COVID-19, assisting companies with network transformation was one of the major activities at
AppNeta. Companies transitioning workloads to the cloud, deploying SD-WAN and DIA architectures, and adopting new UC services were the order of the day.
The vast majority of the time this was done from corpo-rate o!ces to a hybrid environment of data centers,
public cloud and SaaS services.
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With COVID-19, the major change has not been where the apps are hosted, but rather how the users are
accessing them, as employees are entering the network from their home o!ces, over their residential
internet connections. In short, we’re hearing from companies that there are two key areas that require
monitoring: The workstations themselves, which many companies often have in place, and the application
delivery networks, which is a huge unknown to pretty much every customer in this WFH transition.
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While we’ve been working with our customers to help adapt their strategies, we’ve been observing that their e!orts seem to align with 3 common stages. The "rst
stage is response mode, the next is about understand-ing performance of these new network architectures
and getting to the bottom of what is causing ongoing degradation, while the third stage is really accepting
that this is the new normal.
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As your users have abruptly transitioned to WFH, you’ve likely beehave been challenged to solve prob-
lems they have likely never considered before. The key here is to triage the systematic problems, ensuring that key infrastructure and services are working properly for
the majority of users, and then addressing one-o! issues as resources allow. A common refrain at this
point is the mantra of “Grant me the serenity to control the parts of the network that I can, and accept the
parts that I can’t...” but gaining that required visibility is key to long term success.
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Critical in identifying these blind spots is that not all applications will be accessed the same way. Most
companies we work with are in some phase of transi-tion from internal and co-lo hosted applications to
Cloud and SaaS, and this dual nature means that both the DIA network paths, and VPN network paths need to
be monitored.
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After you’ve done your best to “stop the bleeding” associated with Stage 1, you need to start actually
putting some resolutions in place that go above and beyond “triage.” This includes deploying new technolo-gies and undergoing some thoughtful network rearchi-
tecting in critical areas to help make management easier now that the immediate network “!res” have
been put out.
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Because you’re starting to talk about End User Experience, you’re looking at cohorts of users who may
have nothing to do with the VPN. For instance, moni-toring for cloud-dependent UC applications may be
more important for users working in customer support than tracking VPN access back to network hubs. On the
!ip side, IT may want to have at least regional geo-graphic representation of performance to VPN gate-
ways and concentrators, as well as a reasonable sample of the major ISPs that end users are depending on as
part of this application path.
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Stage 3 is where you look to optimize processes with a systematic approach, getting out of the reactive mode
of operation into the proactive, detecting problems before users call in. This requires that you think
through future projects not just from a traditional o!ce perspective, but also through the lens of these
remote users: How are you going to balance these needs to ensure the access and performance of services,security of your data, and adherence to
compliance regulations?
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One key area that needs consideration is investments in data security for distributed, hybrid environments. The key elements of O!ce level VPNs into cloud VPC
deployments through services like Express Routes are still important, but with a large portion of users remote
options for securing these remote users through SSL VPNs and CASB services like ZScaler z-app need to be
part of the plan from the start.
These services are required for security, but the combi-nation of them with DIA networks and 3rd Party appli-cations like IaaS cloud and SaaS require that you think
about how you will instrument to "nd and "x issues that may never traverse your infrastructure. These new
challenges require new tooling.
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Now that you have an understanding of how the enterprise as whole is impacted by this sudden and rapid network transformation, it’s important to now
understand how individual user groups are impacted at each stage of the transition.
Knowledge workers, for instance, leverage a completely di!erent toolset than customer care workers, and will
need to leverage di!erent networking solutions to assure the performance of the tools they use to drive
business.
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With enterprise networks decentralizing and evolving rapidly, arming IT with a complete picture they can
take action on is essential. Our platform combines four dimensions of monitoring data—network paths,
packets, web/URLs and !ow—that give centralized IT a local perspective into end-user experience, regardless of where IT resides. All of this is done without impact-
ing network capacity, and with the ability to scale from 10 to 10,000 endpoints as customers grow.
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As much as we’ve covered here today, we’ve really only scratched the surface. Network transformations are
never fully complete, and as we’ve all learned recently, you need to be ready to change strategies in an
instant.
You can only keep up if you’re armed with comprehen-sive visibility that combines active and passive moni-
toring so that enterprise IT teams can attack issues before they impact end users. AppNeta is the only
solution that can deliver visibility across your entire network, so that your teams can stay connected
regardless of where your users are located.