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The
Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? Global Industry ReportMarch 2018
The Future of SD-WAN. Today.
2Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? The Future of SD-WAN. Today.
Contents
About the Survey ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 3
Executive Summary ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 3
Simplification: The SD-WAN Story of 2018 ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 4
Network Simplification Reduce Costs While Improving Network Agility �������������������������������������� 9
Detailed Survey Results ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 10
3Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? The Future of SD-WAN. Today.
Executive SummaryIn this year’s networking survey, we wanted to delve into what factors drive, support, or inhibit WAN transformation projects. Essential to that goal was understanding the role simplification plays in enterprise networks.
Many IT leaders engaged by Cato point to the rising complexity of their networks. It’s not just that IT managers are expected to reduce costs by migrating from costly MPLS services to inexpensive and unsecure Internet connectivity. Alone that would be challenging, often necessitating a rethinking of network security architectures. But simultaneously, IT professionals are being tasked with expanding the scope of the WAN to include cloud datacenters, cloud applications, and mobile users. Existing management and connectivity tools are often discrete, leading to redundancies, knowledge gaps, and process inefficiencies all of which undermine IT’s goal of being more efficient and agile.
To those ends, we explored how cloud, mobility, and security impact MPLS buyers transitioning to the new stage of SD-WAN, SD-WAN 3.0. With SD-WAN 1.0, solutions provided basic link bonding for aggregating and improving last-mile availability and obtaining more bandwidth. SD-WAN 2.0 introduced application-aware, policy-based routing for improved application performance. But both versions of SD-WAN were focussed on networking, connecting offices across the Internet or MPLS.
SD-WAN 3.0 goes a step further, converging advanced security with SD-WAN and expanding SD-WAN's scope to include all applications for the entire enterprise. Global, low-cost backbones allow enterprises to migrate entirely off of MPLS. Native cloud connectivity simplifies the integration of cloud datacenters and cloud applications. SD-WAN tunnel overlays extend to endpoints, bringing mobile devices — not just locations — into the WAN. More broadly, the shift from branch-focused SD-WAN point solutions to a holistic SD-WAN architecture enables faster, simpler WAN design and delivery.
About the SurveyA total of 1606 respondents took “Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore?” survey between January 8, 2018 and January 22, 2018. This report focussed on those organizations with MPLS as their backbone, a total of 712 respondents.
The respondents represent a cross section of the IT market. Nearly a third (28%) of the respondents were from organizations with less than 11 locations q11, 57% indicate their organization had 2-4 physical datacenters. Most companies were headquartered in the US (68%) or Europe (22%) q7. Respondents came from across the industry with "telecommunications" (18%), "computers & electronics" (18%), and "manufacturing" (12%) being the most popular sectors q41.
4Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? The Future of SD-WAN. Today.
The complexity of today’s network, and the push for a simpler one, expresses itself in many ways. At times, IT professionals explicitly point to “complexity” as a challenge. In other instances, complexity is implicit, such as when they express interest in “network automation” or point to concerns around selecting, integrating, and managing multiple tools and platforms.
WAN Simplification: Critical for 2018 Specific findings from our research pointing to the importance of simplification include:
Simplification The SD-WAN Story of 2018
If SD-WAN is to develop fully in 2018 and allow enterprise to truly transform their networks, the complete secure networking experience, not just connectivity, must become simpler, more seamless. It’s no longer sufficient that SD-WAN only simplifies transport selection between offices. SD-WAN solutions must simplify the complete life cycle for all network elements, converging deployment, maintenance, and management end-to-end into one seamless experience. This includes physical and cloud resources for office and mobile users. With one network infrastructure, IT organizations can and do realize tremendous gains in efficiencies and cost saving, enabling them to reallocate resources to more critical projects. The majority (81%) of those respondents actively planning an SD-WAN deployment in the next 12 months identify “protecting locations and the site-to-site connections from malware and other threats” as a “Critical” or “Very Important” priority in their SD-WAN decision making.
Most Popular Use Case for 2018
cited as the most popular (50% of respondents) use case for 2018 Q3
Primary Networking Challenges for 2018
Primary Security Challenges for 2018
Simplicity is still a challenge for SD-WAN solutions
ranked "equipment maintenance and updates" as the number two challenge Q4
Enforcing corporate security policy on mobile users Q5
see SD-WAN appliances as “too complex” Q29
ranked "managing the network" as the number four challenge Q4
Cost of buying and maintaining security appliances and software
see SD-WAN services as “too complex” Q30
Simplify network or security
39%
34% 32%
35%
39% 25%
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SD-WAN services predominate but must embrace cloud attributes
Cloud datacenters and applications disrupt today’s WAN
Given the attention placed on simplification, increased adoption of SD-WAN services should come as no surprise. After all, a primary selling point of infrastructure services has always been that the provider assumes the complexity of deploying, managing, and maintaining the infrastructure.
Last year, 30% of respondents identified their SD-WAN supplier as a “service provider” or “carrier”. This year that number has grown to nearly half of respondents (49%) Q27.
But carrier-managed SD-WAN services remain fundamentally limited. Managed services are built on integrating and repackaging third-party networking and security appliances. As such, co-management is either impossible, limited to one domain, or still requires learning and managing two environments. What's more the hardware costs, required integration effort, and ongoing maintenance — all combine to elevate the price of the service and adversely impact speed and agility.
In short, carrier-managed SD-WAN services fail to capitalize on the unique qualities of the cloud — elasticity, scalability, multi tenancy, and more. By taking advantage of these attributes, an SD-WAN service built for the cloud — SD-WAN as a service (SDWaaS) — can provide an end-to-end service far more affordably than one based on appliances duct taped with a managed service layer.
In large part, the push for simplification stems from our networks expanding to include the cloud. More than half (65% of respondents) indicated their organizations had at least one cloud datacenter with nearly half (45%) respondents indicating two or more datacenters Q35. As for cloud applications, Microsoft Office 365 was the most popular (75% of respondents) followed by Salesforce.com (30% of respondents).
With cloud datacenters and cloud applications, the traditional MPLS approach of backhauling traffic to a central Internet access point is no longer effective. It adds too much latency to cloud sessions and consumes expensive MPLS bandwidth. Organizations need to rethink their network architectures to accommodate the cloud.
Respondents identified theirSD-WAN supplier as a
“service provider” or “carrier”
2017
30%
2018
49%
of organizations haveat least one clouddatacenter Q35
65%
Cloud datacenter-WAN integration was the third most popular primary use case for
the next 12 months Q3
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SD-WAN should be a natural onramp to the cloud. Overall, improving cloud or Internet performance was ranked by 78% as a critical or very important SD-WAN priority. Q19 But traditional SD-WAN solutions are two-sided architectures, requiring an SD-WAN appliance on either end of the connection. Placing such appliances within cloud datacenters is either very complicated, expensive or, in the case of cloud applications, often impossible. An alternative approach is needed, one that brings traffic right to the cloud without any special setup.
Incidentally, the dominance of Amazon and Google when it comes to everything Internet makes it easy to forget about a “small startup” in Redmond called Microsoft. If our numbers indicate anything, though, enterprises certainly haven’t forgotten their computing roots. Microsoft showed up repeatedly in our survey when investigating cloud services. It was the most popular provider of cloud datacenter services among enterprises (70% of respondents) followed by Amazon AWS (53%). The “big two” aren’t the only options for cloud datacenter services. More than 10% of respondents indicated adoption of Google Cloud and 1% indicated use of Alibaba Cloud Compute Services Q36.
ranked improving cloud or Internetperformance as a critical or
very important SD-WAN priority
78%critical
Most popular provider of cloud datacenter services
among enterprises
70% 53%
Firewalls and mobile device security converge in the cloud
SD-WAN isn’t the only networking technology going the way of services. With inadequacies of appliances and the shift to cloud datacenters and applications, more enterprises will secure their branches, cloud datacenters, and mobile users through firewall as a service (FWaaS) and cloud access security brokers (CASBs) in 2018.
Securing cloud datacenters has introduced a range of challenges for enterprises. Built-in cloud firewalls require a separate management interface and offer only basic security features. Virtual firewalls placed in cloud datacenters are expensive, and complex to maintain and configure. Lastly, backhauling all cloud traffic through a single datacenter firewall chokepoint is adding too much latency for out-of-the-way fixed and mobile users.
More enterprises will secure their branches, cloud datacenters, and mobile users through firewall as a service (FWaaS) and cloud access security brokers (CASBs) in 2018
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As such, current best practices call for enterprises to build regional hubs and connect them with high-speed, dedicated connections to cloud datacenter services. Dedicated connection services — AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft ExpressRoute, and Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect — were deployed by the organizations of 31% of respondents with the number expected to grow to about half of respondents (47%) within 12 months Q37.
But building out regional hubs is expensive and often unfeasible for many organizations. Firewall as a service (FWaaS) offers a way forward. Instead of the enterprises building a regional hub, the FWaaS provider builds regional point-of-presence (PoP) interconnected by a private backbone. Optimized routing to the cloud provider’s premium transport peering point allows FWaaS to significantly improve network performance. FWaaS showed the greatest potential of growth of any cloud security solution with 60% expecting to adopt the technology in 12 months Q38.
At the same time, cloud application adoption causes IT to lose visibility into and control over user traffic, particularly mobile users. Frustrated by the poor performance of secure mobile access solutions, mobile users often end up accessing cloud applications directly, bypassing organizational management and security controls. Enforcing corporate security policies on mobile users was challenging for many respondents (34%) Q5. Overall, most respondents (78%) indicated some problem when accessing cloud applications with security being the most frequently cited issue (40%) Q33.
Increasingly, organizations will address those issues by going to the cloud. Of the various approaches for securing access to cloud applications, CASB shows the greatest promise growing from 21% of respondents today to 79% within the next 12 months Q34.
of respondents indicatedproblems when accessingcloud applications. Securityis the most frequently citedissue.
78%
of respondents define enforcing corporate securitypolicies on mobile userschallenging Q5
34%
Dedicated connectionservices deployment
Current Within 12 months
31%
47%Q37
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Last year we predicted that MPLS services will persist despite SD-WAN adoption. The inherent unpredictability of the Internet, particularly for global connectivity, makes it a poor replacement for MPLS services. And once again, indications point to MPLS' staying power. More than half (57%) of respondents with SD-WAN implementations expect MPLS investments to increase or remain the same Q15.
The persistence of MPLS stems from the underlying problem of relying on the public Internet as an enterprise backbone. Whereas Internet connectivity has improved and is often sufficient for regional connectivity, the Internet continues to be too erratic, too unpredictable for the consistent, end-to-end connectivity required by loss- or latency- sensitive applications, such as voice.
As such, enterprises often retain an SLA-backed backbone along with the deployment of SD-WANs. MPLS, of course, is the SLA-backed backbone that’s known to enterprises, but MPLS is hardly the only choice. In fact, nearly a third (32%) of respondent ranked finding “an affordable and suitable MPLS alternative” a primary use case for 2018 Q3.
MPLS persists as companies search for affordable alternative
SD-WAN: Cost savings and more
Cost reductions have been a common refrain for why companies adopt SD-WAN. And while excessive WAN-related costs is a primary motivation for SD-WAN, it’s not the biggest driver. Most respondents point to a general WAN modernization effort (38%) Q20 as the reason for moving to SD-WAN.
Yes, MPLS is out of step with the cost structures of today’s companies, but it’s limitations are far more than just costs. Deployment times are far too long. Management is handled solely by providers at a time when respondents prefer co-managing their infrastructure Q25. In short, MPLS is a WAN for a past era.
Respondents echoed this broader view of SD-WAN’s benefits in their objectives for SD-WAN. Increased agility Q23 was the most widely achieved priority by those who implemented SD-WAN, pointing to SD-WAN’s ability to address the deployment and provisioning challenges of MPLS. SD-WAN did lead to reduced MPLS costs (42%), but since finding an affordable MPLS alternative continues to be a primary objective for many respondents, organizations should not expect to replace MPLS with an Internet-only backbone.
SD-WANIncreased
agility
cited by
51%to address the deployment and
provisioning challenges of MPLS
57% of respondents withSD-WAN implementations expectMPLS investments to increase or
remain the same
SD-WAN impact on MPLSinvestments
43%Decreased
35%Increased
22%No impact
MPLSinvestments
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Network Simplification: Reduce Costs While Improving Network Agility
Reducing costs and improving agility have seemed mutually exclusive for far too long. And while SD-WAN 2.0 certainly helped bridge that gap, IT managers are still left with purchasing, supporting, and integrating multiple backbones, and networking and security products. Separate management and connectivity tools for fixed and mobile users are still needed, as are complex configurations to connect cloud resources to the SD-WAN. All of which fragments data, hindering efficient visibility and control over the enterprise network.
SD-WAN 3.0 offers a better approach, converging security and networking into a seamless cloud service. One service for mobile and fixed users. The same service connecting private datacenters, cloud datacenters, and cloud applications. With a simpler network, SD-WAN 3.0 solutions like Cato Cloud make network simplification, cost reduction, and better security possible.
One SecurityA full suite of cloud-based network security services built directly into the network and protecting all traffic.
HQ Mobile userCloud DatacenterBranch
Cato Cloud
One NetworkGlobal SLA-backed backbone that carries Internet and WAN traffic, and can augment or replace MPLS.
One PolicyCato enforces a unified policy for all traffic and across all users, locations, and applications.
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Detailed Survey Results
11Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? The Future of SD-WAN. Today.
Q1 Q2
Q3
Over the next 12-24 months, what do you anticipate will happen to your networking budget?
Over the next 12-24 months, what do you anticipate will happen to your security budget?
Which of the following use cases will be a primary focus for your company over the next 12 months? (select no more than three)
36%Stay the same
48%Increase
11%Decrease
5%Uncertain
NetworkBudget
20%Stay the same 73%
Increase
4%Decrease
3%Uncertain
SecurityBudget
Simplify network or security architectures
50%
Improve visibility into and control over mobile access to cloud applications, such
as Office 365
31%
Provide secure, Internet access from any location
46%
Decrease the time users wait to access remote
servers or transfer files
16%
Integrate cloud datacenter(s) into the WAN
36%
Eliminate appliances from branch offices
14%
Replace MPLS with a more affordable alternative with
suitable performance
32%
Other
7%
12Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? The Future of SD-WAN. Today.
Q4
Identify the primary networking challenges facing your IT organization. (no more than three)
Q5
Identify the primary security challenges facing your IT organization. (no more than three)
42% Bandwidth costs
39% Equipment maintenance and updates
38% Performance between locations
35% Managing the network
25% Performance to the cloud
23% Providing and managing secure mobile/remote access
21% Last-mile availability
19% Finding and retaining skilled networking personnel
17% Time to deploy new locations
59% Defending against emerging threats like ransomware
40% Complying with government and industry regulations
39% Cost of buying and managing security appliances and software
34% Enforcing corporate security policy on mobile users
32% Integrating and securing cloud and physical datacenters
24% Hiring and retaining skilled staff
19% Providing secure direct internet access for branch locations
Q7 Q8
Where is your company headquartered?
Where does your company have remote sites? (Select all that apply)68% North America
22% Europe
6% Asia
1% Australia
1% South America
1% Middle East
1% Africa
81% North America
51% Europe
45% Asia
29% South America
25% Australia
24% Middle East
16% Africa
13Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? The Future of SD-WAN. Today.
Q9
How many full-time employees are in your company?
30%100-999employees
20%10,000+employees
4%1-99employees
27%2,500-10,000employees
20%1,000-2,499employees
39%100-999employees
17%2,500-10,000employees
10%10,000+employees
18%1,000-2,499employees
16%1-99employees
Q10
How many mobile users access your network?
Q11 Q12
How many locations are in your network?
How many physical datacenters are in your organization?
28% 1-10
22% 11-25
13% 251+
13% 26-50
13% 51-100
11% 101-250
57% 2-4
26% 5+
14% 1
3% 0
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Q14
How familiar would you say you are with SD-WAN as a technology?
28%Unfamiliar
56%Somewhat familiar
16%Very familiar
Q16
Q15
Q17
Do you have or are you planning to deploy SD-WAN?
To what degree has SD-WAN impacted or do you anticipate will impact your investment in the following technologies?
When considering an SD-WAN, which of the following factors would you consider to be the biggest barriers to investment?
14%SD-WAN in 12 months
13%Have SD-WAN
21%No plans
30%Considering SD-WAN
22%I don’t know
49% Maturity of existing SD-WAN offerings
47% Cost of new equipment/services
41% Internet performance characteristics (latency, packet loss etc.)
29% Security gaps created in the network
21% Additional complexity
2% Other
Internetservices
MPLSservices
Network securityappliances
Routers WAN optimizationappliances
Decreased No impact Increased
75%
11%
54%
35%
13%
59%
28%
5%
58%
37%
26%
47%
27%
6%
59%
28%
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Q18
You're looking for an SD-WAN and must choose between functionality and ease of use. Please move the slider to best reflect your preference.
50�46%Easy to use GUI with SD-WANfeatures to meet all basicnetwork requirements
Cisco IOS-like CLI with the SD-WANfeatures to meet all basic and advanced
networking requierments
Q19
Please rank the importance of the following SD-WAN priorities in your decision making process.
55%
34%
47%
40%
30%
55%
30%
50%
29%
49%
Secure delivery of data across the WAN/Internet
Protecting locations and the site-to-site connection from
malware and other threats
Improved application performance
Reduced operational costs
Improved cloud or internet performance
Predictable delivery of high-quality voice
Flexibility to rapidly increase bandwidth
Improved last-mile availability
Reduced deployment and reconfiguration
times
Increased choice of last-mile services
(MPLS, xDSL, 3G/4G etc.)
35%
42%
20%
56%
23%
50%
24%
49%
20%
48%
Critical Very important Somewhat important Not important
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Q20 Q21
What was the primary motivation for considering SD-WAN?
Has your SD-WAN deployment lived up to expectations?
28%Excessive WAN-related costs
19%Excessive site deployment/reconfiguration times
15%To address an initiative from the business
38%General WAN modernization effort 15%
Yes
6%No
79%Too soon to tell
Q22 Q23
How long ago did your company complete the bulk of its SD-WAN deployment?
Which priorities did you achieve after your SD-WAN deployment?(check all that apply)
76% Still in process
9% 1 year or more
6% 6-12 months
6% 3-6 months
3% 3 months
51% Increased network flexibility and agility
42% Reduced cost of MPLS service
27% Other (please specify)
26% Improved Internet or cloud performance
26% Increased network security
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Q24 Q25
How has your SD-WAN failed to live up to expectations?(check all that apply)
Which of the following is your preferred SD-WAN management architecture?
33%Self-managed
18%Fully managed
49%Co-managed
Q26
Q27
How has SD-WAN most positively impacted your organization?(check all that apply)
How would you best describe your SD-WAN provider?
39% Increased network flexibility
36% Improved connectivity
30% Reduced costs
25% Reduced physical infrastructure
18% Improved security
13% Increased network security
32%Equipment vendor
36%Global service provider
19%ISP
12%Carrier
20% SD-WAN met our expectations
20% Did not significantly reduce costs
17% Did not reduce network complexity
16% Difficult to deploy
11% Did not improve performance/latency
10% Hard to maintain
9% Increased security risks
18Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? The Future of SD-WAN. Today.
Q28 Q29
How would you rate your overall experience with your SD-WAN supplier?
What are your biggest complaints with your SD-WAN vendor? (Select no more than three responses)
100 (Best)
0 (Worst)Vendor Provider
6655
32% Too complex
25% Application performance problems
18% Cloud datacenter deployment difficulties
14% Poor service and support
12% Lacks security
Q30 Q31
What are your biggest complaints with your SD-WAN provider?(Select no more than three responses)
What is the primary reason your organization has not yet or will not deploy an SD-WAN?
25% Too complex
20% Poor service and support
19% Unpredictable application
16% Cloud datacenters are difficult to deploy
13% Slow application performance
7% Lacks security43% Don’t know enough about it
28% No real need
13% Still under service provider contract
6% The products are too new or immature
6% The products' security has not been full vetted
4% The products are too expensive
2% Need a service with predictable loss/latency
19Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? The Future of SD-WAN. Today.
Q32
Which cloud applications does your company officially support?
75% 75%
Other None
30% 25% 12% 8%
Q33 Q34
What are three biggest problems with your company's current approach to cloud application access?
Which of the following approaches best describes how your company secures access to SaaS and the public cloud today and in the next 12 months?
30
40
33%
Visibility and control
33%
Performance
34%
Cost
40%
SecurityRemote access VPN services
22%
78%
Mobile VPN product
33%
67%
Direct
37%
63%
Cloud access security broker (CASB)
79%
21%
Today Within 12 Months
20Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? The Future of SD-WAN. Today.
Q35
Indicate the number of cloud datacenters in your organization.
10% 5+
20% 1
10% Don’t know
35%4-2
25%0
Q36
Q37
Indicate the cloud platforms on which your organization runs those cloud datacenters
Does your company currently pay for dedicated connection services (such as AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft ExpressRoute, Google Cloud Dedicated Interconnect)?
70% 75%
Other
53% 25% 12% 1%
38%No
15%Uncertain
31%Yes
16%Not currently, but planned for within the next 12 months
21Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? The Future of SD-WAN. Today.
Q38 Q39
What architecture does your organization use to secure its cloud datacenter(s)?
Which of the following best describes your users' experience accessing cloud-based datacenters?Premise-based firewall appliance only
16%
84%
Cloud firewall bundled with the service
29%
71%
Third-party virtual firewalls running in the cloud
46%
54%
Regional hubs with direct connection services
35%
65%
Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)
60%
40%
Today Within 12 Months
16% 9%
4%
75%
25%
70%
Excellent Acceptabale Problematic
MobileUser
FixedUser
Q40 Q41
Which category best describes your title or role?
Which industry best describes your organization?
37% Network Administrator/Analyst/Architect/Engineer/Manager
19% IT Director
17% IT Staff
4% Consultant (Technical)
11% Security Analyst/Architect/Engineer/Manager
8% CIO/VP IT
4% Other non-IT staff
18% Telecommunications
18% Computers & Electronics
12% Manufacturing
6% Business Services
5% Heathcare
4% Insurance
6% Retail
4% Finance
4% Construction
3% Chemicals
3% Utilities
2% Transportation
2% Education
2% Legal & Law Enforcement
2% Other
22Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore? The Future of SD-WAN. Today.
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ELIMINATION
SECURE CLOUD-BASED
SD-WAN
AFFORDABLE MPLS
ALTERNATIVE
CLOUD DATACENTER INTEGRATION
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22THE Future o f SD-WAN. Today.
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Cato Networks provides organizations with a cloud-based and secure global
SD-WAN. Cato delivers an integrated networking and security platform that
securely connects all enterprise locations, people, and data. Cato Cloud cuts
MPLS costs, improves performance between global locations and to cloud
applications, eliminates branch appliances, provides secure Internet access
everywhere, and seamlessly integrates mobile users and cloud datacenters
into the WAN.
Based in Tel Aviv, Israel, Cato Networks was founded in 2015 by cybersecurity
luminary Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies
and Imperva, and Gur Shatz, co-founder of Incapsula.
For more information:
www.CatoNetworks.com
@CatoNetworks
Future of the Enterprise WAN: Too Complex to Ignore?