Unifed SASE – Solution for Modern Work Environments

In today’s digital age, the traditional workplace is evolving. Remote work—at least to some degree—is here to stay. Despite the growing trend and many benefits of flexibility, improved work-life balance, and increased productivity, it has also introduced a slew of challenges and areas of opportunity for businesses—chief among them: ensuring secure, reliable, and efficient connectivity for dispersed teams. In response to this shift, businesses must prioritize innovative technologies and strategies that not only accommodate remote workers but also fortify the ever-expanding digital perimeter. Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has emerged as a pivotal solution to address the intricate demands of modern work environments.

Unified SASE is not just another tech buzzword; it’s the answer to modern connectivity and security challenges. By combining Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) and Security Service Edge (SSE) into one cohesive platform, it gives businesses the best of both worlds: optimized network performance and leading security protocols.

 

How Does Unified SASE Address Remote Workforce Challenges?

From unstable internet connections to security vulnerabilities, remote work comes with its share of unique, and potentially crippling, challenges. Unified SASE addresses many of these concerns by offering:

• Improved Connectivity: With SASE, remote employees can reliably access company resources without the hiccups of traditional VPNs. Intelligent routing ensures traffic takes the most efficient path, minimizing latency, while the unified SASE approach integrates all components for both security and network performance under one umbrella.
• Enhanced Security: As the perimeter of the office expands to homes and coffee shops, so do security risks. Unified SASE solutions can centralize and bolster your defenses. By applying universal policies and streamlining security management across all traffic and locations, you get infinitely more robust protection for your dispersed teams.
• Scalability: As your business grows, so does your remote workforce. These solutions are inherently scalable, which makes it easy to onboard new employees and expand your network infrastructure without compromising on security or performance.
• Simplified Management: Juggling multiple solutions for connectivity and security presents a logistical recipe for disaster. With a this solution, your IT teams can easily configure, monitor, and adjust settings through a centralized dashboard, ensuring consistent policies and performance across the board.

Powering the Future of Remote Work

The remote workforce is here to stay, and your business needs to keep up with the growing trend to remain competitive. Unified SASE offers an integrated and adaptive framework that helps you ensure optimal performance while maintaining the integrity of your security posture.

Unified SASE represents the next step in the evolution of secure, efficient connectivity—and Aruba Networks is at the forefront of this revolution. Offering advanced expertise in Aruba Networks’ SASE technology, Zunesis can help you implement unified this solution to streamline your network management, bolster security across all remote endpoints, and guarantee a seamless, high-performance experience for your dispersed teams.

For more information about unified SASE, contact us here.

HPE Acquisition of Silver Peak

 

DENVER, CO  October 1, 2020 – Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has completed the acquisition of Silver Peak, an SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) leader.  For many years, Silver Peak has been a strong leader in the WAN Optimization and SD-WAN market.  Silver Peak is now part of Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.

The acquisition will enhance and strengthen Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform). This helps to advance enterprise cloud transformation with a comprehensive edge-to-cloud networking solution. It covers all aspects of wired, wireless local area networking (LAN) and wide area networking (WAN).

Steve Shaffer, CEO of Zunesis, a long-time Platinum Aruba and HPE Partner, says “Silver Peak provides a key piece of a comprehensive end-to-end Aruba solution offering. It creates additional value for our clients providing reliable and secure work-from-home and branch office connectivity.  Work from home and branch office solutions just got a lot easier to deploy, secure and manage thanks to the combination of Silver Peak and Aruba’s SD-Branch & remote work solutions.  All of us at Zunesis are very excited about these new developments.”

 

WAN Transformation

“WAN transformation is a key component of HPE’s Intelligent Edge and edge-to-cloud vision and growth strategy,” said Antonio Neri, president and CEO of HPE. “Armed with a comprehensive SD-WAN portfolio with the addition of Silver Peak, we will accelerate the delivery of a true distributed cloud model and cloud experience for all applications and data wherever they live.”

“I am very excited to welcome the Silver Peak team to the Aruba family,” said Keerti Melkote, president of Intelligent Edge for Hewlett Packard Enterprise and founder of Aruba Networks. “With the evolving nature of the hybrid workplace, enterprises are looking to extend connectivity to branch locations and enable secure work-from-home experiences. By combining Silver Peak’s advanced SD-WAN technology with Aruba’s SD-Branch and remote worker solutions, customers can simplify branch office and WAN deployments to empower remote workforces, enable cloud-connected distributed enterprises, and transform business operations without compromise.”

As part of the acquisition, Silver Peak founder and CEO David Hughes, will join HPE as the senior vice president of the WAN business within Aruba.  “I look forward to leading the new WAN business unit within Aruba and accelerating our customers’ edge-to-cloud transformation initiatives,” said David Hughes, founder of Silver Peak and senior vice president of the WAN business at Aruba. “Digital transformation, cloud-first IT architectures, and the need to support a mobile work-from-anywhere workforce are driving enterprises to rethink the network edge. The combination of Silver Peak and Aruba will uniquely enable customers to realize the full transformational promise of these IT megatrends.”

 

SD-WAN Technologies

Enterprises are increasingly investing in SD-WAN technologies as legacy WAN architectures incur relatively high costs. They are cumbersome to operate, manage and secure. Aruba and Silver Peak share a common vision and goal to provide simplicity, scalability, and application-awareness at the edge of the network. Aruba’s all-in-one SD-Branch portfolio and remote worker solutions, combined with Silver Peak’s self-driving SD-WAN and WAN optimization solutions, allow Aruba to better address a wide set of customer requirements in order to capitalize on a promising and growing market opportunity.

At the same time, enterprises are also moving applications, including Internet of Things (IOT) and real-time analytics, to the edge of the network.  Aruba is uniquely positioned to help organizations to support this network evolution while providing the needed connectivity to Public cloud resources.  “We believe HPE Aruba are making all the right moves to help us offer the best and most reliable networking solutions for our customers large and small” says Shaffer.  The next few years are going to be very exciting!

About Zunesis

Zunesis, headquartered in Englewood, Colorado has been an HPE Platinum Partner for 16+ years.  Zunesis has expert engineers in HPE server, storage and networking technologies along with common software applications like VMware and Microsoft.  We serve clients large and small but our sweet spot is the mid-market organization – the heartbeat of the US economy.  Our mission is to make the lives of our clients and community better. www.zunesis.com