CloudGenix, the
software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) pioneer, today announced the
Instant On (ION) 3000v, an SD-WAN platform for virtualizing the remote
office. The ION 3000v Application-Defined Fabric allows enterprises to
deploy applications anywhere based on App-SLAs, enforcing security,
performance and compliance requirements. This approach establishes a new
defense-in-depth security model for direct cloud access from the remote
office, extending application policies across the hybrid cloud.
"The role of networking teams is evolving," said Josh
Schertzer, managing director at Blackstone. "It's the networking team's
job to deliver applications from the cloud and data centers to employees
around the globe, with extremely high availability, performance and
security. Virtualizing the remote office and reducing WAN costs are a
priority for many enterprises. The industry needs an application-defined
platform for the remote office that's much more than the
hybrid-WAN-only approaches we've seen traditionally. The goal is for IT
to deploy applications anywhere in the world within minutes based on
App-SLAs -- without complex routing re-engineering."
Modern applications, including cloud and collaboration apps,
impose new requirements on the WAN. According to Microsoft's guidelines
for Office 365 adoption, enterprises should plan for up to 4X increase
in WAN bandwidth, and enable direct-to-cloud access from the remote
office to avoid sub-optimal performance.
"The increasing use of modern applications requires that
enterprises look beyond traditional networking to new ways of building
and managing WANs," said Jim Metzler, founder and vice president of
Ashton, Metzler and Associates. "Modern applications combine multiple
services, are collaborative, and can be hosted anywhere. This requires
enterprises to move from managing network SLAs to application SLAs."
The WAN must support rich experiences offered by modern
applications -- rich media, collaboration apps, voice apps -- all of
which can reside in your data center or in the cloud, and put enormous
strains on WAN design and the security architecture. By moving cloud
access directly to the remote office, the CloudGenix application-defined
fabric creates a secondary security perimeter, ensuring that only
"white listed" applications are allowed to leave the remote office
directly and that malicious traffic is prevented from entering the
branch.
"Enterprises face multiple issues with legacy hardware models
for the remote office," said Kumar Ramachandran, founder and CEO of
CloudGenix. "Innovation is held hostage to depreciation cycles --
multiple pieces of hardware to maintain, complex routing protocols to
manage, and inability to deploy best-of-breed solutions. With our
application-defined fabric, enterprises are no longer hostage to their
hardware vendors, and have the freedom to deploy their applications
anywhere, enhancing both application performance and security posture."
The ION3000v is available immediately. For more information, please visit www.cloudgenix.com.