Talari Networks today announced its new ‘Cloud Connect' solution
for today's hybrid multi-cloud enterprise networks. Talari's
multi-tenant Cloud Connect platform ensures businesses maintain
MPLS-class reliability and Quality of Experience (QoE) when accessing
multiple SaaS and public cloud services. Mirroring the reliability
benefits of Talari's failsafe SD-WAN site-to-site connectivity, Cloud
Connect helps enterprises avoid the time and cost burden around standing
up and managing cloud infrastructure. This cloud-first approach helps
enterprises realize cost savings and independence from proprietary
carrier lock-in.
Cloud
Connect prevents carrier service lock-in with reliable and predictable
multilink, multi-path access to SaaS and cloud-based services. Talari's
solution enables cost-effective and efficient high QoE connectivity to
Software as a Service (SaaS), Unified Communications as a Service
(UCaaS), cloud service gateways, and managed Network as a Service (NaaS)
offerings through a new high-availability connection called a Cloud
Conduit. Underlying the immediate commercial appeal of the Talari Cloud
Connect solution, Talari is announcing the support of several leading
UCaaS, NaaS and Cloud Service providers (CSPs). Technology partners including RingCentral, Evolve IP, Pure IP, Meta Networks and Mode are the first to offer Cloud Connect support. Value added reseller partners endorsing Cloud Connect include Avant, Bridgepoint and Teneo.
"Prior
to working with RingCentral and Talari, our firm's cloud services were
dependent on separate and expensive dedicated circuits for messaging,
voice, video, meetings and conferencing," said Jason Kasch, CIO at Structural Group.
"The addition of Talari's new Cloud Connect solution within
RingCentral's Unified Communication offering helps boost service
reliability while simplifying cloud management and network
troubleshooting."
Practical Cloud Connect Enterprise Use Cases
Reliable,
predictable connectivity to multiple third-party cloud services is
critical to enterprises' business strategies. Talari Cloud Connect
unifies the management of enterprise connectivity to SaaS and
cloud-based services through the shared administration of a Talari
innovation called Cloud Conduits. These Cloud Conduits offer multi-link,
multipath, reliable connections between customer locations and the
Talari Cloud Connect technology running at the CSP's Point of Presence
(PoP), along with shared administration. Cloud Conduits deliver the same
failsafe benefits of Talari's patented SD-WAN technology for SaaS and
cloud access, without requiring enterprise customers to deploy and
maintain SD-WAN software in the cloud.
"As
enterprises embrace hybrid IT and multi-cloud postures in pursuit of
their digital-transformation objectives, they are compelled to overhaul
their WAN architectures and management models to reliably, securely and
cost-effectively deliver the cloud-based applications and services that
are becoming increasingly valuable to business outcomes," said Brad
Casemore, Research Vice President, Datacenter Networks at IDC. "Talari
Cloud Connect responds to the challenges posed by multi-cloud, offering
an approach to SD-WAN that addresses the dynamic connectivity,
bandwidth, and security requirements at the intelligent edge."
The
UCaaS market is a popular time and money-saving enterprise option.
Analysts, including IDC Research, predict the UCaaS market growing to
more than $25 Billion by 2021. Talari's Cloud Connect technology helps
leading UCaaS partners deliver a superior platinum-quality service for
loss- and latency-sensitive real-time applications. CSPs announcing
support today include RingCentral, Pure IP, and Evolve IP,
underscoring the immediate UCaaS appeal. High-value UCaaS applications
from these partners include managed Voice over IP (VoIP), SIP trunking,
contact centre, HD voice and videoconferencing, instant messaging and
presence, desktop sharing, and online collaborative workspaces.
Improved
enterprise cloud application access via cloud-based PoP gateways is
another natural Cloud Connect use case. Mode is using Talari's Cloud
Connect to power a cloud service gateway ‘easy button' time and
cost-savings approach for deployment. Reliable SD-WAN access is
delivered to the provider PoP closest to the SaaS / Cloud service.
Partner Cloud Managed Services Gains
Further delivering on the promise of Managed Service Provider (MSP) offerings, Mode will
offer enterprises a more advanced solution using the same Talari Cloud
Connect technology. Mode will combine Cloud Connect technology with its
own reliable, flexible, cost-effective Cloud Private Network to enable
reliable NaaS access to every enterprise cloud service, SaaS and
Internet location. This NaaS scenario sees each enterprise Talari SD-WAN
location leverage Talari Cloud Connect for accessing the local Mode PoP
closest to the enterprise location. From there, traffic flows over
Mode's reliable private backbone for efficient, reliable, predictable
access to all sites.
"Talari's
customers are heavily invested in complex cloud business applications
to securely power everyday operations reliably and at scale," said
Patrick Sweeney, CEO at Talari Networks. "Talari Cloud Connect ensures
secure, reliable, predictable access to SaaS and cloud-based network
services, without enterprises being forced to bear the burden and
complexity of deploying and managing SD-WAN infrastructure in the cloud.
Cloud Connect helps enterprises and their cloud services providers
deliver full multi-link visibility, reliability and bi-directional QoS
while accessing cloud/SaaS-based apps."
Talari
Cloud Connect technology also enables reliable, predictable first/last
mile access to cloud-based security and infrastructure services. Talari
partner Meta Networks provides
employees, contractors and partners with secure remote access to
corporate applications in private data centres or the cloud. This Talari-Meta partnership addresses two of the most important trends in IT today - cloud migration and always-secure employee mobility.
Pricing and Availability
Rapid
deployment of Cloud Connect occurs through multiple high-traffic routes
to market. Talari will offer a multi-tenant Cloud Connect PoP
technology in the cloud. Communication Service Providers can obtain the
Cloud Connect PoP platform functionality at no additional cost for
connecting with Talari SD-WAN customers. Talari Cloud Connect software
is available starting in October to existing customers with no
additional cost.