Versa Networks, a leader in Secure SD-WAN and SASE, today announced that Gartner, the leading
provider of research and analysis on the global information technology
industry, has given it the highest Product Score for the Large Global WAN Use
Case for Versa (VOS). Versa also scored second highest for the Security-Sensitive
and Cloud-First WAN Use Cases for Versa (VOS) in the 2020 Gartner Critical
Capabilities for WAN Edge Infrastructure report.
According to Gartner, "SD-WAN product differentiation is primarily based on feature
breadth and/or depth, specifically on security, application performance
optimization and cloud features...Differentiate solutions by comparing their
feature depth vs. feature breadth in SD-WAN features, native application
performance optimization, operational features/simplicity, security/SASE
capabilities, and cloud onramp capabilities."
Evaluating 20 SD-WAN
products and services, the Critical Capabilities report is useful for
organizations that may seek to identify vendors that best fit their specific
use cases. It details the critical capabilities that led to Gartner naming
Versa Networks a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure2
report, including: SD-WAN features, Security
features, Small platform flexibility, Scalability, Operational features,
Deployment flexibility, Cloud features, and App performance optimization.
A complimentary copy of
the full report is available from the Versa website at https://versa-networks.com/resources/reports/gartner-critical-capabilities-for-wan-edge-infrastructure-2020/
According to Gartner, "WAN edge solutions can be
combined with cloud-resident functionality for overarching policy and
operational control, as well as cloud gateways and cloud security in a SASE
architecture. The result is a simpler, more streamlined remote office footprint
(especially for lean IT organizations) that enables organizations to better
deal with more dynamic and distributed traffic flows resulting from greater use
of cloud and internet resources."
With thousands of customers,
hundreds of thousands of sites, and a significant number of very large
financial institutions, retailers, manufactures, high-tech companies, public
sector, and healthcare customers, Versa has demonstrated that it is the leader
in large global WAN, Secure SD-WAN, and SD-WAN deployments. The Versa Operating
System (VOS) is the foundational architecture for on-premises and cloud
deployments of Secure SD-WAN and SASE globally. The distributed system of Versa
Cloud Gateways enables these services to extend to the front doorstep of nearly
every cloud service around the world and are the source of networking and
network security for cloud native SASE services.
"We believe receiving the highest score in the Large Global WAN Use Case, and second highest
scores in the Security-Sensitive WAN and Cloud-First WAN Use Cases for
Versa (VOS), confirms our ability to
meet the unique challenges and needs our customers face every day by uniquely
delivering leading SASE and SD-WAN capabilities globally and locally to some of
the biggest enterprises in the world," said Kelly Ahuja, CEO with Versa
Networks. "To us, this is an important time for Versa, and this recognition
from Gartner comes on the heels of Versa being placed in the Leaders quadrant
of the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for WAN
Edge Infrastructure."
Versa is the leader in Secure
SD-WAN and SASE, uniquely combining full-featured SD-WAN, comprehensive
integrated security, scalable advanced routing, genuine multi-tenancy, and
sophisticated analytics on-premises and in the cloud to meet WAN Edge
requirements for small to very large enterprises, as well as Service Providers.
Versa enables secure, scalable, and reliable enterprise-wide networking,
increasing multi-cloud application performance and dramatically driving down
costs (CapEx and OpEx). Versa Secure SD-WAN and SASE is available on-premises,
hosted through Service Providers, cloud-delivered, and via the Versa Titan
service for Lean IT.