Versa Networks announced findings from a commissioned Total Economic Impact
(TEI) study conducted by Forrester Consulting. The study, Total
Economic Impact of Dell Virtual Edge Platform (VEP), commissioned by Dell
Technologies, revealed that organizations using Dell
VEPs powered by Intel processors running Versa Operating System (VOS)
realize benefits of $1.53 million over three years versus costs of $663,000,
resulting in a net present value (NPV) of $864,000 and a return on investment
(ROI) of 130 percent, with the combined solution paying for itself in nine
months.
To
better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this
investment, Forrester interviewed four enterprise customers with experience
using Dell VEPs powered by Intel processors running Versa Operating System
(VOS) in a secure software-defined
wide area network (SD-WAN) environment. These
organizations range from serving U.S. and Europe to global operations, in
industries described as financial services and banking; oil and gas equipment
services; a SD-WAN service provider; and localization, translation, and
videogame testing. To create a framework to quantify benefits, Forrester
constructed a financial model representative of the interviews using the TEI
methodology and risk-adjusted the financial model based on issues and concerns
of the interviewees' organizations. The model measured a three-year ROI based
on customer and Forrester interviews, and financial analysis.
According to the study, "By implementing the Dell VEP devices running the Versa
Operating System (VOS), users can enhance their existing digital networking
stack to promote the efficiency of data transfer throughout their
organizations. The senior network engineer for a localization, translation, and
videogame testing organization said: ‘The preinstalled Versa software offers
remote-access VPN. With our Dell VEP devices already in place, we can easily
start utilizing that without having to buy anything else.'"
The independent study found that
prior to using Dell VEP and Versa, the
organizations used a combination of networking technologies and vendors to
manage their networks. Their solutions were limited, slow, and lacked newer
technology integrations. Outages were frequent and expensive, and management
continually fielded complaints regarding connection speed and downtime. The
organizations also faced global supply chain and product quality issues.
According to the study, "The central platform for managing the combined Dell VEP,
Intel, and Versa solution allows organizations to monitor and gather accurate
data across all appliances and realize efficiencies in responding to that data.
One manager explained: ‘With the Dell VEP and Versa combination, we get
components that manage the whole solution, all the appliances at all the sites
and all the configurations. Now we can do that all in one place, whereas
before, it was going to every single router when you needed to make a change.
So the centralized management, logging, and reporting have been key to us.'"
Based
on the interviews, Forrester constructed a TEI framework, a composite company,
and an ROI analysis that illustrates the areas financially affected. The composite
company is representative of the four companies that Forrester interviewed and
is used to present the aggregate financial analysis. The resulting composite
organization was characterized as a U.S.-based enterprise in the financial
services industry maintaining global operations; having an annual revenue
totalling $5 billion; and managing 50 branch offices, increasing to 60 by Year
Three.
According to the study, with Dell VEP devices powered by Intel processors running
VOS, organizations found a cost-effective solution that met networking
requirements, supported their SD-WAN strategy, and came from a vendor that
could deliver reliably worldwide. Quantified benefits attributable to
Dell VEP and Versa include:
- Avoided unnecessary purchases, with a three-year
total savings of $216,000
- Employee productivity gains from improved supply
chain, with a three-year total savings of $237,500
- IT resource time saved, with a three-year total
savings of $335,160
- Multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) cost
savings, with a three-year total savings of $1,058,063
Unquantified benefits that
customers experience include a reliable partnership with Dell; centralized
management, reporting and logging; improved visibility and analytics; upgraded
security posture; enhanced user experience due to improved traffic steering;
and flexibility.
A
director of IT network infrastructure at an oil and gas equipment and services
organization commented on the combined value of Dell VEP and VOS SD-WAN: "The
benefit is that I have a central policy and can push it everywhere. The
activation of a device at a new location is a lot easier as well. You just pull
the configuration from the directory - you don't have to individually program
it."
"The customers featured in this
study have established Versa as their
strategic partner for addressing their complex secure access, networking and
digital transformation needs," said Michael Wood, Chief Marketing Officer for
Versa Networks. "Versa SASE delivers unique integration of networking and
security SASE services - including SD-WAN - via the cloud or, if customers
prefer, delivered on-premises or as a blended combination of both. We feel this
study by Forrester Consulting highlights the experiences of our customers and
affirms the employee productivity gains, IT resource time saved, and upgraded
security posture that organizations can achieve with Versa."
Versa SASE delivers tightly integrated services via the cloud,
on-premises, or as a blended combination of both via VOS with a Single-Pass
Parallel Processing architecture and managed through a single pane of glass.
Versa began delivering SASE services such as VPN, Secure SD-WAN, Edge Compute Protection, Next-Generation Firewall,
Next-Generation Firewall as a Service, Secure Web Gateway (SWG), and zero trust
network access (ZTNA) more than five years ago. Versa uniquely provides
contextual security based on user, role, device, application, location,
security posture of the device, and content.
For more details, download the Total
Economic Impact Study at https://www.delltechnologies.com/asset/en-us/products/networking/industry-market/vep-forrester-tei-study.pdf.external.