SD-WAN, not just about cost saving
Much of the SD-WAN discussion is focused about the cost savings driven by offloading as much data onto public circuits, as opposed to keeping it on MPLS. But not all territories across the world have such a big difference in cost between public and private WAN options.
And in this case it is critical to emphasise that:
- cost is not just in how much you pay for the WAN, but also how much you spend to bring the network up and run it; a branch can be brought up in minutes (as opposed to hours), and VeloCloud then allows you to set up policy extremely fast (and consistent), across as many sites as you have, and support your users and business critical apps; this makes the business much more dynamic, and allows them to reap the benefits of digitalisation; and let's not forget about troubleshooting, as now it is much easier to identify the cause of the outage and fix it remotely, resulting in less financial and reputational loss for the business
- deploying a healthy next-generation WAN allows the businesses to grow and scale, by introducing the latest applications, while making sure that end-users working with them have the best experience and improved productivity
Check the video bellow for more. As a bonus, in the last 10 minutes I'm talking about how VeloCloud fits into the wider VMware portfolio: