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Palo Alto grows SD-WAN platform buy snapping-up CloudGenix for $420M

Network World

With an eye towards significantly bolstering its edge networking offerings, Palo Alto has entered into an agreement to buy cloud-based SD-WAN vendor CloudGenix for $420 million in cash. To read this article in full, please click here

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Survey finds SD-WANs are hot, but satisfaction with telcos is not

Network World

This week SD-WAN vendor Cato Networks announced the results of its Telcos and the Future of the WAN in 2019 survey. The study was a mix of companies of all sizes, with 42% being enterprise-class (over 2,500 employees). More than 70% had a network with more than 10 locations, and almost a quarter (24%) had over 100 sites.

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SASE or SSE? Don’t let hype distract from enterprise needs

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But SASE hasn’t quite materialized in the way Gartner – which first coined the term in a 2019 white paper – initially expected. The SASE model combines network security functions with WAN capabilities, delivering the security elements in the cloud and using SD-WAN at the edge or in the cloud.

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What is SASE? How the cloud marries networking and security

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Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a network architecture that combines software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN ) and security functionality into a unified cloud service that promises simplified WAN deployments, improved efficiency and security, and application-specific bandwidth policies. billion by 2025. billion by 2025.

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Palo Alto grows SD-WAN platform by snapping-up CloudGenix for $420M

Network World

With an eye towards significantly bolstering its edge networking offerings, Palo Alto has entered into an agreement to buy cloud-based SD-WAN vendor CloudGenix for $420 million in cash. To read this article in full, please click here

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Buyer’s guide: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE)

Network World

In 2019, Gartner created the term SASE to describe a cloud-based service that combines networking and security to give remote workers safe access to internet-based resources. Download our editors’ PDF SASE and SSE enterprise buyer’s guide today! As previously noted, SASE adds SD-WAN. But both terms are relevant today.

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Netskope extends data security with Dasera acquisition

Network World

Dasera, founded in 2019, created a product focused on finding and assessing data in structured and semi-structured data sets stored in hyperscaler platforms such as AWS and Azure, platform-as-a-service repositories such as Databricks and Snowflake, and in on-premises data stores. Why is the transition from SD-WAN to SASE so painful?

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