Versa Networks, the leader in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has been recognised by Gartner as a Leader in the 2021 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, extending its leadership two years in a row.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not surprising as Versa continues to invest significantly in R&D, sales, and marketing, demonstrating its strength in the ability to execute and completeness of vision.”<\/p>\n
“Versa continues to accelerate its success with both innovative product initiatives and pervasive customer deployments.”<\/p>\n
“Versa was granted its 15th patent for SASE and customers have been reporting an 80% reduction in costs when deploying Versa SASE,\u201d says Andre Kannemeyer, CTO for Duxbury Networking, local distributors of Versa technology.<\/p>\n
WAN Edge Infrastructure is defined as \u201cproducts and associated functions that provide network connectivity across the WAN\u201d that includes \u201cincumbent and emerging vendors from adjacent markets (for example, routing, security, WAN optimisation and SD-WAN), each bringing differentiators and limitations.”<\/p>\n
“It also includes zero trust network access (ZTNA) functionality for remote workers in lieu of traditional virtual private network (VPN) solutions as part of SASE, which combines SD-WAN and cloud security into an integrated, orchestrated architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Gartner report says: \u201cDigital transformation, remote work and cloud adoption drive WAN edge infrastructure choices for infrastructure and operations leaders in charge of networking.”<\/p>\n
“They should select SD-WAN solutions and SASE deployments to connect enterprise sites and applications.”<\/p>\n
“By 2024, more than 70% of software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) customers will have implemented a secure access service edge (SASE) architecture, compared with 40% in 2021.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2021 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure report evaluated 15 different vendors on several critical criteria and positioned Versa Networks in the Leaders Quadrant.<\/p>\n
Versa Networks was recognised for its Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.<\/p>\n
\u201cGartner expects some aspects of the SD-WAN market to evolve into the SASE market, where security is delivered from the cloud\u2026We expect to see more single-vendor, integrated SASE solutions incorporating the cloud security and SD-WAN branch components,\u201d Gartner also states.<\/p>\n
\u201cVersa has invested significantly in R&D, sales and marketing, demonstrating its strength in the Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision as a SASE leader.”<\/p>\n
“We believe this recent recognition is on back of a record year for the company, where the growth of the remote workforce due to the COVID-19 pandemic saw organisations across the world accelerate their digital transformation initiatives and turn to flexible and secure solutions such as SD-WAN and SASE to address their networking and security needs,\u201d says Kannemeyer.<\/p>\n
According to Gartner: \u201cIn this market, WAN edge vendors now offer support for remote workers as part of their WAN edge solution.”<\/p>\n
“This capability has moved from an occasional request to a frequent differentiator when evaluating suppliers.”<\/p>\n
“We are seeing this move away from remote VPN and extending the SD-WAN fabrics directly to remote workers or with zero trust network access (ZTNA).”<\/p>\n
“Few vendors have native ZTNA offerings, and even fewer have them integrated with SD-WAN orchestration.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe Versa Networks\u2019 placement in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant validates its strategy and strong execution it set out to achieve since Day One.”<\/p>\n
“Versa has delivered a truly superior secure networking platform that is aligned with where the market is today, and headed in the future.”<\/p>\n
“Its purpose-built SASE solutions with SD-WAN functionality power enterprise networks globally for connecting users to applications anywhere, anytime.”<\/p>\n
“The Versa platform is differentiated with tightly integrated security, superior application and network performance, sophisticated analytics, and advanced software-defined and network functionalities for cloud and on-premise deployments,\u201d says Kannemeyer.<\/p>\n
For more information contact Duxbury Networking, +27 (0) 11 351 9800, info@duxnet.co.za<\/a><\/strong>, www.duxbury.co.za<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Versa Networks, the leader in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) has been recognised by Gartner as a Leader in the 2021 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, extending its leadership two years in a row.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":534844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[14323],"class_list":["post-534824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-duxbury-networking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535290,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534824\/revisions\/535290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}