Name: Creating an RFI for Software-Defined WAN
Start: 2015-11-12T20:30:00Z
End: 2015-11-12T20:30:56.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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VMware SASE™ converges cloud networking and cloud security service to deliver flexibility, agility, and scale for enterprises of all sizes.

In the era of Industry 4.0, with Industry 5.0 on the horizon, manufacturers are embracing digital transformation to gain greater efficiencies sustainably and remain competitive.  As a result, manufacturers are increasingly relying on critical applications and connected IoT devices.  It is important to ensure that the applications, connected devices, and personnel are always connected and secure to increase production uptime and safeguard sensitive data. Furthermore, the IT-OT integration at the manufacturing shopfloor is enabling manufacturers to unlock valuable insights providing a competitive edge.

In this webinar, we discuss how VMware Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) provides the foundation for your digital transformation journey. In addition, we will explore:

• The evolving digital transformation landscape in manufacturing
• How to identify the challenges and seize the opportunities posed by Industry 5.0
• The pivotal role of SASE in maintaining your competitive advantage
• Choosing VMware SASE: the pathway to next-level success

How SASE & Edge Technologies Drive Manufacturing Transformation in Industry 4.0

As the manufacturing industry undergoes a profound transformation driven by Industry 4.0, the integration of cloudification, data analytics, and automation has unlocked unparalleled opportunities for progress. Smart factories, brimming with interconnected devices, enable seamless production, automated material procurement, predictive maintenance, lean process optimization, and the emergence of dark factories monitored remotely for efficiency. 

Amidst this digital renaissance, however, lurk significant cybersecurity challenges. With the growing reliance on digital assets, including industrial IoT devices, user devices, applications, and data, the need for robust security measures has never been more critical. Safeguarding not only these assets but also the physical manufacturing sites, along with the well-being of employees, suppliers, and stakeholders, is paramount. 

In this webinar, we delve into the heart of these cybersecurity concerns and unveil how VMware SASE provides a multi-layered defense approach to fortify your manufacturing ecosystem. 

Watch now and gain insights into how VMware’s SASE solution can serve as your trusted partner in securing every facet of your Industry 4.0 journey, ensuring the safety and resilience of your digital manufacturing infrastructure.

Safeguarding Industry 4.0:  Defend Your Manufacturing Ecosystem with VMware SASE

In the fast-paced world of manufacturing, seamless operations are non-negotiable. VMware Edge Network Intelligence emerges as the solution of choice, offering you a comprehensive platform to establish baselines for essential services and applications, creating a solid foundation to measure performance. But that's just the beginning—the real strength of this solution lies in its ability to be your vigilant sentinel, providing real-time notifications when any performance deviations occur, be it at a single site or across the entire company.

Together, we'll embark on a captivating journey through the features, demonstrating how it revolutionizes network visibility by keeping you in the driver's seat. Witness how the solution's granular insights provide the crucial information needed to proactively address potential issues and safeguard your manufacturing processes against any disruptions.

In this webinar, you will learn:

> The pivotal role of network visibility in ensuring manufacturing continuity.
> Harnessing Edge Network Intelligence capabilities to establish performance baselines for critical services and applications.
> How real-time notifications empower your team to take immediate action on performance changes.

Don't miss this opportunity to elevate your manufacturing operations to the next level of efficiency and productivity. Secure your spot now to unleash the true potential of Edge Network Intelligence in providing unmatched network visibility and safeguarding your organization's continuity. 

Join us as we embark on a transformative journey towards fortified manufacturing continuity!

Fortifying Manufacturing Continuity with Edge Network Intelligence

When Sumitomo Bakelite Europe, a world leader in high-performance plastics solutions, replaced their costly MPLS data lines with VMware SD-WAN, they were able to reduce their monthly data costs by 60% -- without impacting business operations.

Watch this brief webinar to discover how VMware SD-WAN helped Sumitomo have better-performing data connections between its European sites, at a much lower cost.

“VMware SD-WAN has reduced the workload for the IT team, especially in case of issues. And if we expand to other European countries or elsewhere in the world, we only need to install an SD-WAN Edge locally and contact the local provider for a data line.” 
~ Mark Renders, European ICT Coordinator, Sumitomo Bakelite Europe

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How Sumitomo Bakelite Europe Ensures Uninterrupted Operations

Rapid growth in enterprise use of SaaS is significantly changing requirements for the WAN. Organizations need agility, flexibility, and scalability in the wide area network to take advantage of business opportunities. They need enhanced connectivity, optimized network availability and performance as well as secure, end-to-end access to the applications that drive productivity and growth across the organization. 

Additionally, multinational enterprises may have remote locations that present challenges with limited bandwidth availability to meet their needs. 

The solution to these challenges: Expereo and VMware managed SD-WAN. 

Join us for this informative presentation to learn:
• How Expereo and VMware work together to optimize your SD-WAN performance resulting in consistent and predictable application quality
• How our solution connects your users, locations and applications with the best internet access while providing full visibility, control and security at your fingertips
• Why our flexible and scalable solution enables faster time to market and accommodates your business growth

Speakers:
• Michael Leonard, Sr Product Marketing Manager, VMware
• Salim Khouri, Director of Global Solutions Engineering, Expereo

How SD-WAN Solves Connectivity & Performance Challenges Around the World

Securely connecting your HQ, regional offices, branch locations and remote workers is critical to the success of your business. SD-WAN and SASE optimizes your IT investment, minimizes downtime and increases productivity.  
The paradigm shift of hybrid office, branch and remote work, along with the migration to the cloud, has caused a need for businesses to reconfigure their networking infrastructure and reach their workforce’s locations. Whether working from home, bringing their own devices or using company provided equipment to conduct your business needs, your employees are demanding flexible, high performing and secure connectivity options.
The responsibility for providing a secure and positive experience to end-users while protecting corporate IP and assets rests on the shoulders of the IT department and leaders. Whether your business is connecting Dr’s offices and clinics, financial branch locations, retail stores, or remote workers to your centralized applications, SD-WAN and SASE technologies combined with proven connectivity standards can help give you peace of mind.
Let’s explore SD-WAN vs. SASE:
• SD-WAN is about connecting branches/remote locations to the network and the cloud 
• SASE is about securing the endpoints and connections to network and cloud

Join us to learn more about:
• Optimizing your team’s productivity while maximizing your IT investment
• Addressing Security Concerns
• Where each technology shines
• Supporting your business case

Maximize Branch & Remote Workforce Connectivity and Security with SD-WAN & SASE

Healthcare organizations are rapidly adopting digital technologies to improve patient care, reduce costs, and enhance operational efficiencies. However, implementing a digital-first strategy can be challenging without the right tools and frameworks in place. This is where Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) comes in - a cloud-native solution that provides secure access to applications and data from anywhere, at any time, and on any device.

In this webinar, we will explore how VMware SASE can help healthcare organizations build a digital-first strategy to improve patient outcomes and drive operational efficiencies. 

Attendees will learn:

• The benefits of a digital-first strategy in healthcare, including improved patient outcomes, increased efficiency, and reduced costs.

• The challenges of implementing a digital-first strategy in healthcare and how SASE can address them.

• Best practices for implementing a digital-first strategy with SASE, including selecting the right technology, developing a phased approach, and ensuring security and compliance.

• Real-world examples of how healthcare organizations have successfully implemented a digital-first strategy with SASE.

Accelerating Digital-First Healthcare with VMware SASE

Today’s retailer has a lot on their plate.
 
From executing a flawless curbside pickup to utilizing augmented reality to try on a new outfit, delivering an exceptional experience is the key to customer loyalty. However, legacy network architecture is holding them back. Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) is a game-changing technology that can provide retailers with the flexibility and control they need to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
 
In this webinar, retail veteran Gareth Jude, CEO of Think Uncommon, and VMware’s Fiona Douskou will discuss the latest retail trends and how a secure, reliable, and agile network infrastructure provides the foundation for today’s retailers to maximize their technology investments and deliver new revenue streams.
 
In this webinar, you’ll learn the following:
- Challenges faced by retailers today
- How do SASE and SD-WAN fit into solving these challenges for retailers?
- Outcomes from implementing a SASE and SD-WAN solution

About Our Speaker:

Gareth Jude is co-founder and CEO of ThinkUncommon, an Australian-based retail innovation consulting firm. Previously, Gareth was appointed Retail Industry Executive for Telstra's Industry Development Team, where he published six research papers on digital disruption in retail and founded the annual "Retail Innovation Summit." He has also held executive-level roles at a number of Australian retailers, including Woolworth's. Gareth is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Sydney.

Engaging Retail Experiences Demand an Agile Infrastructure: Fireside Chat

In higher education, the wireless network is the core backbone of campus connectivity. 

Wireless networks are still magic for the end user - more so because they "just work" at home. But with such high expectations, whenever something goes wrong, the first thing that gets blamed is the WiFi. Even within the IT department, the wireless network is often blindly blamed for the root cause of application issues or poor performance of SaaS services. While WiFi can be the root cause, it is often a combination of issues. 
 
In this webinar, you'll learn how VMware Edge Network Intelligence (formerly Nyansa Voyance) can help stop the blame game and quickly identify the root cause of the issues on your campus network. Leveraging a powerful AI engine, ENI learns what's normal for your network and quickly identifies what's wrong. These baselines can show whether a WiFi software update or vendor change will make things better or worse. Or clearly correlate application performance against WiFi performance to identify where the performance issues really exist. 
 
Join us for an in-depth look at how ENI can help you see into your network and find out what's really going on, to help you stop the WiFi blame.

Stop the Campus Wifi Blame with VMware Edge Network Intelligence

SASE solutions enable software-defined networking and security that help organizations securely adopt hybrid work and cloud services, all while improving both network performance and security posture. 

To help you quantify the potential business value of SASE, VMware commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by implementing VMware SASE. 

Join Nick Mayberry, Consultant at Forrester, to evaluate the potential financial impact of this solution on your organization. Learn how organizations may experience an ROI of 218% after deploying VMware SASE by improving technology, operations, and security costs.

Nick will be joined by Andre Kindness, a Forrester thought leader in enterprise network operations, architecture, and strategy. During the webinar, he will cover the business and technical drivers for WAN transformation, as well as the forcing functions that mesh security and networking technologies and operations together and enable the delivery of optimal and secure connectivity to all users and applications.

Analyst Bios

Nick Mayberry is a Consultant within Forrester’s Total Economic Impact practice. He has spent the past decade working as a financial and strategic advisor to technology companies, assisting with developing return-on-investment analyses, financial modeling, and forecasting, fundraising, as well as growth and innovation strategies. 

Andre Kindness serves IT Infrastructure & Operations Professionals. He is a leading expert on enterprise network operations and architecture. His research focuses on networking technology and strategy. In particular, he is a leading visionary in defining the network architecture and technology needed inside retail stores, hospitals, manufacturing sites, and hospitality venues.

SASE and the Significant Economic Impact on Our Customers

Modern-day healthcare organizations and physician groups have one priority on their mind: providing their patients with the best care. If your systems are down or worse, compromised, then your practice is unable to care for or see your patients. Reliable connectivity and cybersecurity are critical components to ensure their patient’s information remains confidential and electronic records are accessible any time. Join our webinar to learn from experts at VMware and Meriplex on how leverage SD-WAN / SASE to protect patient revenue and ensuring your doctors stay happy.

Presenters:
- Rob Ford, VP Solution Engineer, Meriplex
- Mike McWilliams, SVP of Healthcare, Meriplex
- Michael Leonard, Sr Product Marketing Manager, VMware

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Providing a Lifeline for Healthcare Practices with SD-WAN and Security

Learn how SD-WAN with VMware from Shaw Business can help your business solve complex network challenges. Experts from Shaw Business and VMware will explain the current challenges facing IT departments and how businesses can mitigate these issues for smoother day to day operations for large enterprises and small businesses.

Speakers:
- Dale Turner, VP, Marketing, Pricing & Planning, Shaw Business
- Rob Myatt, VP, Enterprise Service Provider & Carrier Solutions, Shaw Business
- Michael Leonard, Director of Product Marketing, VMware

Solving Complex Network Challenges with SD-WAN

VMware SD-WAN enables reliable, efficient and secure access to virtual desktops and multi-cloud applications. Join us in this webinar to learn how Horizon VDI clients in a global distributed enterprise benefit from rich experience when accessing virtual desktops and cloud applications.

Digital Workspace Transformation with VMware Horizon and VMware SD-WAN

The Tolly Group puts VMware SD-WAN to the test VMware and Intel commissioned the Tolly Group to benchmark quality of service and remediation capabilities of VMware SD-WAN™ to improve end user experience for VoIP and work-from-anywhere applications using a dual WAN link deployment. The results? VMware SD-WAN delivered good user experiences even with 15% packet loss on a single link. Using Dynamic Multipath Optimization™, VMware SD-WAN delivered excellent voice quality scores despite 20 ms of jitter and 150 ms of latency introduced during testing. Intel developer tools also help optimize SD-WAN packet processing, speed and encryption. Watch this two-minute webinar for a quick take on the results from Kevin Tolly, founder of the Tolly Group.

Presenters:
- Shefali Chinni, SASE Product Marketing, VMware
- Kevin Tolly, Founder, The Tolly Group
- Tarun Viswanathan, Principal Engineer, Intel
- Swapnil Hendre, Director for Solution Infrastructure and Design, VMware

Tolly Group validated VMware SD-WAN speed, quality for remote work

As enterprises adopt SaaS and Internet applications, today’s anywhere workforce is exposed to a changing threat landscape. IT needs visibility into sanctioned and unsanctioned applications, exercising control and compliance while protecting users and infrastructure. VMware Cloud Web Security is a cloud hosted service of VMware SASE that ensures users can access their applications without the fear of threats or concern about compliance – and IT can keep the agile workforce productive.

Catalyst for Cloud Migration

VMware SD-WAN has achieved FIPS 140-2 Certification, a benchmark requirement to meet security compliance for non-military government deployments. As cyber attacks and threats continue to grow rapidly, it is imperative that ever-larger amounts of digital data, at rest and in motion, are secured. FIPS 140-2 certification ensures security of cryptographic modules such as hardware and software encryption, authentication, digital signatures, and key management.

Join us to learn how VMware SD-WAN continues to evolve to support critical security capabilities. VMware SD-WAN meets rigorous industry standards, ensuring Federal customers can confidently protect their information, operations, and assets against threats.



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Extended SD-WAN Security for Federal Customers

You’ve studied, researched and learned a lot about SD-WAN.  Now it is time to put the vendors to the test and find out how their SD-WAN solution will really solve your problems.

Join us as Jim Metzler, analyst, researcher and founder at Ashton, Metzler & Associates, shares the tools, templates, and information you’ll want to include when you issue an RFI (request for information) to SD-WAN vendors. He discusses the architectural alternatives for implementing SD-WAN along with sharing his research and trends in wide area networking.

Attendees will learn to evaluate and outline their organization’s goals, guidelines and timetable in concise fashion. This will produce the most informative results in terms of overall solution architecture and WAN infrastructure, as well as management and security capabilities. They’ll leave with an actionable plan for engaging with and comparing vendors, and will be well equipped to make the best decisions about choosing and implementing SD-WAN technology.

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