VMware SD-WAN and AT&T: The Best of Both Worlds, Together

As enterprises worldwide pursue digital transformation initiatives, they increasingly embrace cloud-based architectures and services to meet their objectives. With employees and customers dispersed across geographic locations, there is unrelenting pressure on enterprise networks to become more agile, flexible, and easier to deploy and manage.

To meet these evolving demands, Google and VMware are collaborating to offer branch-to-branch connectivity over Google’s network as well as branch-to-cloud connectivity. SD-WAN Edge Service allows companies to deploy in minutes to enhance application performance for remote and branch office users. Attend this webinar to learn more.

Hear from industry-leading experts from AT&T and VMware as they discuss the challenges and solutions for managing the converged edge. Learn how businesses can turn network transformation complexities into simplified solutions with SD-WAN and SASE technologies.

As networking and security become a more unified platform for secure access network, security technologists must modify business support process to enable these integrated solutions. Executives are increasingly recognizing that the real value is not a DIY solution, but the importance of partnering with a managed service provider who has demonstrated industry-leading success.

Presented by:
- Lorenzo McWilliams, Edge Solutions Specialist, AT&T
- Michael Leonard, Director Product Marketing Manager, VMware
- Josh Mishio, Director System Engineering, VMware
- Brandi Franklin, Technical Sales Director, AT&T
- Will Eborall, Vice President Product Marketing, AT&T

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In Frost & Sullivan’s Global Cloud survey, 52% of the respondents said they have deployed Cloud IaaS and 42% said they currently use hybrid cloud. While cloud adoption continues to grow, enterprises have generally struggled to implement and maintain a secure, high-performing WAN that allows for efficient access to cloud-based applications across their user base. If you consider the distributed nature of enterprise applications, and now the increasingly distributed nature of employees working from home, the traditional branch networking method of backhauling traffic (from users and devices) to a centralized location is highly inefficient.

Furthermore, the rise in remote working and distributed users accessing cloud-hosted applications means that the enterprise perimeter is no longer limited to users within the company site. Think about it: if your applications are in the cloud, and the users are at home or at a branch location (spread across the globe), why is your organization’s security sitting at the headquarters location? The traditional model is time-consuming with subpar performance and a poor user experience. Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE, aims to address the need for a centralized, software-defined security architecture when the apps and users are highly distributed. SASE combines the flexibility of SD-WAN with a full suite of virtual security services, all delivered from the cloud.

Please join VMware and Frost & Sullivan for this webinar to learn about:

• Market trends driving the business case for SASE
• The power of networking and security together
• How VMware delivers a cloud-native networking and security solution

We’re living in an era of fast-paced digital transformation that’s accelerating thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT) in the industrial sector. From Manufacturing, Distribution & Logistics, Transportation, and machinery, IoT systems are delivering new business insights and much more efficient ways of working. With estimates highlighting 50 billion devices being connected by 2030, the ability to manage them all is already proving challenging to network administrators. At the same time, security of both applications and infrastructure remains a strong concern.

Join Meriplex and VMware in this webcast to discuss how we can help you drive operational efficiency and leverage intelligent analytics for IoT as part of your overall network and security infrastructure while addressing challenges such as security, connectivity and scalability by using software-defined WAN (SD-WAN).

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VMware Edge Network Intelligence™ brings the AIOps advantage when end users access applications in the cloud. It proactively manages the client experience for all end user and IoT devices through wireless and wired LAN, SD-WAN, and SASE. Join this session to understand how enterprises benefit from VMware Edge Network Intelligence and gain deep insights for proactive remediation and automation.

While remote work is not new, we are entering a new era where many enterprises are realizing that their legacy WAN and VPN architectures are inadequate. SASE solutions that build and improve upon standalone SD-WAN and cloud-based SWG solutions should be at the top of the list for any enterprise seeking to address the needs of the new work from anywhere era.
We’ll discuss the key drivers behind the work from anywhere trend and why traditional wide area network (WAN) and virtual private network (VPN) approaches no longer work.

You will learn:
- Why legacy enterprise WAN and security architectures are inadequate for supporting the rapid growth of the highly distributed work force and ongoing adoption of software as a service (SaaS) applications.
- How the union of SD-WAN and cloud-based secure web gateways form the basis of the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions for providing network connectivity and enforcing security between users, devices, and applications.

Speakers:
- Shin Umeda, Vice President for SP Router and SD-WAN, Dell’Oro Group
- Mauricio Sanchez, Research Director for Network Security and SASE, Dell’Oro Group
- Abe Ankumah, Senior Director Product Marketing and Partnerships, VMWare
- Mike Frane, VP SD-WAN Product Management, Windstream


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As businesses embrace new digital business models and accelerate their adoption of cloud-based services, traditional network services are struggling to keep pace. The emergence of technologies such as SDN and NFV is creating a new generation of faster, more agile and intelligent networks that are fundamentally changing how businesses provision and experience connectivity.
 
Embracing network automation can help businesses as they build and manage increasingly complex and global IT environments by enabling them to orchestrate networks to meet their needs. Yet network automation already means different things to different people, and it is becoming harder for businesses to understand the short and long-term implications of intelligent networking.
 
In this BrightTALK panel, we’re bringing together networking experts, enterprises and technology providers to discuss the opportunities and challenges presented by intelligent networking. Join us to learn:
 
-          How your business can begin the move to intelligent networking
-          How network automation can play a role in improving access to the cloud and other current use cases.  
-          Why open APIs are an essential part of the move to intelligent networks
-          How industry standards are also helping to advance network automation
-          What truly autonomous and intelligent networks can mean for business in the future

VMware Edge Network Intelligence™ brings the AIOps advantage when end users access applications in the cloud. It proactively manages the client experience for all end user and IoT devices through wireless and wired LAN, SD-WAN, and SASE. Join this session to understand how enterprises benefit from VMware Edge Network Intelligence and gain deep insights for proactive remediation and automation.

Health system CIOs have had to rethink how to continue delivering care to those suffering from COVID-19 and the millions battling other serious illness and disease. Prior to the pandemic, care delivery already posed challenges to expanding, heterogeneous healthcare organizations. Points of care delivery are diverse. Different care specialties require different technology infrastructures. As the home itself becomes a point of continuous care delivery through active and passive remote monitoring technologies, a consistent patient experience and reliable, high-quality connectivity are critical.

In this forum, CIOs will discuss the specific challenges they’ve faced (like policy and care at the edge hurdles) and what they anticipate next steps to be. This webinar is a unique opportunity to learn firsthand as CIOs, policy experts, and technologists explore the evolving adoption of value-based care and enabling technologies like telehealth, and how their various elements come together.

Bonus: All registrants will receive a free white paper detailing the digital foundation needed in healthcare.

VMware Work from Anywhere (WFA) solutions rapidly enable a remote workforce with enterprise performance and security, consumer simplicity, and cloud-scale. With WFA solutions based on VMware’s industry-leading networking and security convergence platform, organizations can help employees working from anywhere to carry out business activities with onsite-like experience and productivity while maintaining security and control and lowering costs. You’ll also see how VMware IT deployed VMware SD-WAN to mitigate the issues of network and application performance for its own employees.

Enterprises continue to adopt the cloud and embrace a multicloud strategy. Multicloud brings benefits including agility, flexibility, performance and cost savings – but creates management complexities and operational challenges. Today’s enterprise WAN network is not suitable for connectivity to the cloud, let alone multiple clouds. Connecting workloads from multiple clouds through the data-center WAN edge creates bottlenecks. This causes deployment complexity, inconsistent network performance, and expensive connectivity. Enterprises need to consider a WAN transformation and adopt SD-WAN, to help facilitate multicloud deployments while simplifying WAN infrastructure and reducing connectivity costs.

Join us in this webinar to learn how the VMware SD-WAN solution facilitates a seamless network transformation providing a smooth multicloud onramp with optimized and secure connectivity, eliminating performance degradation and enabling the best user experience, all while making it cost-effective for enterprise organizations.

Tolly benchmarked the quality of service and remediation capabilities of VMware SD-WAN to improve the end user experience for VoIP and work from home (WFH) applications. They found that VMware SD-WAN can remediate packet loss and deliver a high-quality experience, even under adverse network conditions. The results showed that there’s an improvement of up to 45% in the quality of a VoIP call with a 2% packet loss. In addition, in a WFH environment, the results showed an improved download time by up to 71%.

In this roundtable discussion, listen and interact with a panel of industry leading experts from AT&T and VMware as they discuss simplifying the network transformation journey for healthcare through thoughtful planning and increased network intelligence.

Digitalization of data, expansion of traditional medical services to telemedicine, IoT and remote access to critical business applications are driving the need for network reliability and scale. These use cases are critical for end user success but can be burdensome to IT.

The panel will address these key concerns:
• How AT&T’s focus on healthcare benefits customers through network transformation
• Deploying SD-WAN to automate and scale through artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Building the right team for successful transformation

In the wake of the challenges of 2020 and changing customer behaviors, retailers are reimagining what technology can do meet these changes and turning their attention to taking their customer experience to the next level. They are striving to offer a simple and seamless digital experience — from browsing to researching, selecting, purchasing, and returning/exchanging. They have to make sure their sites are mobile-responsive, offer integrated services such as “buy online pick up in store” (BOPIS), and deliver a consistent, reliable digital experience across devices and channels. To keep thriving in this highly competitive industry, retailers are embracing cloud computing, improved efficiency, and simplified workflows, all with eye toward delivering an exceptional end-user experience.

The retail sector is in a prime position to modernize their existing network and security infrastructure in order to reap the benefits offered by the cloud. Retailers need an agile and efficient network that can enable increased employee productivity and at the same time deliver a superior customer experience.

Join VMware and Hughes in this webinar and learn how we can help you design, build and deploy an intelligent, highly secure and automated network. We will discuss how SD-WAN and cloud-delivered security paves the path to a comprehensive SASE architecture.

As enterprises worldwide pursue digital transformation initiatives, they increasingly embrace cloud-based architectures and services to meet their objectives. With employees and customers dispersed across geographic locations and different cloud providers, there is unrelenting pressure on enterprise networks to become more agile, flexible and provide a consistent quality of service to all users regardless of physical location.

To meet these evolving demands, Equinix and VMware are collaborating to offer VMware SD-WAN Edge as a virtual network function (VNF) on Equinix’s Network Edge. SD-WAN Edge Service allows companies to deploy in minutes to enhance application performance for remote and branch office users. Your IT team can establish a PoP anywhere in the world, and easily manage it from their location.

Attend this webinar to watch a live demo and to learn how you can modernize your network without any CAPEX investment and remove the delays and risks associated with procurement, shipping, racking and stacking of on-site gear.