RESEARCH THERAPY
Palo Alto Networks commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact ( TEI ) study to better understand the benefits , costs , and risks associated with Palo Alto Networks Prisma SASE . This abstract will focus on Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN and its value to organisations .
To explore this topic , Forrester interviewed a senior director for the network team at a hospitality organisation that has Prisma SD- WAN deployed at more than 1,000 sites .
Traditional WAN networks designed around hub-and-spoke architecture rely heavily on a number of physical data centres to be the focal points of data for an organisation . Often , this means uneven bandwidth demand spikes can put significant stress on network capacity and cause performance issues . Business interruptions often happen because links and traffic between remotes sites take some time to restore connections .
Forrester research from 2021 found that 75 % of global decision-makers said their organisation has implemented , is implementing , or plans to implement hybrid WAN . Thus , SD-WAN becomes the inevitable next step for organisations to support better application control , improve customer experience and increase networking agility .
Prisma SD-WAN is a fully cloud-native platform that can be deployed at branch and distributed sites . Once deployed , Prisma SD- WAN creates an end-to- end secure network fabric that is overlayed on the access points .
INVESTMENT DRIVERS
The interviewee said their organisation adopted Prisma SD-WAN to reduce the complexity of managing the different tools in its environment . This complexity resulted in challenges such as :
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• Inability for the security environment to scale with the business . As organisations grow , the complexity around different areas they need to secure also increases . At a certain point , companies will cross a threshold where their network becomes too distributed for them to manage effectively . This is especially true for organisations with remote and hybrid workers or workers distributed among many sites and branches . The senior director at the hospitality organisation noted : “ Our distributed management model was our biggest pain point . Our organisation has grown so much . Having these individually managed routers has become a nightmare to manage . This is especially true when wanting to make changes to policy .” �
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PALO ALTO NETWORKS PRISMA SD-WAN DELIVERS EXCEPTIONAL USER EXPERIENCE , HOLISTIC NETWORK SECURITY AND IT OPERATIONS AUTOMATION
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