Organizations across all vertical markets are turning to SD-WAN to simplify global networks, improve WAN performance, lower costs and streamline management. According to Quadrant,
the SD-WAN market is expected to continue growing at a compound annual
growth rate of 56.1 percent (2018-2023), and it’s on pace to exceed $12
billion. Over this stretch, Quadrant says, North America will provide
the highest business opportunities for SD-WAN vendors. Currently, North
America holds 83 percent of the global SD-WAN market with Asia Pacific
and EMEA also gaining market traction. The technology is widely appealing to enterprises that are looking to
address connectivity to on-premises and cloud applications. This is
fueling market growth. According to Gartner, there are now more than 60
vendors in the global WAN edge market, combining technologies like
SD-WAN, WAN optimization, edge security and branch office routing. Looking ahead over the next decade, Gartner predicts that WAN edge and
security will converge into a single market, which is being referred to
as Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). Gartner maintains that in order to continue to grow in this rapidly
evolving market, vendors should transform their delivery model and
enhance their product portfolio. SASE adoption, which will be delivered
as an XaaS offering, aims to make device-centric and traditional Cloud
Service Provider (CSP) offerings/business models obsolete.
There I was shooting the breeze with an old mate. The conversation turned to why Madge Networks which I wrote about here went titsup. My analysis is that Madge Networks had a solution and decided to go out and find a problem. They deferred to more incorrect strategic technology choices. The truth of the matter is that when something goes titsup, its not because of one reason only, but a myriad of them all contributing to the negative consequence. There are the immediate or visual ones, which are underpinned by intermediate ones and finally after digging right down, there are the root causes. There is never a singular root cause for anything but I'll present my opinion and encourage everyone else to chip in. All of them together are more likely the reason the company went titsup. As far as technology brainfarts go there is no better example than Kodak . They invented the digital camera that killed them. However, they were so focused on milking people in their leg
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