Multi-cloud continues to gather momentum as leading suppliers announce products and services designed to help IT departments provision, manage and secure the many different cloud services they lease from different providers simultaneously.

These announcements mark two standout trends: firstly, the continuing shift away from product based hardware or software license fees into a service-orientated model that offers both more flexibility and less risk of overpaying for underused infrastructure for the buyer; and secondly the establishment of an all-important recurring revenue streams for the supplier.

One of the most biggest benefits of the software defined wide area network (SD-WAN) is the variation of deployment options it provides to customers, who can choose either a do it yourself approach or a managed services proposition from a third party network provider.  it also offers Service Providers another value add to their customers and important annuity business in an increasingly competitive market.

In today’s world of dynamic corporate networks and ever-developing security threats, traditional network security can be imagined as an ancient castle. In this modern connected world, those ancient structures are crumbling.