Analyst house Gartner, Inc. recently released the inaugural version of its Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure. WAN edge functionality is currently shifting from dedicated routing, security, and WAN optimization appliances to feature-rich SD-WAN.
Gartner defines WAN edge infrastructure as “WAN edge products that provide network connectivity from distributed enterprise locations to access resources in private and public data centers, as well as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). It is typically procured by senior networking leaders in the infrastructure and operations (I&O) organization and increasingly senior security leaders. This market is evolving from traditional branch routers — often called “customer edge routers” in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) implementations — used to connect branch locations to the data center to a more decentralized architecture with cloud workloads. It is undergoing dramatic change, driven by the needs of digital business transformation and the demands of line of business (LOB) managers.”
In this Magic Quadrant, computer science major jobs evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 17 providers that it considers most significant in the marketplace and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their ability to execute and their completeness of vision. The 17 vendors Gartner analyzed in this report are Barracuda, Cisco, Citrix, Cradlepoint, FatPipe Networks Fortinet, HPE (Aruba), Huawei, Juniper Networks, Nuage Networks, Palo Alto Networks (CloudGenix), Peplink, Riverbed, Silver Peak, Teldat, Versa Networks, and VMWare. The graph is divided into four quadrants: niche players, challengers, visionaries, and leaders.
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