SASE and SUN Datacom
MPLS, SD WAN and SASE are marketing terms, that have been butchered by marketing companies in recent years. All these media groups have made it absolutely confusing for customers. For example, some vendors are claiming that ZTNA is the latest technology, but ZTNA is now a few years old.
Cerulean Networks advises end users on the differences between wonder platforms but more importantly, what a specific end users USE CASE IS and which platform and then again which suppliers are a perfect fit for what a customer is trying to accomplish. Therefore, you as a customer need to speak and seek out our advisory services instead of going directly to a vendor/manufacture, it could be that you may not even need SD WAN or SASE at all. we do not know until we speak with you.
Demand for secure access service edge (SASE) has grown tremendously during the pandemic. As Adoption picks up, vendors are promising feature-rich and integrated SASE solutions. Customers have different needs when it comes to SASE, however, and it’s not always easy to understand what a SASE provider is offering.
Many SASE vendors don’t yet have the full stack of features, and some partner with other companies to fill the gaps.
The SASE vendor-selection process is complicated further by the fact that vendors are differentiating themselves by promising additional capabilities such as remote browser isolation, data loss prevention, AI and machine-learning integration to automate IT functions, self-healing for improved operational efficiency, and IoT security.
According to Gartner, instead of using multiple vendors to get cloud delivered SWG, CASB, ZTNA, and FWaaS, 30% of enterprises will use a single vendor by 2024, up from less than 5% in 2020.
Whether looking for single-stack or vendors with strengths in particular areas, there’s a lot of choice when it comes to SASE.
Dell’Oro Group listed 35 SASE vendors in its September report.Gartner lists 11 SASE vendors and nine honorable mentions in their SSE Magic Quadrant, and 15 in the WAN Edge Magic Quadrant, with three vendors appearing on both lists — Versa, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks. In June, Gartner released a report that listed eight full-stack SASE vendors. The five other companies are Cato Networks, Forcepoint, Open Systems, Fortinet, and Citrix.
The development of SASE goes back several years, CATO Networks, the vendor we highlighthere was one of the early SASE architectures and it is a true SASE.