Does SD-WAN address all your major external networking challenges? I ask because Cato Networks just announced that they’ve raised $55 million in funding. That’s an incredible amount of money for any SD-WAN company to raise in this market. (The press release is here.)
When I spoke with Cato’s CEO, Shlomo Kramer, he attributed the raise in part to the fact that companies have networking needs beyond improving site-to-site connectivity. Predictable global application delivery, mobile access, connect to cloud datacenters and SaaS apps, and security — he argued that those capabilities are beyond what’s delivered by SD-WAN. Cato, he said, provides SD-WAN and much more.
I’m not going to be a Cato mouthpiece, their site will tell you everything they claim to offer, what I’d like to know is do you agree with Kramer? What major external networking problems today do you have that are beyond the scope of SD-WAN? By “external networking” I’m thinking mobile access, Internet security, predictable global application delivery (often impossible across the Internet), really anything that reaches outside of the office.
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