This white paper explains:
- Application delivery over enterprise networks is changing: How the cloud promises simplified application manaement, but as enterprises progressively embrace SaaS, IaaS and PaaS, networks become more diverse, complex and central to the business.
- Cloud computing shifts complexity to the WAN and to the branch offices: The cloud is about delivering applications anytime, anywhere and on any device. This shifts the complexity of application delivery from central data centers to the enterprise network and to branch offices where users decide about traffic composition and loads.
- The evolution of VPNs to Cloud-Ready Networks: As enterprises progressively embrace the cloud and in order to guarantee the performance of their business critical applications, they need to have a careful look at the design of their WAN and at the technologies they use to manage their application traffic across it.
