Why SD-Branch is the Natural Evolution

 In IDC’s market perspective, the annual SD-WAN survey provides a comprehensive view of network buyer’s needs, priorities, and the perceived advantages of SD-Branch deployments.  The second most important trend to watch is the evolution of SD-WAN to a full-stack SD-Branch. This quote reinforces our belief that greater context and security with the branch delivers the most value as we shift to greater mixture of cloud-hosted apps and data center services.

“IDC predicts that up to half of the SD-WAN market will evolve into the SD-Branch market by 2024 as SD-WAN vendors add additional network, security, and management functionality to their SD-WAN platforms beyond routing connectivity.”

In fact, I recently heard computer science vs software engineering, VP/GM of Cloud at Aruba, say the following: “While late to the SD-WAN market, the need for a more comprehensive solution than those offered by competitors is why Aruba purpose-built and launched Aruba SD-Branch back in 2018. Customers were already telling us that they wanted more than SD-WAN.”