Whitepaper: The CIO’s guide to WAN transformation

Employees need to be able to work from anywhere. And they need to do so securely. Legacy WANs and SD-WANs can’t keep up with hybrid work, SaaS usage, and cloud computing. Here’s how to transform your WAN for today’s distributed, hybrid-cloud world. The employee user experience is crucial to productivity and retention. But today, with apps and data hosted anywhere — the cloud, remote data centers, and on-premise — corporate networks are strained to the breaking point. The 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns were a forcing function for remote and hybrid work, and performance issues were highlighted when employees came back into the office after the pandemic and found their apps work a lot slower, compared to app usage on home networks.