Ahead of the Cloud Coevolve

Welcome to a new season of content from Coevolve's Ahead of the Cloud podcast!

In this episode, Coevolve CTO Ciaran Roche discusses the challenges of building, delivering and managing global networks with James Halberstadt, MD EMEA for Coevolve.

Global enterprises face many unique and complex challenges. In this episode we cover:


What do we really mean by global enterprises, and why is this sometimes misunderstood?
The importance of building the optimum underlay
Cloud-based apps, and the complexity of multi-cloud
Addressing the user experience challenge
Securing complex global networks

We hope you enjoy listening to this episode! If you have any questions, or would like to talk to our team, visit us at coevolve.com or reach out to us via our social media channels.

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Most enterprises that we talk to are dealing with concurrent challenges including cloud migration, adapting to a hybrid workforce, converging network / security requirements and supporting new operating models.

There are lots of vendor-specific perspectives there that point straight to a specific product as a way of addressing a particular challenge, but this often ignores the specifics of the business. We want to leverage our global perspective and experience across multiple vendors and industry verticals to provide more tailored advice and recommendations to these enterprises. We are launching our NextGen Series to provide enterprises with a framework that can enable their digital transformation initiatives.

Some of the main themes we’re focusing on as part of this thought leadership series include:


The future of managed services
The future telco-independent WAN and backbone
Enabling Industry 4.0 initiatives
Assessing the digital outlook for the global enterprise

In this episode, Coevolve CTO Ciaran Roche discusses these themes with CEO Tim Sullivan, providing an introduction to the thought leadership Series and addressing the topics that many of our enterprise clients have raised.

Many of Coevolve's clients have replaced traditional telco backbones with a modern, software-defined alternative. In this episode, Ciaran Roche is joined by Kevin Skahill, Senior Director of Product Management at Equinix to discuss this model. Why should enterprises consider adopting a software-defined middle mile as an alternative to traditional approaches?

We've covered a lot of technical details in previous episodes. In this episode we decided to take more of a geographical focus. Host Ciaran Roche is joined by James Halberstadt, Coevolve's Managing Director for the EMEA region, who joined the team in December 2021.

Ciaran and James discuss the practicalities of delivering next-generation networking services in the EMEA region, and how Coevolve's approach can be a great fit for enterprises looking for an alternative to the traditional telco model.

Other relevant resources:


Coevolve SASE services: https://www.coevolve.com/sase-solutions-for-the-hybrid-workforce/
Recent Coevolve webinar on delivering SASE: https://my.demio.com/ref/uy9Hj4P72fGMyef2

Secure Access Service Edge, or SASE has become one of the most-discussed topics in enterprise networking. But how much of this is marketing hype, and what represents real enterprise value? We invited Eyal Webber-Zvik, VP of Product Marketing at Cato Networks to join us for an in-depth discussion on all things SASE.

Cato Networks is one of Coevolve's strategic partners, and has a global "pure-play" SASE offering. 

In this episode, Ciaran and Eyal cover a range of topics related to SASE, including:


What is SASE? Is there a single definition that everyone can agree on?
Why is there so much attention (and hype) in the industry right now around this topic? How much of it is real and actually valuable to the enterprise? 
Has COVID accelerated the adoption of SASE? How does SASE deliver a better outcome for hybrid working?
What elements of the traditional network and security stack does SASE displace? 
Another phrase that’s getting a lot of attention these days is Zero Trust. Where does SASE fit into a Zero Trust strategy?
Are enterprises always ready for this level of convergence?
Looking forward – what other risks can SASE help mitigate – endpoint protection, etc.

We hope you enjoy listening to this episode. If you have any questions, please reach out to Ciaran directly at @CRoche on Twitter, or via the Coevolve website.

Welcome to Ahead of the Cloud, Coevolve's Podcast on SD-Wan, SASE, multi-cloud networking, and other next generation networking technologies.

Today, our host Ciaran Roche is joined by Coevolve's co-founder and CEO, Tim Sullivan. Both are going to be talking about something that likely is the most frequently discussed subject when we speak with customers and prospects recently: this whole topic around "Work from Anywhere!" and Hybrid Work, specifically what that's going to do to the enterprise network.

In March of last year, we saw enterprises almost overnight having to reinvent how their networks are going to work. They had to get connectivity up very quickly to support remote workers and get them productive within typically hours or days at best.

But what we're starting to see now is that we're past all of that, and we're now at a scenario where enterprises are looking at something more complex: they're looking at more of a permanent "work from anywhere" model.

They're trying to figure out how to deal with this scenario where they're going to have some users in an office all the time, some never in an office, some that are in an office two or three days a week, and delivering a consistent user experience across that user base.

In this episode, we discuss how an enterprise might be able to build a sustainable model for their network to support that type of pattern.

About us:

Our mission, our reason for being, is to provide “Agile Networks for Global Applications”. Specifically, this means helping enterprises and channel partners adopt the best next-generation network technologies to support a changing application environment. We are a team of SD-WAN experts, but also help in many other areas.

How do we do this?

We are a purpose-built company specifically formed to embrace disruptive technologies and practices and apply them to the global network agenda. Our Integrated SD-WAN Solutions provide enterprises with an end to end solution that includes ISP Lifecycle Management, SD-WAN, cloud-based security and advanced monitoring. We provide Professional Services for SD-WAN architecture and implementation. For custom scopes, our Strategic Consulting team can help with any network transformation project. Coevolve's mission is to deliver measurable improvement in the technical, operational and commercial performance of wide-area networks.

Connect with us, Ciaran and Tim through social media:

Twitter:


https://twitter.com/timsullo
https://twitter.com/coevolvetech

LinkedIn:


https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciaranroche
https://au.linkedin.com/in/tim-sullivan-coevolve

Visit us in our website:


https://www.coevolve.com/