Versa Networks, the
recognised secure access service edge (SASE) leader, is no stranger to
recognition for its technology by Gartner. “After being chosen as a Leader in
the 2020 Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure, then receiving the highest product score for
the Large Global WAN Use Case’s Magic Quadrant for its Versa Networks (VOS) in
2021, Versa has again been acknowledged by Gartner. This is a great accolade
and one that confirms our decision to align ourselves with leading suppliers of
technology that benefits our customer base,” says Andre Kannemeyer, CTO at
Duxbury Networking, local distributors of Versa technology.
Gartner,
the leading provider of
research and analysis on the global information technology industry, has
recognised Versa as a Leader in the 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SD-WAN1 report. This marks the third consecutive
year in which Versa has been recognised as a Leader in this category, as the
report was previously titled the Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure2 where Versa was positioned as a Leader the previous
two years.
According to Gartner, “I&O leaders
responsible for networking are selecting products to connect branches and
remote workers to applications and other enterprise locations. They should
select software-defined WAN and, increasingly, secure access service edge to
connect enterprise sites to cloud workloads securely...By 2025, 50% of new
software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) purchases will be part of a single vendor secure
access service edge (SASE) offering, which is a major increase from 10% in
2022.”1
The 2022 Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN report
evaluated 14 different vendors on several critical criteria and positioned
Versa in the Leaders Quadrant. Versa was recognised for its Ability to Execute
and Completeness of Vision in the Gartner Magic Quadrant.
“We believe Versa Networks’ placement in the Gartner Leaders Quadrant validates our strategy and strong execution and continued traction,” says Kelly Ahuja, CEO with Versa Networks. “More than 10 years ago, our founders Apurva and Kumar Mehta made the strategic decision to integrate security and networking.
“Today, we offer the broadest and most
capable solution in this market for both networking and security, and we have
the most complete and comprehensive product strategy to align with current and
future customer requirements. We believe that our AIOps capabilities like
Verbo, a natural language processing (NLP) based chatbot, and Versa Advanced
Network Insights (VANI), an AI/ML-based network and security anomaly detection
and prediction solution, deliver self-management/self-healing secure network
and automate operations.”
Gartner also stated: “There is a trend to
more autonomous and self-driving networks in which AI/ML technologies can be
leveraged to make networking decisions without or with limited human
intervention. The objective is to make networking easier for configuration and
deployment with a focus more on Day 2 operations for end users, reduce
operating expenditures (opex), increase speed/agility and improve uptime/performance…Select
SD-WAN vendors that can improve Day 2 operations with network automation and AI
networking capabilities. As differentiation between features/capabilities
reduces, organisations should look at how to optimise supporting the network to
improve uptime, performance and efficiency.”1
According to Gartner, “We expect to see
more single-vendor, integrated SASE solutions incorporating the SSE and SD-WAN
branch components. This will simplify sourcing and offer a tighter technical
integration, ultimately offering a better user experience…Implement a SASE
architecture for branch office and remote worker secure connectivity to cloud
workloads.” 1
Versa’s unified SASE (of which Versa
SD-WAN is one of the offerings) delivers best-of-breed functions that tightly
integrate and deliver services via the cloud, on-premises, or as a blended
combination of both via VOS™ with a Single-Pass Parallel Processing
architecture and managed through a single pane of glass. Versa delivers SASE
services such as Secure SD-WAN, Next-Generation Firewall, Next-Generation
Firewall as a Service, Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Zero Trust Network Access
(ZTNA), Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Remote
Browser Isolation (RBI), and User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA). Versa’s
unified SASE goes above and beyond management console automation integration,
by providing the ability to integrate networks, points of presence, policy
definitions, application definitions, agent logic, and data lakes.
Note 1
– Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for SD-WAN,” by Jonathan Forest, Naresh Singh,
Andrew Lerner, Karen Brown on 12 September 2022.
Note 2
– Gartner, Inc. “Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure,” by Jonathan
Forest, Naresh Singh, Andrew Lerner, Evan Zeng, on 20 September 2021.