VMware launches new VeloCloud SASE to help tie together all your edge infrastructure

Date:
Mon, 26 Feb 2024 07:00:03 +0000

Description:
MWC 2024: Secured by Symantec, VMware turns to classic VeloCloud brand for
new SASE offering.

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VMware is harking back to the past for the launch of its new SASE offering at Mobile World Congress 2024 .

The company has unveiled VMware VeloCloud SASE, a single-vendor SASE solution bringing together VeloCloud SD-WAN, and Symantec SSE.

VMware acquired VeloCloud back in 2017, and originally phased out the company's branding some years later, but has now brought it back as it launches a new SASE product. VeloCloud SASE return

Revealing the news in a pre-brief ahead of MWC 2024, Abe Ankumah, Broadcoms Head of SD-WAN, Software-Defined Edge Division, noted that the launch would help allow customers to modernize their underlying infrastructure whilst also monetizing new services.

He added that VMware's approach to the software-designed edge has to focus on enabling a right-size infrastructure (in terms of shrinking the tech stack), zero-touch orchestration (as edge locations are increasingly distributed, and not always constantly online), and network programmability (looking at a need to be agile and flexible where needed).

Ankumah added that the motivation behind re-introducing the VeloCloud brand came because a lot of its customers and partners still refer to VMware existing offerings as VeloCloud, despite the brand being previously hidden away.

"The customer is always right - so we're going to reflect that, and bring
back the brand," he laughed.

"The number of new use cases we're able to open up...bears the full-strength of everything we're doing in the software-defined edge," he added. More from TechRadar Pro We've rounded up the best endpoint security solutions around today Secure service edge strengths drive SASE deployments Demystifying what SASE really means



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