Posts tagged ‘Cloud Security’
Building Secure, AI-Optimized Data Centers: A Blueprint for CIOs and Network Architects
Artificial Intelligence is pushing enterprise data centers to their limits and most aren’t ready. As organizations deploy GPU-packed clusters and scale out AI inference, traditional architectures struggle to deliver the performance, scalability, and uncompromising security that modern AI demands. Regulated industry-based Enterprises or those with critical intellectual property or sensitive information are not willing to put their sensitive data on third-party clouds or AI applications hosted elsewhere.
Why SD-WAN Is Becoming Essential for AI Access in the Enterprise
AI applications are no longer tools used by a few teams for productivity or collaboration. They are rapidly becoming tools that help build core IT systems across every industry. From generative AI to NLP powered copilots to predictive analytics, enterprises are embedding AI into everyday operations, customer engagement and decision-making.
AI-Optimized Data Centers: The Non-Negotiable Blueprint for What’s Next
AI is everywhere—here’s the blueprint to outgrow legacy data centers: GPU-dense compute, ultra-low-latency fabrics, NVMe/parallel storage, direct cloud interconnects—knit together by Versa for true edge-to-cloud assurance.
Secure client access policies with Versa MCP configuration tool
Automate SAC policy creation, auditing, and optimization with MCP configuration tool and LLM-powered secure access policy automation. Learn how.
2025 Verizon DBIR Inside: Cybersecurity Trends from 12,000+ Data Breaches
Explore the 2025 Verizon DBIR with insights from 12,000+ breaches, highlighting ransomware trends, third-party risks, and BYOD vulnerabilities.
Sovereign SASE – What’s It All About?
Versa announced last week the general availability of Versa Sovereign SASE – it’s the culmination of work done with early adopters over the past two years, including already-up-and-running deployments by organizations in the defense, financial services, maritime, energy, and retail industries. This also includes several service providers who’ve announced their own SASE offerings riding on a Versa Sovereign SASE implementation – like T-Mobile SASE, Tata Communications Hosted SASE, Lumen SASE, and Crown Castle SASE.
Unlock Effortless Security with Versa’s Cloud Firewall for AWS
Today, Versa announced the availability of our Cloud Firewall for AWS. Our AAA-rated NGFW is now available to everyone with a self-service, pay-as-you-go subscription model. Read on to see feature details and how to get enterprise-grade security for your AWS cloud environments.
Versa Achieves Exceptional Results in CyberRatings.org SSE Threat Protection and ZTNA Tests
In the crowded landscape of cloud-delivered Security Service Edge (SSE), relying on vendor claims of performance and security can often lead to disappointment. Increasingly, enterprises are seeking actual test results to validate the solutions they are considering.
Versa Enhances Microsoft Azure vWAN Integration
Versa Networks, in partnership with Microsoft Azure, has released an enhancement to the Versa Operating System (VOS) Network Virtual Appliance (NVA) deployed in Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN (vWAN). The changes to the existing offering are as follows: VOS is Versa’s multi-tenant, multi-service operating system and the integration extends the power of SASE, SSE, SD-WAN, and software-defined routing into the Microsoft Azure cloud. The VOS NVA, offered through the Azure Marketplace, is the same cloud-native Versa software deployed by over tens of thousands of enterprises worldwide. Using Versa, enterprises benefit from rich functionality to securely connect users to the applications on Microsoft…
Unlocking the Power of SD-WAN and Hyperscalers‘ Backbone Highways
In today’s digital era, businesses require seamless connectivity and optimal application performance across their globally dispersed sites to stay productive. Combining Versa Networks Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) with Hyperscalers‘ “private highways” is an innovative approach to achieve this goal.
Industry Insights
SASE-Delivered Cyber-Security for Small-Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
January 14, 2021
SMEs are the most cost-conscious of organizations; there’s no money for large IT teams, nor for stacks of single-purpose boxes per location: it adds up quickly with more locations. Direct Internet Access (DIA) has been a life-saver (read: cost-saver). Employees using their own tablets, smartphones, and laptops has phenomenally brought down user device costs and headaches—employees even upgrade and refresh their devices themselves! Cloud applications are another absolution: no more servers, OS upgrades, boxes, more boxes, slow performance—with SaaS you pay-as-you-go and instantly scale up/down.
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Strategies for Navigating a Successful Cloud Migration
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
October 26, 2020
A third (33%) of all organizations have failed to successfully implement their cloud strategies in 2019. Despite best efforts post-migration, network performance, security, and management problems continue to shoot up. As failed cloud migrations glaringly highlight the need to reinvent traditional WAN networks, organizations are increasingly turning to Secure SD-WAN for the help they need to successfully move to the cloud. Who doesn’t want to move to the cloud today? It’s scalable, flexible, and cost-efficient—everything that traditional data centers are not. Besides, users have grown increasingly mobile, making the “anytime, anywhere, and any-device” access the new normal for business continuity….
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Edge Networks Provide the Glue for the Business and its Branches
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
July 23, 2020
A key component of classic go-to-market strategies is to evaluate the requirements to compete in modern business by how we align our pricing models. We conduct competitive analysis to define product features and functions and build in unique differentiation to one-up our rivals. To support our products, we hire and train staff to ensure customer service and satisfaction ratings are the best in the industry. This is the digital age, where everyone, on some level, lives and works in a fully virtualized world. Unless we pay cash (remember cash), we can’t buy anything without a secure network. For contemporary times,…
Product & Engineering
Secure SD-WAN Architecture: Genuine Multi-Tenancy
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
July 6, 2020
Multi-tenancy for an enterprise? It’s a service provider thing! No, not really, in the e-commerce age you need it more than ever. There are myriad reasons to secure your enterprise network with a genuine multi-tenancy architecture—it’s critical to plug the security deficits of the also-ran legacy tenancy architectures. Listen to this webinar to hear Neil Danilowicz, Principal Architect, and myself, discuss the essentials of a genuine multi-tenancy architecture: the complete isolation of the control, data and management planes. If any of these planes bleeds across—in a shared device; in shared access to any network resource—it opens a security vulnerability. Enterprises…
Product & Engineering
Versa SD-WAN/SD-Security Solutions Enable Dynamic AWS VPC Ingress Routing
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
December 3, 2019
Addressing the optimization and security of branch access to cloud-hosted mission-critical applications and workloads, in a dynamic, simplified and automated manner, is essential for contemporary business operations. Secure SD-WAN services enable enterprises to create an enterprise-wide cloud-network fabric that accelerates modern day application consumption demands and supports enterprise digital agility, speed and security, all while ensuring and improving end-user experience for productivity, collaboration and business services. Versa Branch (Versa VOS™ (formerly FlexVNF)) and Headend (Director, Analytics, Controller [Versa VOS™ (formerly FlexVNF)]) are supported on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. The process of instantiating the Headend topology can be automated using a Cloud Formation template…
Customers & Partners
Multi-Cloud SD-WAN: Next-Generation Network for Digital Retail Transformation
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
March 19, 2019
Multi-cloud is the next phase of the hybrid cloud. It offers a redundancy model that relies on multiple cloud providers to host applications in a single heterogeneous architecture. Today’s organizations need resilient architectures that can withstand failure of a single cloud. Cloud services require workload continuity with redundancy between clouds or the need to enhance the hybrid cloud experience. For example, even though organizations still run a vase majority of on-premise applications but use S3 storage in Amazon Web Services (AWS). Therefore, a single cloud is insufficient for resilience, regional availability, performance and data sovereignty. To facilitate cloud multi-tasking, IaaS…
Customers & Partners
Versa and APN Partners Work Together to Simplify, Optimize and Secure Application Migration to Amazon Web Services
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
November 26, 2018
Versa Networks, innovator of the Secure Cloud IP software platform, is changing the game once again byteamingup with APN networking partners to provide Secure Software-Defined WAN(SD-WAN) solutions tailored for Amazon Web Services. This solutionoffering will further secure and optimize the migration of enterprise on-premises workloads and applications to AWS. Versa has alignedwith service provider and system integration partners that haveachieved AWS Networking Competency status and who are anAWS Partner Network (APN) Partner supporting AWS Direct Connect.Versa APN operator alliances include Verizon, Comcast, Centurylinkand Zayo, with Zayoinitiating the first package offered in the AWS Solution Space: https://aws.amazon.com/solutionspace/solutions/versa-zayo-integrated-network-solution-on-aws/ “SD-WAN is another way we’re…
Customers & Partners
Capital One Leverages Versa’s Secure Cloud Software for Retail WAN Transformation
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
November 13, 2018
Capital One offers financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients. The company needed to modernize their branch and infrastructure for retail banking operations. They wanted to ensure their branch-to-branch and internal branch connectivity, including guest WiFi services, were reliable and secure. Guest WiFi availability had evolved from simply allowing customers to browse the web and social media, to becoming a business-critical service that needed to be secure, reliable and always available. The bank required a complete digital transformation solution offering technology that would reflect how their customers interact with bank services. Branch offices and cafes are…
Industry Insights
SD-WAN Extensibility for the Multi-Cloud Transition
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
September 5, 2018
The cloud imperative stretches the network perimeter from a branch office or remote site location to a distributed-application model wherein SaaS acceleration is key. As traffic moves to and from branch locations and multiple clouds over the Internet, SD-WAN and layered security are required. Just as the cloud is more than hosting apps and infrastructure, SD-WAN is more than circuit aggregation and dynamic path selection. Organizations need more than reliability and agility; those are table-stakes outcomes. A modern SD-WAN implementation requires a broad set of functions when connecting to multiple clouds like routing, NAT, DOS, DHCP server and relay, stateful…
Industry Insights
SD-WAN to Cloud Transition and Autonomous Vehicles
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
July 31, 2018
According to 451 Research, there are several key factors behind the recent emergence of autonomous vehicles (AVs): a combination of increasing computing capabilities (Moore’s law), accessibility of data, meaningful and actionable insights through analytics of this data, and the advent of AI, machine learning and artificial neural networks. Expertise and technology in these fields have historically been outside the core competencies of traditional automotive players (OEMs, suppliers). This vacuum has attracted the likes of new and old IT hardware and software providers to find a role in the future connected car and AV. 451 says that the largest impending innovators will come from…
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