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
Assessing the Impact of AI to Cloud Networking
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
July 18, 2018
Ubiquitous cloud access has become more business-critical than ever and monitoring, managing and trouble-shooting have increased in complexity. SD-WAN allows organizations to seamlessly bring together diverse circuits like MPLS, DIA Internet, broadband Internet, WiFi, satellite and any other network transport with an IP address. We can already see some of the ways in which AI can optimize WANs to improve business outcomes. For example, ubiquitous networking has become a critical layer in the network landscape to ensure reliable, cost-effective and highly scalable connectivity. The challenge is in managing the ubiquitous WAN’s real-time decision making, based on network conditions, locations and…
Industry Insights
3 Strategic Imperatives for Winning the Secure Cloud Transition
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
July 6, 2018
Networking and security IT infrastructures have evolved to a level of complexity unmanageable by operators and enterprises using a conventional approach. The ongoing reliance upon legacy network hardware and disjointed WAN architectures inhibit the operational agility required by global organizations looking to digitize business services with secure, multi-cloud connectivity. The intersection of network reliability and application performance requires a more flexible, versatile network architecture with security and cloud integration at the forefront; thus, optimal WAN-path selection alone is no longer good enough in a multi-threaded threat environment. Large-scale enterprises with far-flung remote locations and highly distributed data centers are facing…
Industry Insights
Optimize the Enterprise Network for Multi-Cloud- Webinar Highlights
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
March 2, 2018
Many still consider SD-WAN as an emerging technology in the enterprise IT space. However, SD-WAN has started to gain traction among IT leaders. Organizations world-wide that are gearing up or are mid-way through a ‘digital transformation’ drive need to take a more software-defined approach to their infrastructure. IT teams in these organizations are increasingly relying on automation to help them with the routine tasks to make IT more efficient. Analyst firm IDC believes that SD-WAN market will reach USD 8 billion by 2020, a CAGR of 70% per year growth over the next four years. While some believe that the…
Industry Insights
SD-WAN: Making Sense of the Cloud Cuckoo Land
By Rahul Vaidya
Director, Product Management
February 5, 2018
You finished moving your applications to the cloud. The project went live, and you hoped that soon you would be reaping immense benefits from your cloud investment. You wait. And wait some more. And then reality strikes. Mainstream network technologies that build up most enterprise networks of today were not built to handle the dynamic, anytime anywhere accessibility of workloads in a cloud environment. To truly reap the benefits of a cloud strategy, you need to compliment it with a network that is intelligent, cloud-native, secure and still cost-effective. SD-WAN is your answer. Enter the Cloud Transformation Era Enterprises are…
Product & Engineering
SD-WAN – A Public Cloud Networking Renaissance?
By The Versa Team
Universal SASE leaders
December 15, 2017
An Excuse for a Blog Recently, Versa Networks participated in the AWS integration testing performed by the ESG Group that culminated in their recently published buyer’s guide for SD-WAN solutions in AWS. The timing of this test was perfect as it coincides with increased customer interest in both hybrid and multi-cloud solutions. The timing was perfect for another reason: Versa has been adding quite a bit of innovation around native integration with various public cloud environments, but these tend to make sense to folks employed by “born-in-the-cloud” employers, where Python and JSON, not BGP and OSPF are the main job…
Company Updates
Versa Software-Defined Security (SD-Security) Gains Momentum; Takes Home TMC’s Cloud Computing Security Excellence Award
By Sunil Ravi
Chief Security Architect, Versa Networks
October 26, 2016
In February, Versa announced major feature and performance enhancements to the software-defined security (SD-Security) used in its branch security offering. The enhanced SD-Security enables service providers and large enterprise IT teams to deliver a wide range of layered security services for branch offices, including advanced functions such as domain name system (DNS) security and secure web gateways (SWG), coupled with full multi-tenancy. Analysts Understand the Need for SD-Security According to industry analysts, branch offices are increasingly becoming a targeted point of entry into corporate networks, with attack volume growing more than 500 percent over the last three years. Gartner’s 2012…
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