Lower your Total Cost of Ownership

Versa Unified SASE isn’t just an architectural upgrade. It reduces operational complexity, improves security posture, and reduces the cost of ownership.

Why it matters

Versa Unified SASE can reduce your cost of ownership by up to 50%.

These cost savings come from product convergence, simpler operations, lower transport costs, and fewer integrations. Versa Unified SASE also delivers added benefits like stronger security, easier audits, and faster threat detection—all of which further reduce total cost of ownership.

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Product cost savings

You're probably paying for multiple tools, such as SD-WAN, firewalls, CASB, and DLP, from different vendors. Versa Unified SASE brings them together on one platform. The result: stronger security, simpler operations, and up to 25% lower total cost of ownership.

Key sources of cost savings:

  • Lower CapEx and OpEx spend through reduced licensing, support, and maintenance costs.
  • Fewer renewals and HW refreshes.
  • Fewer hours needed to manage vendors and their contracts.

Operational cost savings

Versa Unified SASE reduces operational overhead by unifying networking and security in a cloud-based platform. It simplifies policy management, eliminates the need for separate ops teams, and reduces lifecycle tasks such as patching and hardware refreshes. The result: up to 50% less effort for daily operations.

Key sources of cost savings:

  • Centralized policy engine simplifies and unifies policy management, eliminating the need to reconcile rules across multiple systems.
  • Fewer devices mean less time spent on patching, refreshing hardware, and on-site installs.
  • Converged platform consolidates roles, removing the need for separate operations teams and product-specific training.

Transport cost savings

Versa SD-WAN, part of our Unified SASE platform, cuts transport costs by reducing or eliminating reliance on costly MPLS. It enables the use of more affordable broadband and 5G, while intelligent traffic steering and encrypted tunnels deliver near-MPLS performance. Most customers can save up to 40%.

Key sources of cost savings:

  • Replace MPLS with broadband or 5G to cut cost per Mbps without sacrificing performance.
  • App-aware routing improves bandwidth use and avoids overprovisioning.
  • Cloud-based optimization boosts throughput by cutting packet loss and latency.
  • Segmentation and failover reduce the need for redundant circuits.

Integration cost savings

Versa Unified SASE replaces multiple point products with one cloud-native platform. This removes the need for custom integrations between point products. Analysts estimate up to 50% savings on integration costs.

Key sources of cost savings:

  • Eliminates the need to integrate separate tools like firewalls, CASB, and SWG.
  • Skips site-specific configuration and local integration work.
  • Integrates once with identity and monitoring tools, simplifying setup.
  • Fewer systems mean fewer APIs to build, test, and maintain.

Energy cost savings

Versa Unified SASE lowers energy costs by shifting network and security functions to the cloud, reducing the need for hardware in branches and data centers. This cuts energy use and related operating expenses up to an estimated 30%.

Key sources of cost savings:

  • Convergence cuts power-hungry hardware in branches and data centers.
  • Less heat generation means lower cooling needs.
  • Cloud-delivered security replaces energy-intensive appliances at branches, campuses, and data centers.

Additional Benefits

Enhanced Security

Versa Unified SASE helps prevent breaches and improves your security posture, potentially lowering cyber insurance costs. It also shortens incident dwell time and helps maintain business continuity.

Simplified
audits

Versa Unified SASE centralizes policy management and logging, allowing you to apply consistent controls, reduce preparation time, and pass audits. You get cleaner audit trails and faster, less frequent audits.

Better user experience

By removing VPN bottlenecks and backhaul, Versa Unified SASE delivers better application performance, seamless access, and always-on security—boosting productivity and user experience.

Scalability and agility

Versa Unified SASE’s cloud-native model scales instantly, supports fast onboarding, and maintains consistent policies as users, sites, and apps grow—unlike legacy infrastructure.

Faster threat detection

Versa Unified SASE inspects traffic in real time, uses AI/ML for predictive threat detection, and enforces policies at the edge for faster threat detection and quicker response to incidents.