Talari ‘Cloud Connect’ Leapfrogs SD-WAN Competition, Eliminates Enterprise Hassle of Standing up Cloud-Based Infrastructure
September 18 2018 - 9:16AM
Business Wire
Leading Unified Communications and Cloud
Service Partners Support New Multi-Tenant Talari Platform
Talari Networks today announced its new ‘Cloud Connect’ solution
for today’s hybrid multi-cloud enterprise networks. Talari’s
multi-tenant Cloud Connect platform ensures businesses maintain
MPLS-class reliability and Quality of Experience (QoE) when
accessing multiple SaaS and public cloud services. Mirroring the
reliability benefits of Talari’s failsafe SD-WAN site-to-site
connectivity, Cloud Connect helps enterprises avoid the time and
cost burden around standing up and managing cloud infrastructure.
This cloud-first approach helps enterprises realize cost savings
and independence from proprietary carrier lock-in.
Cloud Connect prevents carrier service lock-in with reliable and
predictable multilink, multi-path access to SaaS and cloud-based
services. Talari’s solution enables cost-effective and efficient
high QoE connectivity to Software as a Service (SaaS), Unified
Communications as a Service (UCaaS), cloud service gateways, and
managed Network as a Service (NaaS) offerings through a new
high-availability connection called a Cloud Conduit. Underlying the
immediate commercial appeal of the Talari Cloud Connect solution,
Talari is announcing the support of several leading UCaaS, NaaS and
Cloud Service providers (CSPs). Technology partners including
RingCentral, Evolve IP, Pure IP, Meta Networks and Mode are the
first to offer Cloud Connect support. Value added reseller partners
endorsing Cloud Connect include Avant, Bridgepoint and Teneo.
“Prior to working with RingCentral and Talari, our firm’s cloud
services were dependent on separate and expensive dedicated
circuits for messaging, voice, video, meetings and conferencing,”
said Jason Kasch, CIO at Structural Group. “The addition of
Talari’s new Cloud Connect solution within RingCentral’s Unified
Communication offering helps boost service reliability while
simplifying cloud management and network troubleshooting.”
Practical Cloud Connect Enterprise Use Cases
Reliable, predictable connectivity to multiple third-party cloud
services is critical to enterprises’ business strategies. Talari
Cloud Connect unifies the management of enterprise connectivity to
SaaS and cloud-based services through the shared administration of
a Talari innovation called Cloud Conduits. These Cloud Conduits
offer multi-link, multipath, reliable connections between customer
locations and the Talari Cloud Connect technology running at the
CSP’s Point of Presence (PoP), along with shared administration.
Cloud Conduits deliver the same failsafe benefits of Talari’s
patented SD-WAN technology for SaaS and cloud access, without
requiring enterprise customers to deploy and maintain SD-WAN
software in the cloud.
“As enterprises embrace hybrid IT and multi-cloud postures in
pursuit of their digital-transformation objectives, they are
compelled to overhaul their WAN architectures and management models
to reliably, securely and cost-effectively deliver the cloud-based
applications and services that are becoming increasingly valuable
to business outcomes," said Brad Casemore, Research Vice President,
Datacenter Networks at IDC. “Talari Cloud Connect responds to the
challenges posed by multi-cloud, offering an approach to SD-WAN
that addresses the dynamic connectivity, bandwidth, and security
requirements at the intelligent edge.”
The UCaaS market is a popular time and money-saving enterprise
option. Analysts, including IDC Research, predict the UCaaS market
growing to more than $25 Billion by 2021. Talari’s Cloud Connect
technology helps leading UCaaS partners deliver a superior
platinum-quality service for loss- and latency-sensitive real-time
applications. CSPs announcing support today include RingCentral,
Pure IP, and Evolve IP, underscoring the immediate UCaaS appeal.
High-value UCaaS applications from these partners include managed
Voice over IP (VoIP), SIP trunking, contact centre, HD voice and
videoconferencing, instant messaging and presence, desktop sharing,
and online collaborative workspaces.
Improved enterprise cloud application access via cloud-based PoP
gateways is another natural Cloud Connect use case. Mode is using
Talari’s Cloud Connect to power a cloud service gateway ‘easy
button’ time and cost-savings approach for deployment. Reliable
SD-WAN access is delivered to the provider PoP closest to the SaaS
/ Cloud service.
Partner Cloud Managed Services Gains
Further delivering on the promise of Managed Service Provider
(MSP) offerings, Mode will offer enterprises a more advanced
solution using the same Talari Cloud Connect technology. Mode will
combine Cloud Connect technology with its own reliable, flexible,
cost-effective Cloud Private Network to enable reliable NaaS access
to every enterprise cloud service, SaaS and Internet location. This
NaaS scenario sees each enterprise Talari SD-WAN location leverage
Talari Cloud Connect for accessing the local Mode PoP closest to
the enterprise location. From there, traffic flows over Mode’s
reliable private backbone for efficient, reliable, predictable
access to all sites.
“Talari’s customers are heavily invested in complex cloud
business applications to securely power everyday operations
reliably and at scale,” said Patrick Sweeney, CEO at Talari
Networks. “Talari Cloud Connect ensures secure, reliable,
predictable access to SaaS and cloud-based network services,
without enterprises being forced to bear the burden and complexity
of deploying and managing SD-WAN infrastructure in the cloud. Cloud
Connect helps enterprises and their cloud services providers
deliver full multi-link visibility, reliability and bi-directional
QoS while accessing cloud/SaaS-based apps.”
Talari Cloud Connect technology also enables reliable,
predictable first/last mile access to cloud-based security and
infrastructure services. Talari partner Meta Networks provides
employees, contractors and partners with secure remote access to
corporate applications in private data centres or the cloud. This
Talari-Meta partnership addresses two of the most important trends
in IT today - cloud migration and always-secure employee
mobility.
Pricing and Availability
Rapid deployment of Cloud Connect occurs through multiple
high-traffic routes to market. Talari will offer a multi-tenant
Cloud Connect PoP technology in the cloud. Communication Service
Providers can obtain the Cloud Connect PoP platform functionality
at no additional cost for connecting with Talari SD-WAN customers.
Talari Cloud Connect software is available starting in October to
existing customers with no additional cost. More details on Talari
Cloud Connect, including a short overview video, are available
here.
About Talari
Talari is the leader in Failsafe SD-WANs™ and an NSS Labs
“Recommended” SD-WAN vendor. Talari SD-WAN offers both MPLS-class
high availability and superior Quality of Experience ensuring
predictable application performance for both apps and real-time
apps like VoIP and videoconferencing. Talari technology delivers a
multi-link WAN with 50 – 400 times more bandwidth per dollar, WAN
cost reductions of 40% – 80%. Talari is deployed in over 500
customers in more than 9,000 locations in over 40 countries and
boasts a 90+ NPS (Net Promoter Score). For more information,
visit www.talari.com.
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