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Infovista enhances SD-WAN with application intelligence and cloud-native orchestration

March 19, 2019

Infovista, a network performance provider, announced a cloud-native management and control with application intelligence for SD-WAN, delivering application performance across any WAN, according to a press release. 

The enterprise network has become the central nervous system of modern digital businesses, and SD-WAN is enabling this digital transformation. Infovista's Ipanema SD-WAN with cloud-native management and control of applications combines session-based routing and dynamic path selection of the underlay network with an overlay of application visibility and control of the quality of experience for business-critical applications. 

Additionally, Ipanema automatically understands application delivery requirements and maintains application quality of experience by using machine learning techniques. It distinguishes between the applications and their flows at the user session level, and it associates and enforces business policies. 

"Rather than taking the approach of early SD-WAN solutions that align WAN performance with availability, Ipanema SD-WAN is laser-focused on delivering and maintaining application quality," José Duarte, CEO of Infovista, said in the press release. "This is a fundamental shift from network routing and WAN optimization to one of application and user experience. IT decision makers can now focus on their applications and take advantage of business intent policies to enforce consistent application performance and reliability." 

As enterprises continue to migrate their business applications to the cloud to gain both cost savings and increased availability, the tradeoff is performance to the end user, the press release said. A recent study conducted by Forrester Consulting for Infovista finds that only 22 percent of SD-WAN users expect to see application performance consistency as a benefit. However, 42 percent of enterprises that move to an application-aware SD-WAN said they enjoy a consistent user experience. The Ipanema SD-WAN will allow infrastructure and operations professionals to deploy to an application-aware SD-WAN that dynamically controls the quality of experience at the application session level to realize their digital transformation.

Capabilities include:

• Application quality score.
• Cloud orchestrator.
• User QoE dashboard.
• Dynamic cloud application database. 
• Deployment flexibility.
• Multi-layered routing and security.

The Ipanema SD-WAN solution is also available with multi-tenant management, allowing the solution to be offered by managed service providers in a range of channel configurations.