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Gartner® 2025 Enterprise Networking Report 

It’s time to rethink your network strategy.

Hybrid-work, zero-trust, and cloud-adoption is the name of the game. SD-WAN alone won’t solve for these. By 2027, 65% of SD-WAN purchases will be part of a single-vendor SASE offering, which is an increase from 20% in 2024. It’s clear – the shift to SASE is breaking down the silos between networking and security, creating unified, scalable solutions.

The Gartner® 2025 Strategic Roadmap for Enterprise Networking report recommends to include SASE offerings on the shortlist when making SD-WAN, SWG, NGFW, ZTNA, and CASB investment decisions. Why? Because SASE is becoming the standard deployment model to connect users, devices, locations, and applications securely.

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Insights at a glance:
  • AI Automation: Why and when enterprise networks need to shift to AI-driven automation.
  • Connectivity and AI Growth: How growing AI workloads will drive the expansion of high-performance connectivity.
  • Security for Cloud: The implications of SD-WAN and SASE solving for cloud and Internet security.
  • Convergence and Zero-Trust: The need for siloed operations to integrate, with zero-trust adoption.

 

*2025 Strategic Roadmap for Enterprise Networking, : Karen Brown, Tim Zimmerman, Andrew Lerner, Mike Leibovitz, 22 October 2024

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