SD-WAN and SASE Managed Services Survey 2024

A Futuriom Research Report

Futuriom, a leading research and analyst firm, conducted a survey of 192 enterprise networking and security professionals. The SD-WAN and SASE Managed Services Survey highlights:

  • The biggest challenges in managing wide-area networks (WANs) are complexity and cost.
  • The integration of SASE and SD-WAN technologies is overwhelmingly viewed favorably by enterprise networking experts.
  • Automating network visibility, improving network performance, and improving network security are the top budget focus areas.
  • There will continue to be a diversity of SD-WAN/SASE deployment models.

The importance of building and managing security, reliable networks has grown more important than ever. Whether it’s digital transformations, cloud transformations, AI transformations, network transformations, or data transformations—the network powers everything. In managing these transformations, enterprises are grappling with many issues: Security, data governance, cloud costs, application flexibility, and more. AI has only served to accelerate this trend. AI turbo-charges the need for secure access to data, clouds, and private data centers. The networks that connect this infrastructure must be robust, flexible, and secure.

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“AI will drive the next generation of network infrastructure and security requirements for organizations,” said Scott Raynovich, Founder and Chief Technology Analyst at Futuriom. “This will increase the requirements for enterprise networks, and capabilities such as those provided by Aryaka AI>Perform as part of their Unified SASE solution are needed to ensure successful value realization of enterprise AI applications.”