Prisma SD-WAN: The New Face of CloudGenix

Since Palo Alto Networks acquired CloudGenix approximately 10 months ago, we have been relentlessly executing on the strategy we announced at acquisition: extending our leadership in next-generation SD-WAN and delivering the industry’s most comprehensive secure access service edge (SASE) solution to the market. Palo Alto Networks is now recognized as a leader in the 2020 Gartner WAN Edge Infrastructure Magic Quadrant. We delivered machine learning-based capabilities to dramatically simplify network operations and enhanced our SASE solution with Prisma Access 2.0 integrated with Prisma SD-WAN. We are truly grateful to our customers and partners for trusting us with their SD-WAN and SASE needs.

Prisma SD-WAN

When we started CloudGenix in 2013, we chose the name to reflect the “Cloud Generation” of IT that needed a fundamentally different solution compared to the legacy packet-routing approaches of other vendors. Due to COVID-19, we have now seen nearly 10 years worth of IT acceleration in 10 months – in digital transformation, work from anywhere and hybrid cloud adoption.

At Palo Alto Networks, our brand name “Prisma” captures these transitions best as this brand represents the journey toward the cloud for our customers. As a result, today, we are renaming CloudGenix SD-WAN to Prisma SD-WAN. Prisma SD-WAN delivers the industry’s first next-gen SD-WAN with the following unique characteristics:

SASE Leadership With Prisma SD-WAN and Prisma Access

Prisma SD-WAN integrated with Prisma Access delivers the industry’s most complete SASE solution. We provide seamless integration across SASE by extending CloudBlades support for third party service integrations, delivering single sign-on with RBAC for SASE management and enabling Autonomous Digital Experience Management across SASE.

Customers Love Prisma SD-WAN

As another testament to the power of our next-gen SD-WAN solution, Gartner recently published their 2021 Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: WAN Edge Infrastructure report where Prisma SD-WAN repeatedly beat all other vendors with a perfect score of 5/5! Many other vendors dropped their positions, while Prisma SD-WAN grew stronger in every category. This is a direct result of our maniacal focus on solving customer problems and delivering customer delight.

Delivering 243% ROI

In addition, Forrester Research recently conducted an independent study of Palo Alto Networks next-generation SD-WAN and found that an average customer who deploys Prisma SD-WAN would receive a 243% return on their investment within three years! For more information, read “The Total Economic Impact(™) of Palo Alto Networks for Network Security and SD-WAN,” a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Research on behalf of Palo Alto Networks, September 2020.

Leading With Innovation: Autonomous Infrastructure

Our customers will not stop innovating and neither will the Prisma SD-WAN team! In the past few months, we’ve announced several additions to our next-generation Prisma SD-WAN solution including:

• Machine learning-based capabilities to further simplify network operations.
• A small form factor SD-WAN appliance designed for retail and small offices/home offices (SOHO).
• A high-performance SD-WAN appliance suited for large campus locations.
• Seamless integration of Prisma Access cloud-delivered security.

Our vision for Prisma SD-WAN and SASE is to deliver secure, autonomous infrastructure by natively integrating Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM) with our SASE solution. With ADEM, you can monitor end user experience and provide segment-wise insights across the entire application delivery path. Our vision doesn’t stop with visibility and insights – Prisma SD-WAN uses a wealth of DEM data on application and network traffic to auto-correct application performance, steer around network bottlenecks and identify root causes for issues where possible. Much like self-driving vehicles are ushering in a new era in transportation, ADEM integrated with the Palo Alto Networks’ SASE solution heralds a new era of autonomous infrastructure and security.

We couldn’t be more excited about this iconic rebrand moment here at Palo Alto Networks. Learn how Prisma SD-WAN can help simplify management of your branch locations in our free trial.

ESG Research : Transitioning Network Security Controls to the Cloud, 2020

ESG Research: Technology Spending Intentions, 2021

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