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VeloCloud Brings SD-WAN to Equinix Performance HubsVeloCloud Networks Inc., a cloud networking services company, today announced it has developed a reference architecture that brings state-of-the-art Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) to Equinix's (News - Alert) Performance Hubs. As the extension of an enterprise corporate IT network co-located inside Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers, Equinix Performance Hubs strategically place corporate IT resources closer to end-user populations in Equinix data centers, resulting in increased application performance. VeloCloud's solution enables Equinix customers to leverage SD-WAN as a cost-effective option for connecting to their Performance Hubs with the same performance, reliability and control as if these services were within the customers' private network. "VeloCloud's development of a reference architecture for connecting to enterprise Performance Hubs inside Equinix represents a key step forward for next-generation enterprise networks," said Sanjay Uppal, CEO and co-founder of VeloCloud. "Equinix is the interconnection and data center leader, and this new architecture can help enterprises achieve unprecedented SaaS (News - Alert) application performance levels." VeloCloud's SD-WAN solutions enable enterprises to automate branch WAN deployments, assure performance to cloud and enterprise applications, and allow enterprise IT to roll out multiple virtual services to the branch. SD-WAN control enables application traffic to be carried independently of the underlying transport layer, enabling flexibility, best availability and performance while dramatically reducing IT complexity in the branches. VeloCloud's unique cloud-delivered approach to SD-WAN, with its multi-tenant cloud gateways co-located at major Equinix data centers, is a perfect complement to the Equinix platform. The Equinix platform provides a powerful services deployment ocation in the SD-WAN topology with optimal connections to network services and other SaaS applications. The service is currently available in Equinix IBX data centers located in Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C., metro areas in the United States. "The combined forces of globalization and the reliance on collaborative, business-critical applications are causing significant changes in how enterprise IT operates. Our goal with Performance Hub is to help enterprise customers maximize network and application performance," said Jim Poole, vice president, service providers at Equinix. "There is an opportunity for VeloCloud to bring enterprises much closer to their Performance Hubs and mission-critical applications hosted inside Equinix, which would enable highly scalable, performance-enhancing and cost-effective alternatives to traditional connectivity architectures." Equinix Performance Hub solutions enable enterprises by:
Equinix Performance Hub is driven by enterprises' interest in continuing to migrate more services to distributed cloud data centers. This architecture validates VeloCloud's unique SD-WAN approach to enabling public networks to be used in an enterprise-grade WAN, and to deliver cloud-deployable multi-tenant service gateways - both of which optimally complement Equinix's solution. About VeloCloud VeloCloud, the cloud-delivered SD-WAN company, simplifies branch WAN networking by automating deployment and improving performance over private, broadband Internet and LTE links for today's increasingly distributed enterprises. Winner of this year's Best Startup of Interop Award and named as a Red Herring (News - Alert) North America Top 100 company, VeloCloud is the first to provide all three elements needed to achieve a cloud-delivered SD-WAN: a cloud network for enterprise-grade connection to cloud and enterprise applications; software-defined control and automation; and virtual services delivery. VeloCloud has received financing from investors that include The Fabric, NEA and Venrock. VeloCloud has its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., with a development center in Chennai, India. For more information, visit http://www.velocloud.com and follow the company on Twitter (News - Alert) @VeloCloud.
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