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An increasing number of technology leaders like you are modernizing their IT infrastructure from traditional blade computing to hybrid cloud environments while reducing their operating costs.

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If you’re a technology leader at an enterprise, you’re under pressure to develop and deploy a secure IT infrastructure that supports and scales to a hybrid workforce. And you need to do it fast. Otherwise, your organization’s recovery from the economic conditions of the pandemic could stall. As your team continually battles relentless cyber-attacks, you could also see productivity plummet as a result, affecting the company’s revenue.

You may be hearing a lot about SASE these days. That acronym stands for Secure Access Service Edge. Some IT folks pronounce it “sassy,” and it’s an architecture, not a product. In short, SASE enables you to combine networking and security functions into a single, seamless cloud-based architecture. This way you can provide secure access to all your organization’s data and apps from anywhere your users may be working.

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