Palo Alto Networks & Dell Join Forces for a Modern SD-WAN Solution

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, enterprises are struggling to manage complex, distributed networks that span across multiple locations, cloud environments and edge devices. Traditional WAN architectures are not only cumbersome to manage but also lack the agility and intelligence needed to adapt to dynamic business demands. As a result, organizations can face prolonged downtime, limited visibility into network performance, and the inability to swiftly implement changes, all of which hinder operational efficiency and growth.

Palo Alto Networks and Dell Technologies are partnering to address the challenges of legacy networking and SD-WAN solutions that have fallen short in delivering on the transformative promise of SD-WAN. As a stepping stone to a full SASE deployment, Palo Alto Networks and Dell enable the integration of a diverse set of wide area network (WAN) connection types, improve application performance and visibility, enhance security and compliance, as well as reduce the overall cost and complexity of customers' WAN. Combined, Palo Alto Networks and Dell Technologies offer joint customers an industry-proven solution with key customer benefits:

• Rapidly deploy branches with zero-touch deployment with no routing complexity
• Deliver foundational application defined SD-WAN capabilities
• Quickly onboard Prisma Access enabling Zero Trust Branch
• Automate day two operations with proactive and predictive analysis and insight.
• Identify IoT devices at the branch and apply security policy enforcement
• Improve application performance by 5x with application acceleration
• Deploy expert-designed architectures with a single appliance for secure, scalable SD-WAN
• Enjoy peace of mind with global vendors who offer strong SLAs and dependable channels, ensuring maximum uptime for your business applications.

The Dell and Palo Alto Networks Solution

Together, Palo Alto Networks and Dell Technologies will deliver a Zero Trust branch and enable significant value to customers. The combined solution provides customers SD-WAN capabilities that are pre integrated and validated on Dell Servers allowing for simplified onboarding and deployment at branch sites enabling these key differentiators:

Unparalleled connectivity with no routing complexity

Customers can leverage all WAN links, such as MPLS, broadband and 5G/LTE, to ensure availability and resiliency.

• Our application session-based approach allows application traffic across all WAN paths based on performance and bandwidth requirements.
• A centralized controller-based architecture simplifies network connectivity by automatically updating network topology and access list changes with no routing complexity

Exceptional user experience with Application-defined Architecture

Our solution automatically determines the best possible path for each application session based on real-time data and business intent logic where applications are ubiquitous across physical DCs, SaaS and Cloud workloads:

• Session layer operations and metrics without the need for bookend routers.
• Real-time path selection to ensure the best user experience, whether the traffic is destined directly out to the internet, through the SSE solution, or back to the physical/cloud DCs directly.

Improve application performance by 5x with Application Acceleration.

Poor application performance significantly hinders employee productivity. This is more prominent as modern applications have become more dynamic and personalized. Customers need a solution that improves employee productivity with a better application experience. Traditional content-caching and existing solutions cannot solve the challenges of poor performance for modern applications.

• Prisma SASE App Acceleration is the only solution that uses predictive modeling to anticipate user behavior and prefetch dynamic content.
• Our patented app acceleration module adapts to understand user-to-app traffic and provides superior application performance for static and dynamic apps.

Discover and secure all devices with IoT security.

Leveraging Device-ID on the SD-WAN appliance our solution can provide IoT security with device-level Zero Trust enforcement and inspection:

• Automatic device inventory by SD-WAN appliance
• Device-based security with Layer 7 context
• Continuous monitoring for device trust verification (MAC spoofing) and behavioral anomaly detection

Improve mean time to resolution with ADEM and AIOps

With Natively integrated Autonomous Digital Experience Management (ADEM), IT administrators are empowered to troubleshoot and resolve issues easily through our Strata Cloud Manager.

• Segment-wise insights into network and application performance issues allow administrators to quickly isolate and root cause issues.
• Interactive and easy-to-interpret responses with Natural Language Processing powered Strata Copilot for SD-WAN provide relevant suggestions, rapid responses and guided remediations

Prisma SD-WAN and Dell delivers End-to-End Application Assurance for Best User Experience

An Industry-Proven Solution

Palo Alto Networks and Dell Technologies collaborate to provide customers with a proven solution. This offering will be generally available to our customers starting Q4 of CY24 and focuses on improving application performance and user experience, enhancing security and compliance, and simplifying network management and operations. By integrating Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN with Dell PowerEdge, globally distributed organizations can establish resilient paths for all internal and cloud-bound data traffic, enabling businesses to build a robust infrastructure to meet critical business needs while providing deep customer insights and analytics for optimizing network performance and security.

Learn more about what Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN and Dell PowerEdge can do for you.

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