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Fortinet Secure SD-WAN integration with Network Connectivity Center allows customers to more effectively interconnect applications and workloads running on Google Cloud for hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud deployments. This delivers the best of both worlds, bridging a first-party native cloud underlay from Google Cloud with a best-in-class secure SD-WAN and cloud on-ramp service from Fortinet. The result is an even more simplified, automated, and operationally efficient cloud on-ramp and SD-WAN experience.

With more than 90% of enterprises employing multi- and hybrid clouds (according to the Flexera 2021 State of Cloud report), applications and workloads can reside anywhere among the various combinations of data centers, network edges, and clouds that may be used. And let’s not forget the extra twists that can be added when global and regional deployments are thrown into the mix. This combination often results in significant challenges and overhead for network, security, and cloud operation teams to manage, operate, and secure, particularly if these teams are also faced with a lack of resources and a skills gap shortage.

• Where applications reside should not matter to end users. It’s no stretch of the imagination to say that end users are typically unforgiving and expect a superior application experience at all times. As such, an organization’s choice of deployment options and strategy should be transparent to its users. As a result, the interconnecting of applications across cloud regions, hybrid clouds, and multi-clouds requires performance, scalability, and visibility into the application user experience to make timely adjustments as required.
• Spanning across multiple points of deployments across data center, hybrid clouds, and multi-clouds creates extra work and visibility gaps for network and security teams. Often, this means needing to configure and manage multiple networks and clouds. To simply, streamline, and secure across this highly distributed environment, organizations need to pursue consistent policies across their deployment and automate operational and response tasks as much as possible.
• Organizations are driven to deliver business results and outcomes. In today’s and tomorrow’s world, this means cloud. However, given the inherit complexities of hybrid- and multi-clouds and the need to interconnect applications and data across these instances, organizations sometimes do so at the expense of security and operational efficiency and effectiveness.