The Best SD-WAN:2 Features Your Retail Company Needs to Have

Your retail company is in the market for SD-WAN vendors, but not sure where to start. In this video, I explain 2 features your retail company needs to have.

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Mike Smith has been helping companies select the best telecom, WAN, security, and cloud services since 1999. He founded AeroCom in 2003, and has been the recipient of numerous business telecommunications industry awards, including being recognized as one of the top 40 business people in tech-heavy Orange County, CA. Follow Mike on YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit and SpiceWorks.

Transcript

you work for a large retail organization and you guys are looking into the possibility of adding an SD WAN solution, maybe you have an employee today at all the sites or maybe you’re running a VPN, but either way you’re thinking, Hey, maybe we should be doing SD WAN But the problem is, is when you looked up SD WAN in SD WAN vendors, there were literally dozens of them, if not hundreds of them.

Which SD-WAN Vendors should you quote?

Then your question is which ones should we be quoting and why? Which types of solutions are going to be the best fit for us? Well, I can tell you that that all those solutions are not the same. They’re definitely all different. And there are some specific features that really cater to a large retail organization, especially when it comes to point of sale software and credit card processing, things like that. There are some features that are really help you out and really reduce the amount of problems it has to deal with. So I’m going to talk about those features today.

Contact me on recommendations for your SD-WAN vendors

But before we get too far ahead of myself, if you’d like my recommendations, I mean, it’s great to to watch the video and everything, but if you’d like a shortcut, shoot me an email or give me a call (714.593.0011) and ask me my recommendations On the best SD win solutions and vendors for your organization, I’ll save you a ton of time and you’ll end up making a better decision at the end of the day. And the nice thing is it’s absolutely free. So more information on that at the end of the video.

Use our website to research the brand you want

Also if you if you’re not quite ready for recommendation yet and you want to just browse SD WAN solutions, go to our website arrow come income. I guarantee you you’ve never seen a website like this before. Go check it out. You can look up SD WAN in the search bar and then you can browse SD WAN service providers by the features that you actually want and you can read about the providers, you can watch videos on them, and if you’d like pricing on them, that’s when you actually reach out and contact me. Or if you’d like just some more information or some recommendations on which vendors have a good reputation which don’t. So go check out our website while you’re there. Leave a couple of reviews. That’d be much appreciated. Also, don’t forget to hit the like subscribe and ring button on the video. That’ll help our videos. That’ll help you to know that our videos are good and it’ll get us out there to more I.T. professionals

Feature 1: Bi-Directional Failover

okay, so the first feature that you want to make sure that you have is a large retail organization. and when it comes to SD, when it’s bi directional fail over. So a lot of SD and solutions out there, if you go take a look at the video I made a long time ago, don’t judge, but the video I made on the different types of SD went architecture. Architecture. There’s different types. with bidirectional failover, it’s really important to have failover not just for your outbound internet traffic, but also your incoming Internet traffic in a lot of SD WAN solutions out there only do fail over for outbound internet traffic, well, that doesn’t help you out a whole lot because for your point of sale software, you also need inbound as well as credit card processing. You need inbound. by getting an SD-WAN solution that does failover for both outbound and and inbound traffic directional, you’re going to make sure you have way more uptime when it comes to the point of sale software and credit card processing. And it’s just overall better. that’s something you want to make sure that you have

SASE

another feature as a large retail organization that you want to make sure that you have with your SD WAN solution is SASE and or CASB and those are kind of put some notes here in the video as far as explaining what the acronyms mean. in essence, Sassy is adding security to the SD WAN solution. So for all the different sites right now, if you have firewalls at all the different sites, that’s not ideal, I know for the IT department. So at a lot of different retail organizations, you don’t have someone technical at each site. So if there is a firewall issue or something needs to be rebooted, you don’t really have someone there all the time that’s going to be able to do those things. And with a SASE solution, all the firewall you could have like a UTM firewall, know, in the cloud. So all the controls of the firewall are cloud based. So from I.T, you can make changes to the firewall, send them down to all the different appliances, all the different SD WAN appliances nationwide or worldwide, and you don’t have to have any hands on technical expertise on site. So it just makes a lot of sense. Also can be

CASB

is taking it a step further. So not only having firewall in the cloud I can UTM firewall in the cloud with CASB is taking it a step further and having things like EDR. So endpoint detection and response or manage detection and response going further with security into detection and response advisory services, that type of thing, that would be a CASB solution. So not only providing SD when not only providing firewall but also packaging up, you know, intrusion detection and response into the package. So as many security things as you can. And the advantage there is pretty obvious I mean, if you can find a provider that can do all those things, it’s just vendor consolidation, right? As a large retail organization, you have hundreds of sites and you have a lot of different things Going on is as many times as you can consolidate vendors, the better off you’re going to be. those are the two main features that you want to think about.

Confused? Reach out for my help

If you’re a large retail organization looking at SD WAN again if you like.  My recommendations, I’ll give you a shortcut. You don’t have to do all this research online by yourself. Just go ahead and reach out and contact me. Shoot me an email, give me a call(714.593.0011). I’m a broker for all the major SD win service providers, and I’ve been doing this for over 20 years, so I know the entire landscape. I know all the players involved. And based on your companies requirements, I can give you some quick recommendations in terms of the best technology to quote and the best vendors to quote it. I’ll also introduce you to the best salespeople to work with those vendors that I’ve worked with with my customers for years and I trust and also oversee the quoting process to make sure that you get the best pricing possible and you’re not having to deal with the used car salesman approach with the different salespeople. So and the nice thing is, on top of all that, I don’t charge you a dime for my broker service. So there’s absolutely no excuse not to at least reach out and see what I have to say. The service providers pay my broker fees, so no excuse. Just reach out.

Check out our website

And if you’re not quite ready for that, if you’d like to just browse SD when service providers based on features and read about them, go to our website and in the search bar type in SD win. And then from there on the left hand side, you can actually select different features that you’re looking for. For us to win, like the ones I mentioned today and in the topics. So something to take a look at. And as always, don’t forget to hit the like, subscribe and ring the bell. I’d really appreciate that and thanks for watching and I’ll catch you on the next one.