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I WANT TO
REINFORCE THAT
THE WAY WE ARE
APPROACHING
SECURE ACCESS
IN TERMS OF
SUPPORTING
HYBRID IT IS A
VERY UNIQUE
APPROACH.
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Does the customer experience
the direct effect of transitioning
from a traditional approach to a
hybrid approach?
The way we try to achieve the results is
through the end-user who is the consumer
of the technology. They don’t necessarily
care whether something is on-premise,
cloud or hybrid. So, suppose I am the user,
I am basically accessing the resource, let’s
call it storage or an application, I shouldn’t
have to care whether it’s in the cloud or
on-premise. That’s the benefit I derive
as an end-user. However, the person that
deploys this, let’s call it the administrator,
who is buying it from the vendor should
see a lot of benefit, both in the context of
economics where they don’t have to spend
a lot of money in infrastructure build-out,
as well as seeing a lot of efficiencies and
flexibility because they have more ways
and more options of deploying the services
they support.
So overall, from an innovation
standpoint, companies should be
taking a hybrid IT approach?
Absolutely and there are many cases
where they have done it and reaped the
benefits of doing so. I want to reinforce
that the way we are approaching secure
access in terms of supporting hybrid IT
is a very unique approach. We take this
approach because we do not distinguish
between on-premise and cloud and we
also try to make it a seamless experience
from an end-user standpoint to give them
a common client experience without them
having to know anything about the end
deployment. That’s how we differentiate
ourselves and deliver the best productivity,
visibility and compliance. n
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