Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 04 | Page 34

FEATURE: CLOUD MANAGEMENT SD-WAN: AN AGILE ENABLER OF ENTERPRISE MOVEMENT TOWARDS CLOUD Today, businesses are increasingly mixing off-premises assets to their existing IT infrastructure. Many have moved commoditised workloads like collaboration (Office 365) to SaaS. Some are moving custom workloads tied to their critical business process to IaaS (in Amazon or Azure). Productive users are everywhere, on-premise but also on the road or at home. The Internet is becoming the backbone of enterprise communications, writes Taj ElKhayat, Regional Vice President, Middle East and Africa at Riverbed Technology. 34 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com