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VeloCloud leverage numerous gateways worldwide, making them ideal for large global enterprises. Their platform is good for companies with remote workers, as their Workspace ONE product is fully integrated with SASE (See, What is the VeloCloud SASE Security Solution?). Further, VeloCloud’s SD WAN solution is PCI DSS 3.2 Certified, meaning that they are a good choice for companies in retail and financial market verticals. However, caution should be taken as VeloCloud offer SASE via an OEM agreement - and many of their products are separate, meaning that networks can become quite complex. This is also only offered as a fully managed solution, which could potentially raise costs.
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VeloCloud is an SD WAN vendor. Founded in 2012, it was bought in 2017 by its now-parent company VMware (a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, founded in 1998). They are headquartered in Palo Alto, California, NA, and offer SD WAN and SASE solutions to small, medium and large enterprises.
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VeloCloud’s SD WAN solution leverages numerous VMware SD WAN gateways globally. The solution is fully cloud-based, and is comprised of three main components which are licensed to be sold as one software bundle:
VeloCloud offers clients their Cloud WAN services. This includes hybrid, multicloud and SaaS functionality, whilst virtualising all network functions - including major functions such as packet steering and path selection. Offered as-a-service, it is designed to improve branch office agility and application performance. This includes a range of key features as listed below:
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VeloCloud offer clients their SASE security solution via an OEM agreement with Menlo Security. The solution provides secure access to applications via their Secure Web Gateway Functionality platform and next generation firewalling for securing corporate traffic.
The SASE Solution is designed to combine both cloud security and cloud networking, providing secure access to applications via 150+ global VMware SD WAN Gateways, with IaaS interconnect providing secure access to various cloud providers including; AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Zero trust network access (ZTNA), secure web gateways (SWG) and cloud access security broker (CASB) functions are also available.
SASE is also available to remote users, as the platform is powered by the VMware Workspace ONE Solution, which is designed to allow those working out of office to securely access enterprise applications. Workspace ONE is now integrated with SASE, meaning that out of office workers can access SASE PoPs remotely.
VeloCloud accesses Cloud vendors through numerous VMware SD-WAN Gateways. The VMware SD WAN gateways are deployed on premises at service providers or deployed worldwide at top tier cloud data centers. The VeloCloud offering allows for quality, secure global access to the cloud and network services via service insertion. VeloCloud’s offering is fully integrated with AWS, supports Google Cloud access and Azure is natively built into the VeloCloud solution via an Azure branch IPsec partnership and Integrated Virtual Hub NVA partner. This supports enterprise ability for dynamic scaling with the flexibility of a network-as-a-service offering.
VeloCloud’s Dynamic Multipath Optimization (DMPO) enhances the flow of data traffic between any SD WAN components dealing with forward data traffic. It also offers application acceleration services and has a number of key features:
WAN Optimization:
Application Acceleration:
VeloCloud supports remote users through its VMware Secure Access service. The VMware Secure Access solution unites its SD WAN and Workspace ONE solutions. VMware Secure Access uses a zero-trust network access service model and users are mapped to individual application policies. VeloCloud’s solution is cloud-hosted and is accessed through worldwide service nodes, this allows for significant reductions in latency and hair-pinning. VeloCloud provides a high level of support for remote users as remote usage is encapsulated within the SD-WAN fabric for consistency and a high degree of performance. The Workspace ONE solution uses unified access gateway as a service to reduce overheads in comparison to legacy VPNs and improve scalability. The cloud hosted service provides congruous policy enforcement across all users.
VeloCloud provides a strong managed services solution. VeloCloud’s offering provides dynamic multipath optimization, dynamic virtual paths, centralized management and offers visibility of application performance on one managed device. VeloCloud’s managed services solution for enterprise customers consists of hardware, software and services. This requires SD WAN Appliances to be deployed in each branch office, with a data core placed in the datacenter. The SD WAN Orchestrator is deployed within the data center and allows users to configure and manage supported devices.
Service providers that deploy Velocloud can use multiple links to configure traffic steering to provide consistent application access and higher bandwidth levels. Some service providers may deploy the managed service solution using three-tier service levels to ensure smooth roll out and operation.
Employing a fully managed solution improves application availability and WAN consistency for a monthly fee with no need to self-manage or deploy. Some services that are offered by service providers can include: performance reporting, design, installation and 24 hour management and monitoring. This allows IT management to outsource standard operations, ensuring the ability to focus on core business needs.
VeloCloud does not offer DIY or Co-managed SD WAN and instead this offering is provided as a fully managed solution by VeloCloud partner service providers. This reduces risk as it capitalizes on service provider facilities, expertise and economies of scale. A fully managed service provides resiliency due to 24 hour monitoring by service providers that improves performance and reliability in application delivery, which as a result of minimal application outage will improve employee productivity.
The VeloCloud portal is encompassed by the VMware SD WAN Orchestrator (See, What is the VeloCloud SD WAN Solution?). The VMware SD WAN Orchestrator provides access to a self-service web portal for configuration of policies and monitoring. The VMware SD WAN orchestrator is built on API-driven architecture for ease of integration and the enterprise and service provider portals provided both use granular, role-based access. The VeloCloud portal uses a scalable control pane and provides: Network, Application, Host metrics, Quality of Experience score and Diagnostic Application reports. The management and reporting available via the VeloCloud portal allows for more efficient troubleshooting and the ability to resolve network issues faster through the analysis of network and application performance.
Below is a table displaying the main focus points of the VeloCloud Service Level Agreement (SLA).
Service | Availability Commitment |
VMware SD-WAN | 99.99% |
VMware Secure Access | 99.90% |
VMware Cloud Web Security | 99.99% |
VMware SD-WAN Unavailability and SLA Events:
SLA Event | Description |
Data Plane Event | Measured by VMware log files or trouble ticket, period > 1 minute in which the SD-WAN controller/gateway is unable to receive or transmit IP packets. |
Control and Management Plane (CMP) | Inability of the SD-WAN orchestrator to monitor or configure edges for a period > 30 seconds. |
Unavailability | Description |
Login Issues | For a period > 1 minute users and admins are unable to use correct credentials to login. |
VMware Workspace ONE VEM Console Issues | For a period > 1 minute admins unable to connect to network connected and enrolled remote devices using the Workspace ONE VEM Console. |
Unavailability | Description |
Process Request Delay | Period > 1 minute in which there is a delay of over two seconds for the system to process requests. |
Management APIs/UI | Period > 30 seconds where management APIs or UI is unreachable. |
Authentication Request Delay | Period > 1 minute in which there is a delay of over eight seconds for the authentication service to process requests. |
VMware VeloCloud services support MPLS, Cable, DSL and LTE underlays. VeloCloud’s offering is primarily focused on delivering overlay solutions and therefore do not manage and support SD WAN underlays first hand. Underlays are instead provided, supported and managed by third party partners. VeloCloud has strong partner channels which means that there are many possible options for underlay services.
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