The cost of an unplanned outage ranges from $140K to $540K per hour. SASE makes HA achievable without 2x hardware investment.
High availability may be top of mind for your organization, and if not, it really should be. The cost range of an unplanned outage ranges from $140,000 to $540,000 per hour. Obviously, this varies greatly between organizations based on a variety of factors specific to your business and environment.
The adoption of the cloud makes high availability more critical than ever, as users and systems now require reliable, secure connectivity to function. With SASE and SSE solutions, vendors often focus on the availability SLA of the service. but modern access requires a broader application of HA across the entire solution. Starting with the location: simple, low-cost, zero-touch devices should be able to easily form HA pairs. Connectivity should then utilize the best path across multiple ISPs, connecting to the best point of presence with a suitable backup PoP nearby, and finally across a middle-mile architected for HA and performance.
Historically, HA was high effort and high cost as appliance-based solutions required nearly 2x investment to create HA pairs. Beyond just the appliances, building redundant data centers and connectivity was also out of reach for many organizations. Additionally, customers were typically responsible for architecting, deploying, and maintaining the HA deployment. greatly increasing the overall complexity of the environment.
Even if you have the time and budget to build your own HA solution globally, is the time and effort worth it to you? Complex HA configurations are difficult to manage on an ongoing basis, requiring specialized knowledge and skills, while not always working as expected when a failure occurs.
To protect your business, HA is essential, and SASE and SSE architectures should provide it on multiple levels natively as part of the solution. We should leave complicated command-line-based configurations and tunnels with ECMP load balancing in the past where they belong, replacing them with the simple, instant high availability of a SASE solution your organization can rely on.
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