Cisco SD-WAN Awarded CRN 2019 Product of the Year

Container cloud: Enables IT to deliver Container-as-a-service to developers and enable DevOps
Turnkey: Integrated Kubernetes platform for production grade cloud native applications
Cloud Managed: Intersight SaaS based management of infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters
Economic: Eliminate penalties of 3 rd party hypervisor licenses for cloud-native applications
Future proof: Delivers a single platform for the support of current and future workloads

CRN announced that Cisco SD-WAN won its 2019 Product of the Year Award for Software-Defined Networking.

The SD-WAN market is growing rapidly, thanks to the rapid business adoption of cloud services. The market demands new approaches connecting branches and cloud instances that delivers robust security to every device and every cloud.We are leading this charge. Seventy companies of the Fortune 100 use Cisco SD-WAN; we have 20,000 SD-WAN customers in total, making Cisco the market leader in the category (verified by Gartner and IDC). The fact that CRN recognized the Cisco SD-WAN solution as the leader in all three of its judging criteria (technology innovation, financial opportunity, and market demand) speaks to our intense focus on making our customers and partners successful.The advantages of helping businesses adopt SD-WAN are significant. IDC research shows that almost 95% of the enterprises they surveyed  expect to be using SD-WAN within 24 months.Read the full story: CRN 2019 Products of the Yearsource: crn.com