Verizon on Wednesday said it is teaming up with SevOne to give its enterprise clients more visibility into the performance of Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD WAN) services through a unified reporting system.
According to the carrier, the new integrated web interface enables a view of services across both the physical and virtual network. That means IT professionals will now be able to analyze performance of the hybrid WAN to improve deliver of applications; correlate disparate metrics into a single-services view that includes the SD WAN, application performance, and supporting infrastructure; automate baseline performance metrics; unify performance metrics across network, security, and applications; and provide speed to intelligence at scale across a global footprint.
“Companies are well into their journeys with next-generation virtualized environments to accelerate their businesses, yet many don’t have the required level of operational insight,” SevOne CEO Jack Sweeney said. “The collaboration between SevOne and Verizon provides organizations with unprecedented business agility that allows them to proactively manage more of their digital infrastructure, visualize and report and troubleshoot quickly.”
SevOne CMO and EVP Jim Melvin said SevOne is providing the platform to Verizon Enterprise Solutions, which in turn will use it to provide improved services to clients. Verizon Enterprise Solutions, he said, is one of the 40 percent of top IT outsourcers and 60 percent of North American mobile and wireline broadband carriers who use SevOne’s solutions.
Verizon Vice President of Networking and Innovation Shawn Hakl said the expansion of its SD WAN portfolio marks a “major milestone” in the carrier’s shift toward fully virtualizing the network and delivering virtual business services.
“This initiative plays a major part in our overall enterprise digital transformation strategy, in which we are committed to helping clients accelerate innovation and maintain a competitive edge through simplified management and cost control,” he said.
A Verizon spokeswoman on Wednesday said the new service is available immediately and is already deployed with a number of Verizon’s enterprise clients.
