VMware taps pros in the field to write the book on SD-WAN

Software-defined wide area networking is getting a lot of press. Some claim it’s the skeleton key to a number of vexing information-technology puzzles, like multicloud and internet of things, for example. Is there a way businesses can cut through the hype and find out if SD-WAN is really for them? “There is a lot of noise out there,” said Dave Twinam (pictured, left), director of systems engineering SD-WAN, VeloCloud Business Unit, at VMware Inc. The many vendors including VMware bringing SD-WAN solutions to market may not be dumb about the topic. But it might be preferable to hear from enterprise-IT practitioners actually using it day in, day out. “You don’t understand what the implementation’s going to be like until you’re in it,” said Rosa Lear (pictured, right), director of marketing of the VeloCloud Business Unit at VMware.