GTT Communications has announced the expansion of its global alliance with HPE, strengthening GTT’s managed services portfolio to simplify the increasing complexity of enterprise networks and improve their security.
The combination of the GTT Envision platform and managed LAN/WLAN solutions, delivered through HPE Aruba Central, allows companies to easily and securely connect users, devices and applications in diverse environments, responding to the growing demand for scalable, high-performance and AI-enabled networks, without neglecting infrastructure security.
As businesses face increasing demands driven by AI adoption and evolving security threats, they are rethinking how they design, manage and secure their networks. According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, single-vendor SASE solutions are expected to account for 85% of a $21 billion global market by 2030, as enterprises shift toward vendors capable of delivering both networking and security.
“The single-vendor SASE value proposition becomes stronger when both SD-WAN and SSE are key elements of the customer’s architecture, improving policy consistency, operations, and accountability,” Mauricio Sanchez, Senior Director, Enterprise Security and Networking, Dell’Oro Group, says in the report.
“Enterprise networks are increasingly complex, with a greater volume of traffic, greater distribution and an increase in threats,” said Fletcher Keister, Chief Product Technology Officer at GTT. “The GTT Envision platform is designed to support leading solutions like HPE Networking, ensuring our customers have access to reference technology as their needs evolve, both in performance and security.”
Secure and Scalable SD-WAN Managed Services
GTT and HPE have been collaborating for more than a decade to deliver secure and scalable SD-WAN managed services using HPE Networking EdgeConnect SD-WAN. This alliance has now expanded to include HPE Networking SSE, allowing GTT to bolster its GTT Secure Connect portfolio with a fully managed, single-vendor SASE solution based on GTT’s global Tier 1 network, integrating HPE’s SD-WAN technology and cloud security within a Zero Trust architecture.
This solution reduces vendor proliferation, simplifies operations, improves application performance in hybrid and multicloud environments, and provides Zero Trust security capabilities. In this way, organizations can centralize the management of their networks and strengthen protection against growing digital threats.
“GTT has always been at the forefront supporting its customers in the transformation of their WAN networks, thanks to a differentiated approach at the Edge that simplifies the adoption of SD-WAN and SASE architectures,” commented Jon Green, CTO, Networking at HPE. “The addition of HPE Networking SSE and Managed LAN/WLAN capabilities further strengthens GTT’s ability to deliver a unified networking and security experience, seamlessly connecting users, devices and applications across data centers, cloud, SaaS environments and the Edge. By extending these capabilities across its global managed services platform, GTT helps organizations simplify their operations, improve visibility and accelerate time to value. Together we are helping businesses securely modernize to meet the demands of a world driven by artificial intelligence.”
GTT helps organizations simplify operations, improve visibility and accelerate time to value
GTT Secure Connect with HPE SSE is available now, while expanding the portfolio with LAN/WLAN solutions is expected to be available to enterprise customers later this year. The proposal will allow organizations to move towards more integrated connectivity models, in which performance, scalability and security are part of the same network strategy.
