Why SD-WAN Is Essential to Navigating the New Normal in Business

Customers are scrambling as remote working becomes the new normal for businesses of all sizes. A recent Gartner survey found that 82 percent of companies plan to permit employees to work remotely at least part of the time after the coronavirus runs its course, and 47 percent intend to offer full-time remote work options moving forward. While smaller companies may have readily transitioned their communications to accommodate remote work, others — especially enterprise businesses — are still struggling to implement permanent, more robust UCaaS and CCaaS solutions and migrate to a multi-cloud environment to support these applications.

With UCaaS and CCaaS on the rise, cloud solutions are increasingly in demand, as organizations plan to invest an average of $73.8 million over the next 12 months. Though customers may be willing to make the investment, there are still concerns around security, bandwidth, and reliability — especially if the right tools aren’t deployed. Enter Bring Your Own Carrier (BYOC), Session Delivery and SD-WAN to neutralize those concerns.

Join Channel Futures, Oracle, and Zoom for this live video roundtable discussion and follow-up networking session to learn how to prepare your clients to achieve the digital transformation needed to succeed in today’s new work environment. Topics include:

• Creating easier migration with Bring Your Own Carrier (BYOC)
• Why SD-WAN saves money and stops communication headaches
• Best practices to increase network reliability and security

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Speakers:

Laura Padilla, Head of Business Development and Channel, Zoom Video Communications

Laura brings over 15 years of experience in business development, channels, marketing, and alliances to Zoom. She most recently ran strategic and technological alliances at Nutanix, where her team built a large ecosystem of solution partners to grow new use cases and revenue. Previously, she built Box’s first channel program and strategy, supporting the indirect sales growth to 10x during her time there. Laura has built her career as part of the early team at several successful high-growth companies – Riverbed, Box, Nutanix, and now Zoom. Known as a functional leader, her strength is building new functional teams to drive critical growth initiatives to success.

Gary Levy, Vice President Worldwide Alliances and Channels, Oracle Communications

Gary Levy is vice president worldwide alliances and channels for Oracle Communications. In this role, he is responsible for fostering relationships that enhance Oracle Communications partnerships and alliances to drive growth and transformation of the channel ecosystem. His global team enables partners to provide integrated communications and cloud solutions to their customers to accelerate their digital journey – from network evolution to digital business to customer experience. Levy brings more than 20 years of experience in the field as a successful sales and channel leader. Prior to Oracle Communications he transformed Avaya’s channel organization. His insight and leadership led his team to creating Avaya’s Master Agent program and success in designing and launching the IP Office Powered by Cloud program.

George Just, Vice President Worldwide SD-WAN Sales, Oracle Communications

George Just is vice president worldwide SD-WAN sales for Oracle Communications. He is responsible for driving growth for SD-WAN within Oracle and coordination across channel, alliances, marketing and field sales. A dynamic speaker with 30 years of experience in networking as an architect, engineer and sales leader, Just has a unique ability to dissect and explain complex networking concepts to a wide variety of audiences including C-level executives, managers and technical decision-makers. As part of the executive team at Talari Networks (acquired by Oracle), a pioneer in the SD-WAN market, he was directly involved in the development and positioning of this technology as a solution to the many issues that enterprises face, and then educating and inspiring channel partners to bring that solution to their customers.

Gina Kennedy-Toney, Contributing Editor, Channel Futures

Gina is a marketing executive with over 20 years’ experience across many technical arenas; specifically cloud services to include cloud communications, connectivity, security, and computing.   Gina’s experience is unique in that she has a far-reaching background in sales, affording her the insight to understand customer needs as well as partners’ requirements, essential to educate and acquire customers, close business, and drive revenue “North of Normal.”