It’s time to level up the network for the hybrid workforce

1. It’s time to level up
the network for the
hybrid workforce
Prakash Mana, CEO, Cloudbrink

2. “Enterprises are deploying a
mix of technologies for secure
remote access, including VPN,
ZTNA, SD-WAN and SASE — on
average respondents are using
2.3 different solutions, but…”

3. Surveys
• According to Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
research commissioned by Cloudbrink, 42% of the workforce
works out of the office for at least two days a week — a figure
expected to reach 49% by 2025
• Yet the EMA survey of 354 IT professionals found multiple
challenges for enterprises in adapting their networks to the
needs of the hybrid workforce.
• The company — a global 500 enterprise — ran tests using its
existing SD-WAN, VPN and ZTNA solutions but found none of
them able to address the remote developer use case.

4. Hybrid working network
solutions are failing
• Trade-offs between security and performance are common
and the EMA research suggests that IT departments have
come to accept them as inevitable.

5. Tackling a world designed for
offices and DCs
• The number of users working remotely has multiplied
• IT no longer always controls how users are connecting to
enterprise networks
• Hardware rollouts designed to overcome connectivity
problems at remote locations increase short term costs
• It takes longer to resolve technical problems for remote users

6. Secure remote access options
• The EMA report identified four priorities driving CIO’s hybrid
workplace strategies: employee productivity (45%), security
(42%), employee satisfaction (39%) and operational overhead
(33%).

7. It noted that while many
current solutions can address
the security requirements,
many fall short of the
requirements for performance
and user experience.

8. The task ahead is to ensure
parity of experience for staff
regardless of their location —
or risk creating an underclass of
hybrid workers with low job
satisfaction and suboptimal
productivity

9. Get In Touch
• Get In Touch
• Prakash Mana is the CEO and founder of Cloudbrink, which
provides high-performance secure application access as a
service. He held previous leadership roles at Pulse Secure and
Citrix.