Weekly Wrap for Dec. 13, 2019

Plus, VMware and Silver Peak top Gartner's WAN Edge ranking; and VMware is banking on vSphere to topple Red Hat

AWS' Outposts, Wavelengths are the nail in SD-WAN's coffin; Gartner favors VMware, Silver Peak WAN Edge; and VMware is targeting Red Hat's Kubernetes lead.

Aviatrix CEO: SD-WAN Is Dead. AWS Killed It

VMware, Silver Peak Lead SD-WAN Pack; Cisco, Riverbed Lose Ground

VMware vSphere Key to Slicing Red Hat’s Kubernetes Head Start

SDxCentral Weekly Wrap Full Transcript

Today is December 13, 2019, and this is the SDxCentral Weekly Wrap where we cover the week’s top stories on next-generation IT infrastructure.

This week’s episode of the Weekly Wrap is sponsored by Silver Peak. Learn more about the Silver Peak SD-WAN solution.

Aviatrix’s bombastic CEO Steve Mullaney said that Amazon’s recent announcements tied to its on-premises infrastructure and edge initiatives could spell the end of SD-WAN as we know it today.

The executive cited Amazon’s Outposts on-premises platform that the cloud giant recently launched on a commercial basis and its newly announced Wavelengths edge platform as two that could increase the cloud focus for SD-WAN.

Mullaney explained that those platforms will allow enterprises to shrink their own data centers that have typically been the home to their SD-WAN services.

Instead, enterprises will increase their reliance on public cloud providers to host the data center and networking components that make up those services.

Mullaney said that he expects Amazon’s cloud rivals Microsoft and Google will launch similar initiatives that will increase the opportunity for enterprises to migrate their SD-WAN services into the cloud.

He did note that such a drastic move might not happen for another five years, but that at this point it’s inevitable and that today’s SD-WAN iteration is dead.

Mullaney joined Aviatrix earlier this year claiming that the public cloud networking startup was going to aggressively take market share away from market stalwarts Cisco and VMware.

VMware and Silver Peak continued to lead Gartner’s ranking of the market’s top WAN Edge infrastructure providers, while Cisco and Riverbed lost ground.

Gartner’s Magic Quadrant rankings for 2019 had VMware and Silver Peak as the only inhabitants in the highly coveted “leaders” box in the market that is also closely tied to SD-WAN services.

Those two vendors were cited for having the most complete platform available to ...