Weekly Wrap for Dec. 20, 2019

Plus, Google expands its cloud security posture; and Cockroach Labs tests the cloud

The SD-WAN space has become a numbers game; Google Cloud gets more secure; and the cloud giants are all the same.

Fortinet Leapfrogs Cisco With 21,000 SD-WAN Customers

Google Cloud Beefs Up Security With Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet

Gap Narrows Between Azure, AWS, GCP in Cockroach Labs 2020 Report

SDxCentral Weekly Wrap Full Transcript

Today is December 20, 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.

Fortinet this week said its FortiGate Secure SD-WAN technology has been adopted by 21,000 customers, which happens to just outpace the adoption recently reported by rival Cisco.

The company’s customer count does line up with Gartner’s latest magic quadrant WAN (ran) edge report, which estimated Fortinet had approximately that many WAN edge customers.

However, that report suggested that Fortinet's customers were primarily leveraging the company’s next-generation firewall or unified threat management capabilities.

The vendor countered that concern by stating that its customer count reflects organizations that have specifically deployed the company’s SD-WAN technology.

The platform has enjoyed steady growth over the past year as the company has earned service provider contracts at a regular clip, including lucrative contracts with Telenor Sweden, SoftBank, and Orange Business Services.

Fortinet has also delivered a slew of integrations with leading public cloud providers Microsoft, Amazon, and most recently Google to bolster its cloud capabilities.

Google Cloud announced partnerships with a handful of vendors as part of its ongoing effort to beef up its security and attract more enterprise customers to its cloud platform and services.

Those vendors include Palo Alto Networks, McAfee, Qualys, and ForgeRock.

With Palo Alto Networks, Google is developing a multi-cloud security framework for its Anthos hybrid-cloud platform and multi-cloud Kubernetes deployments.

The McAfee deal is focused on endpoint security technology for Linux and Windows workloads, and for container security on Google Cloud infrastructure.

Qualys is adding its cloud-based security and compliance p...