The Necessity of SD WAN
SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) is a modern networking technology that has gained significant popularity in recent years. It's a virtual overlay that provides a secure, scalable, and efficient way to connect multiple sites, branches, and data centers....
Redvine Networks collaborate with Lytn to enhance network intelligence in Africa
28 August 2023, Johannesburg - Redvine Networks, the fully managed secure SD-WAN and networking service provider and distributor, has collaborated with French software developer Lytn, to combine machine learning (ML) and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to build...
Leveraging SASE and AI for enhanced network security
Leveraging SASE and AI for enhanced network security Morne Vermeulen and Wesley van Rayne at Redvine Networks In today's dynamic operating environment, businesses need to adapt to the evolving demands of remote work, distributed teams, and cloud-based services. Secure...
Redvine wins VMWare Technical Partner of the Year award
06 June 2023, Johannesburg - Fully managed secure SD-WAN, SASE and networking service provider and distributor, Redvine Networks has been recognised as the 2023 VMWare Technical Partner of the Year. The award recognises the technical excellence and capability of...
Enhancing the network security ecosystem through AI
Morné Vermeulen and Wesley van Rayne at Redvine Networks The rapid digital transformation of businesses, adoption of cloud-based technologies, and the increasing complexity of cyber threats have compelled organisations to re-evaluate their network security strategies....
Redvine, Dandemutande partner to harness SD-WAN growth in Zimbabwe
09 MARCH 2023 - Johannesburg and Harare - Redvine Networks, the fully managed secure SD-WAN and networking service provider and distributor, and leading Zimbabwean ICT solutionscompany, Dandemutande Investments (Pvt) Ltd, have recently partnered to implement a...
Redvine positions Africa for software-driven growth and innovation
07 February 2023, Johannesburg - Redvine Networks is accelerating the roll out of advanced technologies like VMware SD-WAN architecture across Africa to enable countries to meet their data residency requirements. By the start of 2023, the fully managed secure SD-WAN...
SASE vs SSE – what is the future of African business connectivity?
Wesley van Rayne and Morne Vermeulen, Redvine Networks While a handful of vendors will tell you that SSE (Secure Services Edge) is the way to go and that SASE(Secure Access Services Edge) will eventually disappear, it is not an all or nothing approach. Typically,these...
Embracing a software-driven world for competitive advantage
The current global semiconductor shortage reinforces the importance of organisations moving away from a reliance on purpose-built hardware and embracing a software-driven approach. While hardware will always have a place, it is increasingly becoming just...
The cornerstone of future-proofing a business
Redvine’s software-driven approach - the cornerstone of future-proofing a business There is no getting around the fact that the global semiconductor shortage is going to be with us for a while. This has caused chaos for companies who are still reliant on a...
Global Chip Shortage has no impact on us
Global chip shortage has no impact on Redvine, company continues to deliver on SD-WAN demand 31 May 2022, Johannesburg - Redvine Networks, a fully-managed SASE and cloud service provider, says it remains unaffected by the current global chip shortage which Intel...
Redvine Networks capitalises on African growth
12 April 2022, Johannesburg - Redvine Networks, a fully-managed secure SD-WAN and networking service provider and distributor, says that it has been able to consistently grow its customer base over the past five years while also enabling partners to leverage the...
Edge can reinvent business operations
By Morne Vermeulen, Senior Core Engineer at Redvine Networks The worldwide edge computing market is projected to top $250 billion by 2024, an 80% increase from the $139 billion of 2019. This reflects the growing importance of businesses accessing small form-factor...
SASE the key network security component for today’s businesses
By Wesley van Rayne, principal engineer at Redvine Networks Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), through its components provides organisations with a more secure way of onboarding devices to its corporate network, using a cloud-delivered environment. This makes it ideal...
The growing importance of SASE
By Binesh George, CEO of Redvine Networks Over the last few years, SD-WAN has established itself as a significant enabler of remote office, branch office capabilities, and while it remains relevant in today’s work-from-anywhere environment, it must be integrated with...
SD-WAN and SASE – a secure WFH platform
By Wesley van Rayne, Principal Engineer at Redvine Networks The ongoing pandemic and resultant lockdown have seen companies of all sizes and industry sectors being required to embrace work from home (WFH). However, it is not as straightforward as giving an employee a...
VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN transforms Bidfood infrastructure
As part of its strategy of migrating to a cloud environment and future-proofing operations, national food services distributor Bidfood has implemented VMware SD-WAN powered by VeloCloud and transformed its network infrastructure for high availability, scalability and performance.
Lancet Laboratories partner with Redvine
Lancet Laboratories, one of the leading pathology laboratories operating throughout Africa, is working with Redvine Networks to implement VeloCloud SD-WAN by Dell and VMWare at its largest sites across South Africa to provide complete network visibility and resilience for mission-critical services.
SD-WAN. Why bother?
Original article written by Redvine and published on MyBroadband, July 2020 A question we are often asked by our customers is, why was SD-WAN created, outside of the obvious benefits it brings to enterprises (cost efficiency; visibility; security and...
SD-WAN Mock RFI
Put SD-WAN vendors to the test You’ve studied, researched and learned a lot about SD-WAN. Now it is time to put the technology vendors to the test and find out how their SD-WAN solution will really solve your network challenges. Jim Metzler’s mock SD-WAN RFI (Request...
SDN: it’s an evolution revolution
Redvine principle engineer, Wesley van Rayne talks about the evolution of SDN and believes that it enables distributed network capability
What are the current barriers to digital transformation?
Binesh George, CEO of Redvine Networks unpacks the barriers to Digital Transformation and highlights ways in which CIOs can overcome these
REDUCE THE TCO OF YOUR WAN – LEVERAGE SD-WAN
Traditional WAN designs are expensive, complex, and lack cloud application performance. Software-Defined WAN is transforming traditional MPLS-based networks into architectures that deliver performance, simplicity, and optimal access to on-premise applications and cloud services.
SOFTWARE-DEFINED WIDE AREA NETWORKING (SD-WAN)
In the 90s, we had a surge in label switched shared wide-area technologies such as Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS). MPLS rocked the boat and actually succeeded over the existing wide-area-networking (WAN) technologies such as frame-relay and ATM. There is no...
SD-WAN, THE EVOLUTION OF MPLS
Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) is one of the most disruptive technologies to come to the fore and is impacting MPLS providers’ revenues. Many MPLS incumbents find themselves without an SD-WAN offering because they simply don’t have the ability to...
Not even remotely boring
Remote site and branch office connectivity solutions have undergone something of a technology revolution.
Redvine’s VMware SD-WAN by Velocloud architecture
The VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud features include high performance, high reliability, virtualisation of appliances, cloud integration, automation, and easy orchestration. VMware also emphasises that the product is effective at virtualising the infrastructure of an enterprise’s branch locations.