But Your Tools Should.

Enterprise networks have evolved fast—and not always in sync with the tools supporting them. Hybrid work, cloud migration, SaaS sprawl, and globally distributed teams have made the traditional perimeter obsolete. The result? Security gaps, tool overload, and mounting operational pressure.

If you’re spending more time maintaining infrastructure than moving the business forward, you’re not alone. Many enterprise IT teams are being asked to do more—with fewer resources, tighter budgets, and growing risk. The more fragmented the environment, the harder it is to gain visibility, enforce security policies, and scale with confidence.

Enterprises are shifting to Network as a Service (NaaS)—a model that replaces fragmented tools with a streamlined, scalable approach to connectivity and security.

NaaS-Simplifying Operations for Secure Cloud Networking, hosted by Joan Goodchild of CIO Magazine, explores how Network as a Service (NaaS) is helping enterprises rethink their network strategy to meet today’s evolving demands—balancing scalability, performance, and protection.

Together, GTT and Fortinet uncover how NaaS addresses real-world challenges by unifying connectivity and security across data center, cloud, and edge environments. You’ll learn how GTT and Fortinet are working together to help IT teams cut through complexity, strengthen their defenses, and gain more value from existing resources.

At the core of the solution is GTT Secure Connect, which integrates Fortinet’s SSE capabilities with GTT’s global Tier 1 IP backbone for a single vendor SASE solution. The result is secure, high-performance connectivity and protection for applications across any cloud or location.

You’ll hear from:

• Darren Wolner, VP, Product Management, GTT
• Steven Watkins, Sr. Director, Offer Development, Fortinet

In this session, they’ll explore:

• How GTT Secure Connect delivers unified visibility and smarter control across distributed environments
• Why adopting a single-vendor SASE model simplifies both operations and security
• How SD-WAN and SSE capabilities work together to eliminate point solutions
• How enterprises are scaling faster using virtualization, automation, and built-in AI

These insights are grounded in real-world examples from global enterprises using GTT Secure Connect to:

• Expand securely into new regions
• Meet compliance mandates without slowing operations
• Automate troubleshooting and reduce time to resolution

Whether you’re reevaluating your vendor stack, planning your next upgrade, or dealing with inconsistent policy enforcement, this webcast gives you the clarity to move forward.

What You’ll Learn

• Why unified security and end-to-end visibility are essential for distributed architectures
• How today’s complexity—from hybrid work to cloud migration—demands a shift in network security strategy
• How GTT’s Envision Platform, that include GTT EnvisionCORE, GTT EnvisionEDGE, and GTT EnvisionDX enable scalable, on-demand NaaS delivery across cloud and edge environments
• How Secure Connect helps enterprises meet evolving security and performance demands

Watch the webinar and see how enterprise IT leaders are solving for complexity with a flexible, scalable approach to network and security transformation.

In this 30-minute webinar, subject matter experts from GTT and Hanover Research will discuss the evolution and trends of the adoption of SD-WAN for the distributed enterprise and explain how SD-WAN priorities have shifted from initial deployment goals to current needs, reflecting the technology’s maturation and broader availability.

Among the discussion topic are current vs. forward-looking trends, including network and service priorities, the integration of network and security teams, and what original SD-WAN deployment priorities were versus what Enterprises now look for as SD-WAN has matured and is now readily available from a large selection of vendors.

In this webinar you will learn what is relevant to the adopters of Managed SD-WAN from a global perspective and how decision makers arrive at the solution that is relevant to the specific needs of their enterprise. Discover how and why a hybrid workforce, ubiquitous adoption of the public internet and hybrid cloud have affected decision making and adoption of SD-WAN. The speakers will reveal the importance of critical layers beneath the SD-WAN layer and their roles in ensuring a robust and efficient network.

Early adopters of Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) are evolving their strategies as the technology matures. Initially, SD-WAN promised to revolutionize network management by offering improved performance, cost savings, and simplified operations. While it has delivered on several of these promises, such as enhancing network agility and reducing dependency on expensive MPLS circuits, it has also fallen short in some areas. For instance, the complexity of managing multiple vendors and integrating SD-WAN with existing infrastructure has proven more challenging than anticipated.

Moreover, as the technology landscape evolves, the need for expert support has not diminished; in fact, it has grown. The proliferation of SD-WAN vendors has expanded the selection pool, making it harder for organizations to choose the right solution tailored to their specific needs. This expansion also increases the attack surface, as more endpoints and connections need to be secured. Additionally, the rise in the number of globally distributed locations adds another layer of complexity, requiring robust and scalable solutions to ensure consistent performance and security across all sites.

As a result, organizations are increasingly relying on specialized expertise to navigate these challenges, ensuring they can fully leverage the benefits of SD-WAN while mitigating its shortcomings.

The speakers – James Wilcox, Managing Director of Hanover Research and Jonathan Tinner, Product Management Director at GTT will share the research findings, and their interpretation of those findings. the direction of the industry and how future implementation of SD-WAN may change as advanced networks make installations increasingly complex – particularly for global enterprises with distributed locations across two or more continents.

Listeners will learn the most important questions to ask, how to deal with local language support for maximum efficiency and, in the rare event of an outage, reducing downtime.

The webinar will address:

• How adopters are integrating security with SD-WAN and why
  Where are there knowledge gaps and how to fill them
• The changes in priorities as SD-WAN evolves
• The interest in moving to, or increasing the involvement of managed service providers.

At the conclusion of the presentation a Q&A follows to answer questions posed by the audience that relate to the content of the presentation such as what the future of SD-WAN looks like – is it fading in favor of other solutions or continuing to grow? What is the typical lifespan of network deployment and how often should the security and IT teams evaluate the SD-WAN installation for upgrade, enhancement or replacement?

The speakers will address these questions and dozens of others in “Unlocking the potential – Understand the adoption of managed SD-WAN”.

Elevate your market position and distinguish yourself from the competitors when you offer solutions from GTT. The GTT Envision platform stands out as a transformative approach to network as a service with one global platform, one networking experience and one strategic partner. With GTT Envision, we’re offering global scale and reach – with all the friction removed.

Joan Logan, President of GTT America along with Rich Vidil, Vice President of Channel Technology Strategy at GTT present GTT Envision, in this exciting webinar created exclusively for Channel Partners and third-party sellers. When you hear the webinar, you discover how GTT ENVISION can be used to maximize your success. The webinar offers valuable insight into how to help streamline operations and transform digital experience. Our goal is to work with you to solve your business and IT challenges, and to remove the burden of managing your infrastructure so you can focus on what is core to running your business.

GTT Envision is not a product, service or solution – but one global platform on which sits the services, solutions, connectivity and people that will help mover your business forward.

GTT Envision is made up of three integral components—EDGE, CORE and DX—GTT Envision is the platform on which a comprehensive suite of tools and services work together seamlessly to optimize network performance and enhance security.

GTT EnvisionCORE centralizes network capabilities and is poised to scale and evolve with changing applications and computing needs. Embedded within the backbone infrastructure, this is a distributed compute platform embedded across six continents, where we can virtualize core services such as your SD-WAN gateways and cloud security nodes, we also allow customers to deploy their own workloads on our globally distributed compute infrastructure. We ensure one unified routing policy across this single, central IP network. This enables us to automate everything across one control plane, move faster, assure more, and show you more across our network.

GTT EnvisionDX is an innovative solution that caters to the evolving needs of your customers to watch and manage their accounts and network through a single gateway, presenting a strong value proposition and securing a competitive edge. From an experience perspective, GTT EnvisionDX is the single digital gateway to a better networking experience. It offers visibility management on demand with customization of our customers’ entire portfolio in a single view.

GTT EnvisionEDGE focuses on delivering secure and optimized network edges. A single box sits on-premise and easily adapts to changing network conditions that are essential for faster and more reliable access to critical applications, enhancing user experience and satisfaction. You can complement these functions with GTT EnvisionEDGE managed devices on premises, where we can deploy the most advanced SD-WAN technologies to get the best from the access available at your site. In future, we will allow customers to deploy and manage their code on GTT EnvisionEDGE devices, enabling managed compute infrastructure at your edge. To connect to your cloud and third-party business partners, we offer direct connectivity to leading cloud providers and SaaS applications. You’ll also find us present in around 500 data centers worldwide.

Spend some time listening to this important webinar and contact GTT or your GTT representative who will be happy to answer any of questions and help accelerate greater technology together.