Graham Schultz – Director Australia & NZNathan Macgregor – Head of IT Infrastructure Minter Ellison
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ENABLING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AND IMPROVING USER EXPERIENCE IN A CLOUD FIRST WORLD
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2018 GARTNER MAGIC QUADRANT
• Silver Peak Named a Leader
• Global, 100+ Countries, 1000+ SD-WAN‘s
• Focused
• According to Gartner:• The market for branch office wide-area network
functionality is shifting from dedicated routing, security and WAN optimization appliances to feature-rich SD-WAN and vCPE platforms. WAN edge infrastructure now incorporates a widening set of network functions, including secure routers, firewalls, SD-WAN, WAN path control and WAN optimization, along with traditional routing functionality.
WAN Edge Infrastructure
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WHY FORWARD-THINKING EXECUTIVES CHOOSE SILVER PEAKthe key differentiators
BUSINESS
DRIVEN
(Policy, Top Down, Application-driven)
CONTINUOUS
ADAPTATION
(Automation, MachineLearning)
UNIFIED
PLATFORM
(Router, Firewall, WAN Op, single pane of glass)
HIGHEST
QUALITY OF
EXPERIENCE(Dynamic Path Control, Path Conditioning and
WAN Opt)
Enabling Digital Transformation & Improving User Experience in a Cloud First World
Graham SchultzDirector ANZ at Silver Peak
––
Nathan MacgregorHead of IT Infrastructure at MinterEllison
September 2019
The MinterEllison story
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established 1827
GLOBALLYA LARGE & DIVERSE
CLIENT BASE
Blue chip public &
private companies
Government
(local, state &
federal)
Leading
multinationals
State owned
entities
Global financial
institutions
Modernising and
digitising a 200-
year-old Firm
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Cloud
First
Improved
Agility
Alignment to
Business
Improved
Efficiency
Reduced
Complexity
Resilience
Costs
Enhanced
User
Experience
Digital Transformation
Business Drivers
Traditional Architecture
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▪ Based on MPLS
▪ Mix of Layer 2 & 3 networks
▪ Traffic Engineering
▪ Managing Quality of Service
▪ Costly in effort and risk to change
▪ Highly skilled resources (CLI)
▪ Aging routers / wan opt
▪ Dormant backup links
▪ Backhauling of internet traffic
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“Provision of a new software defined
network that will support the
increasing demands of interoffice
communications and the increased
adoption of cloud services.”
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1. Replace EOL network equipment
2. Better accessibility to cloud providers i.e. AWS | Azure
3. Redundancy for International Offices
4. Better Performance
5. Better User Experience
Short Term
1. Decommission Secondary DC
2. Migration to DR as a Service (DRaaS)
3. Remove backup dormant MPLS network
4. Reduce dependency on network optimisation
Long Term
Journey to SDWAN
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Visibility
Control
Analytics
Management
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Business First
Policy based
Solution
Integrated
Solution
Market
Research
Security
Integration
Follow the Sun
Support Teams
Planning and Deployment – Phase 1 - Australia
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2
3
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Plan | Design with SilverPeak
Lab testing with SilverPeak & ICT Networks
Limited Outage window
Local Resources at branch office
Cutover – extensive performance & failover testing
UAT – application testing
SilverPeak, first business day support
Planning and Deployment – Phase 2 - International
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1
2
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Same approach as for Australian offices
Logistics for resourcing & hardware
Limited Outage window
4 Language and Cultural challenges
Benefits
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▪ Digital transformation with cloud first initiative
▪ Agility the ability to make policy
▪ Alignment to Business
▪ Efficiency
▪ Reduction in Complexity
▪ Resilience
▪ Commercially
▪ Continuous improvement
Lessons Learned
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▪ Ensure thorough testing completed
▪ Logistics challenges with shipping internationally
▪ Invest in certified training
▪ Setting expectations with business on scale of change