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that may be a benefit to us that we haven ' t considered ,” he adds . “ One of the things that you see in a partnership is that when you have that proactive interaction , it ’ s not just about looking to make money off of you , but looking to find ways to help you grow and scale your business in a more cost-effective , efficient manner .”
As Lloyd describes , OpenText ’ s partnership with Palo Alto Networks is one of the key underpinnings for the organisation ’ s next-generation network implementation . Using a range of Palo Alto ’ s solutions is enabling OpenText to grow without compromising security .
“ We ' re using Palo Alto ’ s Prisma SD-WAN and Prisma Secure Access , Secure Edge ( SASE ) solutions to really allow us to have a zero-trust environment to access all of our systems , applications and networks , globally , with minimum latency and maximum security capabilities ,” he comments .
“ It really is a seamless end-to-end , 24 / 7 managed , operated , and then triage and support solution around our global fully redundant SD-WAN that we ' re implementing ,” Lloyd adds . “ We use their firewalls , we ' re using their Prisma solution , and that is a technology stack that allows us to really scale this business and grow very rapidly as we continue to acquire companies because of the ease of integration and for us to be able to scale it because of its cloud nature .”
Moving to the cloud has clear benefits for many organisations , with improved flexibility and scalability . However , as Lloyd explains , it ’ s critical for organisations moving their businesses into the cloud to go into the process with their eyes open .
“ Everybody is really focused on understanding the benefits of the cloud . There ’ s sales speak , and then there ' s reality . I think that folks are realising that
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