In our own research with end users, they are looking for ways to combine security and networking for the sake of convenience, efficacy, and cost. Return on investment (ROI) is a major consideration. If you can combine the cost of both networking and security, it’s a win-win. We recently affirmed this in a Leadership Brief project with Aviatrix demonstrating how end users can save money by combining distributed cloud networking with to cut down on the high compute costs of cloud firewalls and network address translation (NAT).