Businesses are drawn to VPN services, says report

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: TIM GREENE ON VPNS
08/11/05
Today's focus: Businesses are drawn to VPN services, says
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Today's focus: Businesses are drawn to VPN services, says
report

By Tim Greene

Apparently, many businesses interested in VPNs are also
interested in offloading the work involved in setting them up,
monitoring and maintaining them.

This is fueled by the complexity of deploying VPNs, which pushes
businesses without enough IT staffing to handle in-house VPNs to
seek VPN services instead, according to a recently released
Infonetics Research report entitled "VPN and Security Services."

Businesses are also drawn to VPN services because they can be
less expensive than alternative WAN technology and because they
can boost productivity by giving workers access to network
resources from more locations, the report says.

Worldwide, businesses will spend $29.8 billion on VPN services
in 2009, the report projects, which is about 10 times as much as
businesses will spend on VPN gear needed to set up their own
VPNs, Infonetics says.

This speaks to the amount of work it takes for a business to set
up a VPN, which translates into significant costs. While
customers seem convinced that VPNs are an important means of
networking, they are also apparently daunted by the investment
of time and money it takes to run them in-house.

This may also help explain the continuing popularity of frame
relay, which can be used as an alternative to site-to-site VPNs
and which is well understood and accepted by businesses. They
can continue using it without retraining staff.

The Infonetics report breaks down the services into the
technology used, whether the VPN is used for internal networking
or connecting to business partners and whether it is used for
remote access or connecting corporate sites. It also breaks down
the data by the size of the business and by global regions. For
more information check out
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