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The MEF Technology Advisory Board sat on a panel in July to talk through the confusion surrounding the secure access service edge (SASE) and SD-WAN markets. As part of the 2022 MEF Members Meeting, the panel discussed how MEF service standards can help provide common language and expectations to help speed up market growth. “Everyone’s trying to jump on the hype cycle of SASE,” said VMWare’s general manager of SASE business, Craig Connors, in part due to emerging work-fromhome use cases coupled with the rise of connected IoT devices and modernized applications distributing across networks. “You have all sorts of different companies saying that they have a SASE solution when they’re missing this piece, or this piece, or this piece. And that just further leads to the confusion in the market.” Gartner only added to the confusion with its latest term and acronym: security service edge or SSE. “Every customer I speak to has a different opinion of what SASE is,” Fortinet chief marketing officer John Maddison added. “It started with 30 different things, and now it’s down to five.” Maddison admitted he sees SASE as a “buzz term” that unfortunately, everyone doesn’t quite understand. Despite the chaos around what SASE and SSE parameters are exactly, the panel agreed that the convergence of networking and security is now critical. Pax8 and global technology financial platform Intuit have announced the access of QuickBooks Online to channel partners through the Pax8 cloud marketplace, giving partners in North America access to the suite of financial management tools and cloudbased accounting software. “Our partners have been asking us to add QuickBooks to our suite of technology solutions, and we are thrilled to offer their gold standard of cloud financial solutions,” said Pax8 chief operating officer James Rossell. QuickBooks Online provides the flexibility to review and update financial data anywhere, supporting synchronous and asynchronous collaboration among remote and dispersed teams. The platform includes integrated tools to track income and expenses, invoices, payments, sales and sales tax, inventory and more. SASE Standardization Critical, Says MEF Pax8 Adds QuickBooks to Marketplace 67 JULY - AUGUST 2022 | CHANNELV ISION

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