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SD-WAN for Food Retailers: An IT Decision Maker’s Guide

With food retails facing the task of not only optimising for perishable goods but also tackling the likes of PCI compliance and always-on store experiences, SD-WAN has become an essential network component.

Unified SASE: Why Single-Vendor Architectures Matter in 2026 and the Latest Insights From Fortinet & Gartner

The latest insights from Fortinet and Gartner reveal that rather than piecing together multiple vendors, businesses are now opting for unified SASE architectures to benefit from more aligned security processes, greater operational efficiency and improved cost performance.

How to Evaluate and Score SD-WAN and SASE Vendors for Retail Operations

Retail procurement teams evaluating SD-WAN and SASE vendor proposals face a fundamental challenge: inconsistent responses make fair comparison difficult without a standardised framework in place.

What to Include in an SD-WAN and SASE RFP for Retail (Enterprise and Mid-Market Considerations)

Retail SD-WAN and SASE RFPs require sector-specific requirements. Structured procurement processes ensure vendors respond to comparable criteria rather than submitting proposals lead by marketing that obscure capability gaps.

Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) in Retail: Rolling Out Hundreds of Stores Without Engineers

Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) fundamentally changes traditional deployment models by eliminating the requirement for technical staff at each location. Retailers can ship SD-WAN appliances directly to store managers who have no networking expertise.

Beyond Failover: Why Retailers Need "Active-Active" SD-WAN (Not Just 4G Backup)

When internet connectivity fails at a retail location, the impact can be catastrophic – in stores during peak hours, a five minute outage can result in abandoned trolleys and lost sales.

Retail SD-WAN & PCI DSS: A Technical Guide to Reducing Audit Scope via Segmentation

Traditional flat network architectures leave every device "in scope" for audit, creating compliance headaches and exposing payment data to lateral movement attacks. Find out how SD-WAN fixes that.

Leveraging SASE to Detect Lateral Movement and Insider Threats

Businesses that utilise hybrid networks often have blind spots where lateral movement and insider threats can go undetected. However, through SASE’s unification of networking and security, these businesses can enforce identity-driven access control.

SD-WAN RFP Template: Complete Guide and Copy - Paste Example

This guide provides an SD-WAN RFP template that you can adapt for your business' needs, alongside a deeper framework based on Netify's own 20 pillar SD-WAN and SASE RFP framework. This template not only helps you ask the right questions but guides you on how to compare vendors.

The 20 SASE RFP Questions That Vendors Hate in 2025 (And Why They're Actually Really Important)

For businesses creating a SASE RFP in 2025 (and beyond) there’s often a common issue - vendors use the same buzzwords and marketing phrases to suggest they can offer every capability just as or if not better than the next solution. Whilst there’s no doubt that some are