In today's world, work is no longer confined to the traditional office. Your teams need secure, reliable access to applications wherever they are – office, branch or remote. Consistent security and optimal performance aren't just "nice-to-haves"; they're business imperatives. That's where Prisma SASE, Palo Alto Networks cloud-delivered secure access service edge (SASE) platform, comes in. Prisma SASE delivers a consistent security posture for all users, regardless of location, securing access to SaaS, private cloud apps and data center resources.

We're excited to announce a significant leap forward in our global reach through our collaboration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The expanded cloud presence with OCI extends to six new locations—Oracle Cloud Hyderabad region, Oracle Cloud Marseille region, Oracle Cloud Chicago region, Oracle Cloud Monterrey region, Oracle Cloud Phoenix region and Oracle Cloud Jeddah region—bringing our already extensive network to 152 points of presence worldwide.

"Our long-standing collaboration with Palo Alto Networks continues to help organizations across the world securely accelerate their cloud journey. By leveraging additional OCI regions to run Prisma SASE globally, Palo Alto Networks can provide its customers with operational resiliency, high performance and an exceptional user experience. In addition, Prisma SASE helps our customers protect their OCI environments against emerging and sophisticated cyberthreats.”

- Karan Batta, Senior Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

The Multicloud Advantage: Why It Matters for Your Business

Why is a multicloud architecture so critical for secure and reliable business continuity? The reality is that SASE solutions tied to colocation facilities or a single cloud provider introduce significant vulnerabilities.

• Single Point of Failure? Not with Prisma Access. Solutions that rely on a single data center or local ISP are inherently fragile. An outage in either can cripple services and hinder your ability to adapt to regional disruptions. Failover might be an option, but distance equals latency, and in today's fast-paced environment, that's simply unacceptable. Prisma SASE is engineered differently. Our multicloud architecture eliminates single points of failure. Prisma SASE intelligently switches user traffic to a different security processing node (SPN) on another cloud provider within the same geographical region.
• Scalability Without Limits. Some SASE vendors market a collection of owned or colocated data centers as "clouds." This creates silos. Customers are often locked into a specific "cloud," and scaling means adding resources within those data centers or even building entirely new ones. This rigid approach makes it difficult to scale quickly and efficiently. Prisma SASE breaks free from these limitations. By leveraging the hyperscale infrastructure of AWS, GCP and OCI, we provide the agility to scale on-demand, ensuring consistent performance even during peak periods.
• Performance You Can Count On. Some SASE vendors use a multitenant dataplane to maximize resource utilization, where multiple customers share the same infrastructure. This can lead to the "noisy neighbor" effect – a sudden traffic surge from one customer degrades performance for others. Prisma Access is different. Our Security Processing Nodes (SPNs) are dedicated to each tenant, with dedicated compute and network resources. This ensures consistent, predictable performance for your users.
• OCI: A Collaboration for Excellence. Our collaboration with OCI reinforces our shared commitment to availability, capacity and security. OCI's focus on these areas aligns perfectly with our design principles. Its global network, built for high availability, provides a robust backbone for secure and reliable data transfer, broadens the global reach of Prisma SASE, and strengthens our ability to deliver cloud resiliency and industry-leading uptime.

Prisma SASE: Engineered for Resilience and Performance

Prisma SASE is built from the ground up to deliver:

• Unmatched Resilience: Our multicloud architecture and hot-standby SPN pairs in multiple availability zones to deliver 99.999% uptime availability with less than 26 seconds of downtime per month.
• Low Latency Access: Prisma Access brings applications closer to users, ensuring a superior experience with minimal latency. Users connect to the nearest gateway, leveraging a high-speed cloud backbone. Our SLA guarantees security processing latency of less than 10ms worldwide.
• High Performance: Dedicated SPNs for each customer, with dedicated compute and network resources, ensure consistent and predictable security processing. These SPNs automatically scale to meet demand.
• Superior Network Connectivity: Prisma Access leverages the robust networks of hyperscale cloud providers, including their own fiber optic infrastructure and direct peering agreements with major SaaS and IaaS providers. This ensures fast, reliable application access, bypassing the congestion of the public internet.

Secure and Reliable Access Everywhere with Prisma SASE

Prisma SASE’s multicloud architecture, dedicated data planes, and expanded global presence provide a superior SASE solution that guarantees secure and reliable access for your users, wherever they are.

Check out our latest release notes to learn more about Prisma Access availability in our new cities. Contact your sales representative to try out Prisma Access today and experience the difference.