Case Study: Humble Monkey achieves resilient, secure, lightning-fast connectivity for financial clients with VMware SD-WAN

IT Firm Humble Monkey Sees Billion-Dollar Results with VMware SD-Access

Humble Monkey is a boutique New York IT firm that helps financial services clients with infrastructure design, advisory services and disaster recovery. The company needed to deliver ultra‑low‑latency, highly available and compliant connectivity for a hedge fund client that manages billions of dollars—supporting 40 employees across four locations, 120+ endpoints, and a stretch cluster between New York and Pennsylvania—where any outage or latency could materially affect trading and compliance.

Humble Monkey implemented VMware SD‑WAN and VMware SD‑Access to provide seamless site‑to‑site and remote access, integrating with the existing 10Gb stretch cluster and a redundancy mix of dual fiber lines, Starlink backup and battery power. The deployment delivered transparent, low‑latency connectivity, stronger endpoint security (including pre‑MFA checks), a 100% satisfaction rating for SD‑WAN, and led to two new client signups with future installs expected to take hours to under a week.

Humble Monkey

Gordon Gabbay

Managing Member