Business challenges and pain points: Tailscale patterns from the field

Chris Chang, Director of New Business Sales at Tailscale, shares insights from his experience with customers, highlighting common business challenges that lead to the adoption of Tailscale's VPN alternative. The blog post discusses typical pain points such as user dissatisfaction with legacy VPNs, compliance audits, business scaling, cloud or data center migrations, and new product launches. Tailscale addresses these issues by offering simplified connectivity, enhanced security measures, and infrastructure-agnostic solutions that integrate with existing identity providers and support various computing environments, including VMs, containers, and serverless architectures. The company boasts significant improvements for customers, such as reduced helpdesk tickets and faster setup times, providing a seamless user experience through features like NAT traversal and device approvals. As part of a two-part series, this article encourages readers to explore Tailscale's capabilities further and consider a trial to experience its potential benefits firsthand.