As organizations transition business applications from on-premise data centers to one or multiple public clouds, networking becomes a challenge. While compute and storage have long inherited cloud attributes and become available for as-a-service consumption, network has not.
In this whitepaper from Alkira CTO Atif Khan, learn how to design and deploy a global multi-cloud network without the need to procure any additional hardware or download any software, provision costly colocation cloud interconnects or perform tedious configuration tasks.
As organizations increasingly transition their workloads and business applications from on-premise data centers to one or multiple public clouds and take advantage of SaaS offerings, networking becomes a challenge. While compute and storage have long inherited cloud attributes and have evolved to become available for as-a-service consumption, networking has not. It is time for the network to evolve. It is time for the network to be reinvented for cloud with the following key attributes:
- Delivered as-a-service with easy point and click consumption and no need for cloud specific network expertise
- On demand with ubiquitous ability to be deployed when, where and for as long as needed
- Global and multi-cloud connecting on-premise locations to public clouds and SaaS applications, as well as interconnecting multiple public cloud regions or multiple public clouds together
- Secure with integrated security and network services and ability to seamlessly insert these services into the desired application flows and provide full operational life-cycle management
- Elastically scalable with ability to accommodate real-time growing or shrinking demands for network and network services capacity
- Highly available with SLAs to accelerate transition of business-critical applications to the cloud
- Transparent with full visibility, monitoring and comprehensive day-2 operations
- Cost effective with zero upfront investments, pay only for what you use, and only for as long as you use it
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