Why network connectivity is key to successfully running your modern multicloud
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Fri, 08/06/2021 - 13:13
Most businesses are now using multiple clouds, across a variety of flavors: SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, public and private, as well as legacy on-premises infrastructure. But few of them arrived in that situation by design. They didnt set out to have such a mixture, but business needs drove them into it.
Despite the hyperscalers efforts to help these businesses out of that morass and onto their platforms, most businesses dont want to put all their eggs in one basket. Or theyve determined that certain applications need to head in one cloud direction, whilst others go in another.
So hybrid multicloud is most likely the ongoing future for businesses today, as well as the need to optimize it all. And thats where network connectivity comes into play.
The current state of enterprise private networks
The enterprise private network has long been the backbone of many large businesses. For 40+ years, it has provided the glue that binds an organizations distributed, global operations together evolving as new technologies come to market.
In the 2000s, when the focus shifted to virtualization and the cloud, private networks appeared to lose their importance. But underneath it all, those networks never went away. A lot of businesses still rely on expensive Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) circuits from both local and international service providers to bind their major operations together. For example, they may VPN over the standard Internet to hook up smaller remote offices.
But such arrangements can inhibit business agility. They involve dealing with multiple vendors and telco-type operators some to provision the last mile into a remote office, and some to link corporate HQ with regional HQs in other parts of the world. They also involve managing a variety of different contracts, each with its own variable costs and SLAs, as well as a range of distinct technologies, each with its own set of tools, to deliver a desired end-to-end performance.
A better way
With cloud cross-connect services from providers like Equinix or Megaport and last-mile services from Unitas Global, you can simplify your network connection complexities.
Following the model of the Internet Exchanges, these types of service providers have interconnected facilities throughout the world. And they resell arbitraged capacity across their backbones in the form of virtual private circuits.
Then, through RackConnect Global, you can get a point-and-click, self-service private network that connects your locations and most importantly the hyperscale cloud providers. This gives you multicloud connectivity that unifies your entire hybrid environment.
As a result, you can:
Reduce the number of wide-area-network vendors you have to negotiate with
Reduce your resource requirements to manage all the different connections
Get point-and-click configuration flexibility
Reduce the costs of connecting into the hyperscalers, with blended arbitraged costs across the network
Remove your reliance on the Internet for connectivity, thereby enhancing security and availability
Learn more about how RackConnect Global makes it possible to securely connect your locations and clouds.
Why network connectivity is key to successfully running your modern multicloudMany businesses still rely on private networks to connect their locations and data centers. But the complexity involved can stifle business agility. Heres a better way to connect your locations and clouds, without the burdens. Unify your multicloud environments/cloud-connectivity/rackconnect/globalLearn how
Cloud InsightsMichael LevyWhy network connectivity is key to successfully running your modern multicloudAugust 6, 2021
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