Management Complexity In The Multi-cloud
March 17, 2016
Grazed from TechWeekEurope. Author: Ben Sullivan.
Organisations are turning to the public, hybrid and multi-cloud to accelerate digital transformation. A 2015 Oxford Economics Survey entitled ‘The Cloud Grows Up’ shows that 69 percent of global business leader and IT executive respondents planned to make moderate to heavy cloud investments over the next three years; not only to save money, but to enter new markets and develop new products, services, lines of business and business models fast.
But one of the biggest challenges of hybrid and multi-clouds is achieving visibility, performance and management across the entire complex estate. You can wrestle with multiple cloud-provided tools and instrumentation, but that can be time consuming and frustrating. However, there is a surprisingly simple path to holistic visibility; the application delivery infrastructure…
Chances are, if you’re deploying Web and other applications across the hybrid or multi-cloud you’re leveraging application delivery solutions to maintain application performance as workloads grow and shrink over time. And the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) has evolved to deliver a number of other important network functions as well, including authentication, SSL termination and application level firewalls…
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