How to optimise hybrid cloud by extending the enterprise WAN to IaaS
September 22, 2014
Grazed from CSO. Author: Brian Grant.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) in the enterprise is expected to grow at a rate of 37.3 per cent through to 2017, and is the fastest growing segment of the infrastructure service domain, according to Gartner 1and 2. The trend is supported by ESG’s 2014 Public Cloud Computing Trends report, which discloses that 47 per cent) of organisations with more than 500 production servers are already using infrastructure-as-a-service, compared to 23 per cent of those with fewer than 50 production servers.
So for larger enterprises, IaaS is no longer limited to ‘skunkworks’ proofs-of-concept (POCs). Hard contractual obligations, balance sheet objectives and increased complexity in hosting critical applications are driving IT to scale some processes off corporate premises towards a hybrid cloud model…
As IT managers accelerate the pace of moving workloads into the cloud, IaaS providers are accelerating innovation in the areas of vendor support and cloud networking capabilities, both to maintain pace and to push differentiation. Traffic growth within the hybrid cloud model is scaling at a rate that is forcing a new look at legacy wide area network (WAN) connectivity, including visibility, control and performance. The big question is, ‘How’s my WAN holding up?’…
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