Is networking infrastructure the Achilles’ heel of cloud computing?
February 18, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Greg Ferro.
Regardless of whether you choose Software as a Service, Platform as a Service or Infrastructure as a Service, one thing is unavoidable: You need a good, reliable network to connect to the cloud. The network can easily become a stumbling block, since the cloud drastically alters the role of the network — and its accompanying hardware and software.
The real Achilles’ heel of cloud computing is that many in IT fail to consider the deeper challenges of building a reliable network and only unearth network problems after a migration has been completed. The success of a public cloud initiative is critically dependent on networking infrastructure, and it’s no surprise that IT managers have their share of concerns. How much bandwidth will you need?…
Will the network be sufficiently reliable for what you have planned? What kind of network will you require for the next five years? These are just some of the questions that a typical company needs to answer when moving to the cloud, particularly to Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS)…
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