An increasing number of enterprises are migrating to multi-cloud environments, adopting a cloud infrastructure that includes a hybrid mix of public, private and edge can quickly become quite complex. But ensuring they are built on a foundation of consistency can position them for success and help them harness the power of multi-cloud, without the complexity.
As more and more employees work remotely, organisations have to overcome the challenges of a more distributed workforce, such as an increase in the number of environments to manage and more apps, data, devices and users to connect and secure. It’s imperative that networks are set up for the future and are not holding organisations back.
The most innovative organisations have mastered control of the cloud to scale resources, adopt a modern application architecture and benefit from more efficient IT operations. Innovation and network consistency are key for successful migration to multi-cloud, organisations need to rethink how they connect, secure and operate multiple clouds in order to innovate across clouds.
Many IT teams are faced with complexity across diverse networking and security feature sets, implementation constructs, APIs and scale limitations that vary across clouds. This results in them spending more time on operations and leaves little time for innovation.
But by simplifying with unified and consistent infrastructure and operations across private and public clouds and the edge they can reduce the time spent on operations, freeing up more time for innovation.
Taking multiple management approaches
Network complexity is at the core of many of the challenges of a multi-cloud approach, these challenges include:
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- Operational inconsistency across diverse clouds
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- Disparate management tools
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- Lack of visibility to costs and resources
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- Inconsistent security and governance
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- Different skillsets needed
To overcome these challenges organisations must consider taking multiple management approaches to drive and ensure multi-cloud success. Taking this approach can help organisations migrate to the cloud at minimal cost and risk and enables seamless operations across multiple clouds with existing tools, policies and skills.
It can also help them scale to the cloud as they need to only pay for what is needed while enabling self-service architecture and facilitating the delivery of modern apps built on Kubernetes.
How could VMware NSX help?
MTI partner, VMware have a range of virtual cloud networking solutions to provide a software layer from the data center to cloud to the edge infrastructure to ensure secure, consistent foundations that make cloud operations simpler and operations across multiple clouds more consistent.
VMware NSX can help organisations gain the freedom to innovate across clouds and ensure they are future ready:
Software-based
Leverage a complete networking and security virtualisation platform that is infrastructure agnostic and software-defined for programmability, agility and scalability.
End-to-end fabric
Build a next-generation, policy-driven network that connects, secures and automates traditional and containerised apps wherever they live, from the data center to the cloud to the edge.
Intrinsic Security
Embed application and data-centric security controls into the infrastructure, for consistent security wherever applications are running and will be run.
VMware NSX helps organisations simplify their hybrid and multi-cloud operations, secure clouds with a common approach, unifies visibility and managements across the cloud environment to ensure consistent operations and enables organisations to automate for faster time to market.
Next Steps
Looking to overcome network challenges? Security vulnerabilities caused by legacy networks, network downtime and high physical network purchasing and maintenance costs are challenges today’s digitally connected organisations need to overcome in order to provide sophisticated security, agility and collaboration.
As a fully accredited VMware Master Services Competency Partner, our experts at MTI can help organisations gain clear visibility and interpretation of their network traffic flows, security shortcomings and improvement opportunities.
Book a free security assessment of your VMware virtual networking environment to gain an in-depth insight into your virtual network and discover how VMware NSX can help you plan a Micro-Segmentation deployment and achieve audit security compliances.