EfficientIP for Hybrid Multicloud

As organizations accelerate their cloud adoption, there is a real shift towards hybrid multicloud approach. But its value is being hindered by fragmented management with siloed data, time-consuming error-prone processes, and security and compliance risks.

To succeed, cloud environments must be tightly integrated with a unified DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) solution. EfficientIP’s DDI platform provides the foundational visibility, automation, security, and control needed to simplify and secure application delivery across diverse environments. This approach helps navigate the complexity of hybrid cloud to maximize efficiency, resilience, and long-term value.

Solution Benefits

• ENHANCED VISIBILITY: comprehensive, rich, and actionable asset inventory and discovery
• SIMPLIFIED NETWORK MANAGEMENT: single viewpoint control over DNS, DHCP, and IPAM
• OPERATIONAL TIME SAVINGS: automation of workflows and processes
• COST SAVINGS: uptime optimization of cloud resources
• FASTER DEPLOYMENT OF APPS/SERVICES: orchestration of IP management
• STRENGTHENED SECURITY: automated policy enforcement across entire infrastructure
• IMPROVED UX AND RESILIENCY: optimized application traffic routing

Business Challenges

As the foundation of digital transformation, cloud has changed how IT is architected, delivered, and operated. But with this shift comes complexity. Enterprises are struggling with varied cloud APIs, data silos, millions of access points and skills shortages causing network configuration issues and loss of control.

EMA discovered the following challenges: fragmented management across platforms, a lack of centralized control over IPAM and DNS, insufficient automation that slows down network changes, and increased compliance and security risks due to a lack of unified visibility and an inability to implement consistent security policies across different cloud providers.

Infrastructure sprawling across on and off-premises creates limited visibility into virtual networks or IP addresses, and prevents IT teams having a unified view to manage IP resources effectively. Heavier cloud workloads cause bandwidth, latency, and application performance/availability to immediately become hurdles if IP addresses and DNS names are not assigned and managed correctly (IP overlapping, routing issues…). This impacts internal UX on enterprise private cloud services and prevents reliable, timely delivery of applications and services worldwide. Network security also becomes an issue as soon as workloads in the cloud move beyond just website hosting.

Networks continuously evolve, so cloud orchestration becomes critical for operational efficiency. The IP network is foundational and critical in ensuring all components of software-defined infrastructures deploy, run and retire correctly. Excluding IPAM components while orchestrating IT services can make orchestration processes error-prone and time-consuming and ultimately limit the benefits of SDN, which are a springboard for cloud adoption. The IP management process should therefore occur at the foundational level of the application orchestration workflow.

Key Takeaways

Managing hybrid multicloud infrastructures, maintaining regulatory compliance, protecting from newer network security threats, and controlling heterogeneous environments are very complex tasks. A cloud-agnostic DDI solution, offering easy integration and centralized management, allows enterprises to break from the silo approach and help overcome network complexity.

SOLIDserver DDI enables fast, consistent deployment of IP and DNS resources across all infrastructures, ultimately improving time to market and customer experience, which are key differentiators for making your business succeed.