Hybrid Multi-Cloud

As organizations evaluate cloud for new applications and to modernize legacy workloads, there is a real shift towards hybrid multicloud-first approach. But cloud adoption value is being hindered by siloed data and time-consuming error-prone processes.

To help ensure success of cloud projects, resources deployed in clouds should be integrated with a DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) solution for maximum visibility, resiliency automation, control, and security. Investing in a multicloud-ready and unified DDI solution can help enterprises simplify, accelerate and de-risk their multicloud and strategic IT initiatives.

Business Challenges

As the foundation of digital transformation, cloud has changed how IT is architected, delivered and operated. However, enterprises are struggling with varied cloud APIs, data silos, millions of access points and skills shortages causing network configuration issues and loss of control. IDC discovered top three challenges to be: building a common control workflow (58%), lack of unified monitoring and management (55%), and inability to drive one security policy across different cloud providers (55%).

Infrastructure sprawling across on and off-premise 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.