Cloud networking offers connectivity to and between applications and workloads across clouds, cloud services, on-premises data centers, and edge networks. It's vital to performance, security, and efficient management of hybrid cloud and multicloud environments.
Most application interactions begin at or terminate beyond an organization's own network, so cloud networking is becoming the new enterprise core. Designing, deploying, and maintaining a cloud network for agility, performance, security, and efficiency is vital to companies using public cloud services.
Cloud networking requires collaboration across several IT operations teams (compute infrastructure, networking, and security), application teams, cloud architects, and business stakeholders, including: NetOps: Configures and maintains network architectures to different teams, which helps ensure access to applications and resources and provides a consistent user experience Data center and compute infrastructure teams: Enforces application-aware policies so the network is consistently extended between on-premises and public cloud environments
SecOps: Protects users, access, applications, and data across multiple networks
DevOps and application teams: Leverages network architectures and resources to deploy applications and improve performance
Cloud architects: Contributes to the design of a common strategy across multicloud networking Help ensure your network operations teams are armed with the right tools
Applications: Workloads, microservices, and infrastructure deployed, managed, scaled, and secured easily and consistently Access: User access to applications, including on-premises, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, with consistent security, reliability, and performance
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