Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 33 | Page 55

FEATURE: SECURING MULTI-CLOUD Implementing an application delivery strategy for a secure multi-cloud experience There are many benefits to adopting a multi-cloud approach – but there are also new risks introduced that need to be carefully managed. Chris Martin, Channel Leader for EMEA & SAARC, A10 Networks, tells us about the benefits of implementing an application delivery strategy for multi-cloud experience, as well as how A10 Networks is working with customers to ensure their business applications are secure, consistent and highly available in any multicloud environment. hHow has enterprise infrastructure evolved in line with the acceleration of Digital Transformation strategies? What we are seeing is Digital Transformation and IoT projects increasing rapidly. This means enterprise infrastructure and operations becoming more involved early on in planning discussions to understand the proposed service and support models that companies require. This helps to avoid unforeseen service gaps that could cause serious headaches in the future for these companies. Today, infrastructure is everywhere and the pace of change for operations and infrastructure will only increase in the future as IT leaders face pressure to create, deploy, manage and govern dynamic application environments more quickly. How is complex infrastructure such as multi-cloud impacting security risks? Multi-cloud offers organisations multiple benefits such as flexibility, scalability and cost and performance optimisation. However, two www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 55