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BUSINESS SURVEILLANCE 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 multi-cloud 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 critical areas that need to be managed effectively are application availability and security and a multi-cloud strategy can make this more challenging. By using a variety of public cloud services, the line of defence runs across more than one single provider and applications could be located in multiple clouds and on-premises data centres, so it is essential that robust load balancing, secure networking and security measures are put in place. Organisations must ensure the security of their infrastructures even though public clouds may offer security services Chris Martin, Channel Leader for EMEA & SAARC, A10 Networks or a business can be susceptible to costly security breaches. What approach should enterprises adopt in the case of load balancing and ADC technology? For enterprise businesses, load balancing is not just about managing traffic anymore. As business infrastructure expands to include applications in public, private and hybrid clouds, application delivery has evolved from a technology function to a business function that delivers value to the business as a whole. Enterprises require five key adoption techniques to unravel complexity. 1. Visibility and analytics are key to the performance and reliability of applications that are critical to the business. Incorporating automation to set baselines for application 62 Issue 29 | www.intelligentciso.com