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
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