In the early days of cloud computing, moving a simple, isolated workload to the cloud was relatively easy for an organisation. These test projects tended to be small and contained, and carried low risk, because the application was usually selected on the basis of being non-critical to the core business. The rise of hybrid IT has changed that picture dramatically.

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Cost savings, quality of service …
Does hybrid IT require a hybrid WAN?

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How can you maintain MPLS-networks costs, but also ensure the performance
and security of cloud-based applications in the new world of hybrid IT?
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Network traffic patterns are
changing – more critical
workloads are moving from
business-owned data
centres to the cloud
We’ve reached a tipping point
– the volume of data moving
between organisations’
internal infrastructures and
cloud providers is larger than
that moving across internal
data centre networks

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What is a
hybrid WAN?
Hybrid WAN refers to the
introduction into the network
environment of different forms of
connectivity as supplements or
alternatives to MPLS.
The rise of hybrid IT has made the purely MPLS-based WAN almost obsolete.

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How does the
data get there?
Organisations are still
underestimating the need for
a proper data conduit between
their own infrastructure to
a public cloud …
Expert networking skills are required to set up a WAN that’s fast, safe,
and integrates well with existing infrastructure.

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Network savings
help fund cloud …
Financial or commercial
considerations are important, but
organisations are still looking at
cloud options through the lens of
what they will save on data centre
spend … not necessarily including
what they can save on networking
via alternative, hybrid models.
For large networks, connectivity is expensive, so savings in that area
can be used to fund innovation in other areas.

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… but it’s not
just about cost
Research shows that the main
reason for organisations moving
to private cloud for enterprise
applications isn’t cost …
it’s quality of service.
The goal is to build the perfect environment for production workloads and
applications. But such workloads typically need advanced networking, security,
and storage to surround them as they move to the cloud.

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