FEATURE: NETWORK AUTOMATION
a foundation of highly available and
secure DDI services to provide them with
the scalability and resilience they need
to perform effectively.
A centralised platform is required that
will deliver greater automation and
visibility, and help to control, secure, and
analyse next-generation data centres
and cloud environments.
Improving resource planning and
reducing security risks, the automation
of DNS provisioning as part of existing
workflows and the clean-up when
VMs are destroyed can eliminate
unnecessary manual processes and
trouble tickets. As a result, the bottleneck
most commonly affecting successful
cloud application implementation and
rollout will be removed, and hybrid cloud
deployments can be optimised to meet
an organisation’s particular needs.
In order to avoid any blind spots and
incongruent views within the network,
the consolidation of different terms
and naming conventions via a single,
unified console allows virtual machines
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THE NETWORK IS
THE FOUNDATION OF
ANY ORGANISATION,
AND KEEPING THAT
NETWORK STRONG,
STABLE AND SECURE
SHOULD BE A
TOP PRIORITY AS
MORE BUSINESSES
TRANSITION TO
A HYBRID CLOUD
ENVIRONMENT
and network components to be
discovered and tracked across disparate
platforms and cloud environments. The
destruction of a VM will automatically
be documented, its DNS record cleaned
up, and its IP address released, ensuring
that all appropriate information is
accurate and up-to-date.
One further benefit of having this
current and historical visibility into
an organisation’s network is that it
will enable more efficient auditing of
its virtual resources for compliance
purposes.
Furthermore, distributing authorisation
for permission can empower the
workload of individual departments
within an organisation while
maintaining complete oversight and
control of the hybrid cloud as it evolves.
The network is the foundation of any
organisation, and keeping that network
strong, stable and secure should be a top
priority as more businesses transition to
a hybrid cloud environment.
Making it fast and easy for IT teams
to take charge of core network services
and security through one unified
platform will strengthen and secure that
foundation, increasing business speed
and agility, and will allow organisations
to embrace the opportunities this new
paradigm represents.
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