Aviatrix's Vision for Multicloud Operations with Colocation

The global networking infrastructure is changing fast. Gone are the days when an enterprise would manage its networking infrastructure with a few vendors, a couple of leased lines, some management tools, and switches in a wiring closet. The typical large enterprise now uses a sprawling combination of network resources that can include networking hardware, software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN), cloud security services, public cloud infrastructure, and communications service providers.

As distributed application and data needs climb, it’s clear that organizations need to find a better way to integrate and manage these network resources. A unified network management plane is needed to provide consistent visibility, security, and operational simplicity across diverse environments.

Deeper Visibility and Integration Needed

These services and infrastructures can be pieced together and integrated by application programming interfaces (APIs), but that’s not always enough. While API-based integration offers some connectivity, it doesn’t provide the deep visibility, performance consistency, or security posture modern organizations need.

To provide more effective security and more economical outcome, deeper integrations are needed. More importantly, the organization needs full visibility and control over the entire virtual network. Using a combination of colocation facilities, public cloud onramps, and MCN software, all of these can be accomplished—to build more secure, economical, and manageable global networks.

This is the context that provides for better distributed multicloud security. It's also the reason why Aviatrix has teamed up with Megaport to embed Aviatrix' high-speed encryption in Megaport's fabric. It's also the topic of this recent Leadership Brief from Futuriom.

Futuriom recently caught up on partnerships among Aviatrix, Equinix, and Megaport to see how flexible multicloud offerings can be integrated to deliver a secure global network fabric. In addition to analyzing the offerings, Futuriom spoke to several customers who described to us the benefits of building multicloud networking using these solution sets.

Highlights of This Leadership Brief

After talking to end users employing the solution, Futuriom has concluded one of the largest benefits of building an integrated multicloud network with Aviatrix, Megaport, and Equinix is the capability to deploy a single operational model across all of an enterprise’s networks and clouds. This includes a consolidated view of both traditional infrastructure as well as cloud-native constructs such as virtual private circuits (VPCs).

Read on by downloading this Leadership Brief. Here are some of the key findings:

Distributed cloud applications, data portability, and AI are increasingly demanding secure high-performance connectivity among clouds as well as for on-premises resources.
Cloud networks provided by cloud providers work great inside their clouds, but are not natively interoperable across clouds or with enterprise networking models.
What’s needed is a tightly integrated distributed network model that can seamlessly bridge on-premises networks, colocation, and cloud infrastructure.
Colocation facilities have always been strategic assets for enterprises, even for those building modern hybrid or multicloud networks.
Enterprises can combine multicloud networking solutions from Equinix or Megaport in conjunction with Aviatrix’s multicloud networking and security platform to build their self-managed secure global multicloud networks—not just connecting to the hyperscaler infrastructures but operating within and across multiple clouds with full control.