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Introduction
In their ongoing pursuit of digital
transformation, an acute imperative
worldwide, organizations are
increasingly adopting hybrid IT and
embracing multicloud.
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They’re doing so to increase business
agility and to compete more effectively
against both new and established rivals
across a range of industries. To an
unprecedented extent, all organizations are
digitizing aggressively, and all enterprises
are becoming more like technology
companies. The cloud, as both a
destination and an operational model, is a
critical means to that end, and multicloud
is an increasingly prevalent posture for a
growing number of enterprises.
Although the benefits that can accrue
from multicloud are compelling, the
networking implications are profound.
This is particularly true for datacenter
networking. In the client/server era, the
datacenter network was exclusively on-
premise, but multicloud means that the
datacenter (and its network) becomes
inherently distributed and more complex
to provision and manage.
The effect of multicloud is particularly
acute higher up the network stack, at
Layers 4 through 7, where technologies
such as load balancing and application
delivery controllers (ADCs) hold sway.
It makes perfect sense because as
applications become more valuable
to enterprises, as both systems of
engagement (with customers, employees,
and partners) and back-end systems of
record, networking at the application layer
— the layer closest to the application —
grows in stature. ◊
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