How to make IaaS part of your Data Center?Based on a recent study by gartner, through 2020, workloads that exploit public cloud IaaS capabilities to improve security protection will suffer at least 60% fewer security incidents than those in the traditional data centers. During this same period, , 95% of the Cloud security failures will be of customer fault and 99% of vulnerabilities exploited will continue to be ones know of security and IT professionals for at-least one year. There are ways to mitigate this including:

• Using the native security capabilities of IaaS Service provider.

• Performing app security testing as an integral part of the deployment cycle

• Leverage standard security and management capabilities across datacenter and public cloud.

However, a significant part of the problem in dealing with security issues is lack of automation in deploying and managing the policies. Manual process of configuring, patching and authentication is a huge catalyst in setting enterprises on a path of security breach. By making automation as the foundation, enterprises should closely evaluate options to build an infrastructure that doesn’t limit their capabilities to easily move applications between their data center and public cloud platform due to security or architectural concerns. Choosing a platform that brings industry leading services including Advance Networking Services which enables enterprises to mirror on-premises networks in the cloud with minimal changes to design and network topology could be a good option.

Enabling a secured infrastructure doesn’t have to come at the cost of complicating management and operations. A true hybrid cloud platform serves the need of enterprises to seamlessly extend their on premise data center to public cloud through network extensions and enhanced workload migration capabilities. The Hybrid Cloud Manager (HCM) capability in vCloud Air is one such example that is helping vSphere customers enable an environment which is not

only enterprise grade secured but also easy to port applications through the bi-directional portability capabilities. With enhanced features Hybrid Cloud Manager now go beyond workload migration with it’s Software Define WAN (SD-WAN) technologies for improved performance, security and control between vSphere powered Data Centers and vCoud Air. Find more information on HCM new capabilities click here

Data Center consolidation is emerging as a way for enterprise IT to reduce the complexities associated with managing their on premise infrastructure. Outsourcing a data center to reduce cost will have it’s own set of challenges including new learning curves along with ensuring the new environment meets the security requirements.Enterprises with vSphere environments have an option to bring their own security and networking appliances to vCloud Air and enable a consistent environment between their data centers and public cloud. The Hybrid DMZ Reference design makes it not only easier to replicate an environment but also provide security and isolation for off-premise workloads. Find out more about Hybrid DMZ and it’s enhanced capabilities here.

With the latest enhancements , vCloud Air is emerging as preferred platform of choice for enterprises looking to leverage the power of Public Cloud without having to give away control with improved security protection and workload migration.

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