DDI across hybrid and multicloud environments.

Cloud services are becoming more integral to efficient network management. They require little to no up-front capital investment, are simple to scale up or down as your networking or storage needs change, and reduce investments in on-site hardware provisioning, maintenance and management.

But cloud platforms endanger centralized visibility, synchronization, and integrated management between infrastructure vendors and platforms. Left unchecked, this can lead to overlapping address spaces that cause expensive migration challenges and limit network adaptability.

To take advantage of multicloud networks, businesses need solutions that are widely compatible and capitalize on cloud-native functionality. Without the former the range of options is limited (defeating the purpose of multicloud) and without the latter much of the ROI of the process is lost (due to limited efficiency).

Simply put, ‘multicloud‘ is the use of multiple cloud environments within one network. A multicloud network can be comprised solely of multiple cloud vendors or a hybrid network utilizing both on-prem infrastructure and more than one cloud service.

For network managers, the multicloud’s advantage is diversity of supply chain and distribution of resources. In addition, multiclouds offer automation for streamlining task loads and eliminating misconfiguration (human error) as well as adding redundancy to protect against attacks, all while ensuring a backend-agnostic implementation of cloud network technology.

By utilizing various vendors, IP infrastructure managers can take advantage of the strengths of each cloud service. This affords companies more flexibility and portability, agility, security and reliability.

Both cloud-native and external support IPAM and DNS services benefit from a multicloud management approach.