Do You Have Peace of Mind After Transitioning to the Public Cloud?

Transitioning to the public cloud allows enterprises to focus on core competencies, drive business agility, and leverage various tools and business models. While transitioning to the cloud, enterprises expect streamlined IT efforts and reduced costs. The big promise behind these expectations is computing elasticity – the on-demand delivery of IT resources – computing power, storage, and network connectivity. The rationale behind computing elasticity is the ability to quickly expand or decrease computer processing, memory, and storage resources to meet changing demands without worrying about physical infrastructure, capacity planning, and engineering for peak usage.

But is this the case? What tools do you have in place to ensure SLAs with your end customers are met so that you can gain peace of mind?

A Public Cloud is a hardware-based datacenter, after all

One should bear in mind that public clouds are hardware-based data centers, governed by cloud operating systems and operated by Service Providers. Additionally, the customer’s budget constraints are always a dominant factor in setting their cloud environment and services. Hence, despite its interesting offering and technology, the cloud’s network capacities remain capped, resulting in applications competing over the deployed cloud network resources, and under-delivering on their SLA metrics.

Consequently, without granular observability into the public cloud networking resources, coupled with the inability to enforce applications’ priorities and execution, enterprises cannot achieve peace of mind, nor ensure that SLAs are met and their reputation is maintained.

Indeed, the major public cloud vendors provide monitoring tools to shed some light on purchased cloud environment usage. As an IT expert, you can monitor various indicators about your discrete cloud infrastructure resources, depicting their health and performance. But how can you monitor your overall cloud network performance? How do you further drill down to be able to monitor the WAN traffic between your branches and the public cloud? And, when needed, how do you (re)gain control to ensure the execution of your most critical applications is performing up to your expectations?

Gain full control over your public cloud with ACTI

Allot Cloud Traffic Intelligence (ACTI) ensures a seamless cloud migration and ongoing operation, safeguarding your productivity and reputation.

ACTI eliminates the often-overlooked cloud networking fog, providing unparalleled observability and advanced traffic control for both internal cloud traffic and traffic between your enterprise branches and the public cloud. This ensures business continuity and optimizes purchased cloud resource utilization, driving significant cost savings.

Allot Cloud Traffic Intelligence (ACTI) implements a technique labeled “Public Cloud Slicing” – which delivers granular control (“slices”) over the public cloud pipe that serves the applications and the services that have migrated to the cloud. Public Cloud Slicing transforms the unmanaged cloud pipe into a set of managed pipes, allowing IT personnel to control the bandwidth and priority delivered to each migrated workload and application in use.

ACTI’s innovative Public Cloud Slicing technology allows you to manage bandwidth, prioritize resources, mitigate traffic surges, maintain SLAs, and deliver an optimized digital experience for your end customers.