Exploring Beyond the Cloud: Bringing Cloud Agility to Digital Infrastructures

Organisations may make significant progress towards streamlining IT to create unified experiences and increased business agility with the correct strategy, platforms, and services.

FREMONT, CA: With its ability to give businesses the agility and simplicity that are so crucial to today's businesses, cloud technology serves as a starting point for digital transformation. With its anytime access, policy automation, and visibility operating principles, the cloud is a potent driver for enhancing IT and user experiences.

There is no reason to limit the advantages of cloud computing to the cloud. Organisations can extend the cloud operating model to the network and the complete cloud and network IT stack with the correct strategy, platforms, and solutions. For IT leaders, adopting this new operating model opens up tremendous advantages across a broader range of settings and use cases. It reduces the complexity and fragmentation brought on by unconnected tools and consoles—and the many skill sets required to use them—in on-premises and cloud infrastructures.

Enhancing communication across networks, development, and cloud operations is another benefit of expanding the cloud operating paradigm. This strategy helps lessen areas of friction across organisational handoffs by creating a shared model and vocabulary that transcend operational silos.  As a result, teams are better able to cooperate and solve issues more effectively. The consistency, predictability, and susceptibility to human error of processes improve.

IT teams will be able to operate more quickly and agilely by using the cloud operating model across the network. It can automate processes like rolling out a renewed distributed program to users at home and work. For instance, a business may set up connections and security with a cloud-managed SD-WAN in about an hour. The cloud operating model can allow more visibility into cloud and data centre operations, application deployment, and performance once an application is up and running. Individuals can respond more rapidly with enhanced end-to-end visibility. The teams will find a more intuitive workflow as they troubleshoot issues more quickly and easily.

Bringing in the cloud operation model to the network can provide user experiences, and a streamlined IT strategy can help organisations. It also frees IT leaders to concentrate, develop, and produce superior business results.

By using the cloud operating model, visibility is increased and an end-to-end perspective is created, enabling more consistent governance throughout the infrastructure, from the network to the internet to the cloud, to help guarantee a better application experience for each user. Increasing IT agility has an impact on the entire organisation. By automating manual processes, deploying resources to support new applications, and adapting more quickly to the changing needs of business stakeholders, individuals may stay ahead of business changes. By managing the deployment, optimisation, and troubleshooting lifecycles consistently on-premises and in the cloud, the team will be able to work more efficiently.

Cloud operating principles can help IT move beyond fragmented operations with different policies and processes by enabling consistent governance that helps bring down the impediments between siloed cloud and network teams. Consistency across clouds can also improve security. Individuals can incorporate security into every environment and make automated security updates a crucial component of every lifecycle management process with automation and enhanced end-to-end visibility.