Enabling Data Centers that Make Sense

Prioritizing risks across the many sectors we care about in critical infrastructure uncovers a rapidly growing ecosystem of sectoral dependencies and digital interdependencies. As cyber incidents specifically focused on operational technology and industrial control systems environments continue to increase, the community at large is working to build proactive approaches to preparedness and resilience in critical infrastructure.

In this webinar, experts from HashiCorp, WWT, and Aviatrix will discuss proven methods for simplifying cloud network infrastructure automation by leveraging one cloud network platform, one Terraform provider, and one automation platform.

Networking becomes a major issue when enterprises adopt a multi-cloud strategy. From local VLAN and subnetting features to cloud interconnects, routing and security, today’s enterprises lean heavily on the native networking functions and services of their cloud providers. Unfortunately, these native offerings are proprietary to individual cloud providers, which makes building and operating an end-to-end, multi-cloud network extremely complex.

In spite of the clear success of the hyperscale public cloud providers, many organizations – due to cost, control, refactoring complexity and data sovereignty issues – are choosing to host many workloads with regional cloud service providers (CSP), in colocation/interconnection facilities or to simply keep workloads on-premise. These data center operators, whether xSP or enterprise, typically already manage multiple data centers today. With the growth of IoT and edge compute on the horizon, they need to prepare to deploy and manage 10’s if not 100’s of mini- and micro-data centers in the future. It is critical that data center operators review and analyze their networking approach to multi-site data center architecture now in order to streamline operations and costs today and to prepare for the IoT and edge compute tsunami of tomorrow.