Why digital business transformation depends on public cloud networking

Companies increasingly seek digital business transformation. From a purely technology perspective, most pieces are in place for this transformation to occur. But too often, one thing is inhibiting the process: public cloud networking complexity. The public cloud is becoming the new foundation for what the cloud does. Important things will continue to happen in on-premises data centres, intelligent edge devices, and branch offices. But more new enterprise applications are emerging whose centre of gravity is the public cloud. Within public cloud networking, virtual private clouds (VPCs) and virtual private networks (VPNs) represent a significant operational challenge for most organizations. Already, they far out-number data centres and branch networks. In fact, I’ve heard colleagues at Amazon Web Services (AWS)—arguably the leader in public cloud—predict a fourfold increase in VPCs over the next three years.