By Beatrice Durand-Piquer, Vice-President Marketing, Ipanema
Reducing telecom costs while guaranteeing application performance with Dynamic Hybrid Networking.
In a world that moves at ‘web speed’, the complexity of IT is increasing and the performance of your applications truly equals business efficiency.
While supporting company efficiency is one of the key objectives of the IT department, the challenging economic times require CIOs to do ‘more with less’. It’s time for them to get innovative to reduce telecom costs while managing more users, apps and sites and providing an excellent end user experience.
Enterprises use a more and more hybrid cloud network to do more with less
When considering all the types of applications that a business has and how many of them need to work together, the need for a hybrid cloud solution that can support everything becomes strongly apparent. But hybrid networking comes with its own challenges to be considered.
How can you guarantee, simultaneously, the performance of business applications using Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) as well as others using internet? How can you authorise new usages and internet traffic growth while avoiding costly bandwidth upgrades? How can you protect the applications that are the heart of your business against those nice-to-have, not so critical applications?
To deliver homogeneous application performance over the cloud, it is essential that enterprises turn their hybrid network into a reliable and predictable business network. By replacing discrete, static traffic management mechanisms with Dynamic Hybrid Networking, enterprises can regain control of their private and public cloud applications, guarantee business application performance and business continuity while reducing telecom costs and improving IT agility.
Be dynamic and adapt to new usages and real-time business processes
Social media, SaaS applications, private and public cloud, virtual desktops, etc. can all extend the requirements for hybrid networking where enterprises combine traditional MPLS networks with internet accesses. How can enterprises select the right network so that business applications perform well, all the time, wherever? There is a fundamental difference between policy-based and objective-based solutions.
Static, policy-based path selection is complex to manage and isn’t relevant to guaranteeing business continuity
Static WAN selection is renowned for its huge maintenance workload throughout the network life cycle. While it provides acceptable availability guaranteed with its fallback capabilities, static path selection faces other, strong limitations. It cannot optimise the usage over multiple lines (there is no link between the user traffic demand and the WAN selection decision) and it cannot guarantee the impact on the end-to-end user experience as it works from a local point of view.
Guarantee business continuity and optimise network costs with dynamic, objective-based path selection (Dynamic Hybrid Networking)
Dynamic path selection is the only way to guarantee business continuity in a fast-moving IT environment. When aligned with the business objectives, it provides dynamic control of the business applications. Easy to operate, it automatically adapts to constantly changing application traffic conditions. New applications, number of users, employees’ real-time activity, application criticality and network performance — as these parameters constantly evolve, so do dynamic solutions.
With Dynamic Hybrid Networking, application performance is always guaranteed. The best WAN path is selected according to the real-time situation (WAN access load, network quality, application performance, balance between different applications, etc.) and according to what is happening end-to-end (locally, in the network and at the far end).
Are you thinking about doing more with less by using internet as a business network?
Dynamic Hybrid Networking is the solution to guarantee your application performance and maximise business continuity.
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