A10 Networks' Multi-Cloud Blueprint Provides Intelligent Automation of Polynimbus Secure Application Services
November 19 2019 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Cloud Evolution Forces a New Approach to Ensure
Digital Transformation Success
A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) outlined its blueprint to enable
enterprises and web giants to meet the demands for the security,
reliability and agility of applications in a multi-cloud world.
With applications increasingly distributed across multiple clouds,
and users more mobile, managing and securing applications has
become more complex than ever. This disparate infrastructure and
the increased threat surface create challenges to digital
transformation. A10’s Polynimbus application services blueprint
offers a way forward for enterprises and web giants to bridge the
gaps created by diverse application environments that need to be
managed and secured. This blueprint can enable greater simplicity,
agility, consistent manageability and security for organizations as
they tackle the complexities of the multi-cloud world.
Today, there is an “application exodus” from traditional
enterprise data centers, with applications now running across
multiple clouds. This requires an effective Polynimbus operational
model. Polynimbus is defined as the operations of an enterprise
across two or more public clouds, and this has now become the de
facto standard for application infrastructures. In fact, according
to a global survey conducted by the Business Performance Innovation
(BPI) Network, in partnership with A10, approximately two thirds of
enterprises have deployed across two or more public clouds, with 84
percent expecting to increase their reliance on public or private
clouds over the next 24 months. However, only 11 percent of
companies surveyed believed they had been “highly successful” in
realizing the benefits of multi-cloud infrastructures. Security,
lack of IT talent, and effectively managing the complexity are
understandably listed as top challenges.
“There is also an unprecedented need for deeper visibility and
real-time insights into application traffic, particularly for
cloud-based applications and cloud-native environments, where
dynamic and often ephemeral microservices require pervasive
application-layer observability,” said Brad Casemore, IDC’s
research vice president, Datacenter Networks. “Modernized Security
and ADC technologies are capable of playing an integral role in
helping enterprises realize the full array of multi-cloud benefits
as they move to a multi-cloud (or Polynimbus) application services
environment, especially in an era when applications – supported by
agile and flexible application-delivery infrastructure – are more
important to business success than ever before.”
A New Multi-Cloud Operational Model Required
A10 addresses the new multi-cloud operational reality with the
Polynimbus application services blueprint. It covers secure
operations considerations, the most impactful current and emerging
multi-cloud technologies, migration from on-premises hardware and
software to the cloud, and the requirements to ensure a successful
pivot of operations across a multi-cloud environment. It is no
longer a case of a few cloud architects simply deploying a couple
of applications to the cloud in silos. It is a shift to managing
the new reality securely and efficiently as a core reliable IT
operation.
“A10 understands the myriad of challenges enterprises and web
giants are facing as they enter a new phase in shifting to
multi-cloud strategies,” said Lee Chen, founder and CEO of A10
Networks. “Organizations need to move beyond the early siloed
deployments of cloud platforms, to adopt intelligent automation to
handle the operational challenges of these systems. In this phase,
organizations need to adjust their strategy to ensure the business
is protected and applications are always reliable.”
A10 provides a comprehensive stack of Polynimbus application
services to ensure a successful multi-cloud solution:
- Full Software and Cloud Support – Availability of
services in the most prevalent form factors. Delivering
cloud-specific services (e.g. Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services), containers, bare metal,
virtual, and hardware are table stakes in the Polynimbus
application services world. With the move to a true Polynimbus
operational model, organizations must plan their services migration
path for the next 2-5 years to meet their operational goals.
- Full Secure Services Stack – Multiple application
services are required to perform security and reliability functions
across cloud infrastructure. Services on a given cloud provider may
differ widely, so Polynimbus application services must be available
to ensure seamless application delivery. Representative services
include advanced load balancing, web application firewall,
authentication access management, malicious traffic and bot
mitigation, integrated DDoS protection with real-time threat
intelligence, data center firewall, L7 application scripting,
global server load balancing, TLS/SSL offload, and more.
- Flexible and Portable Licensing – Flexible software
licensing and consumption via a capacity pooling license is a newer
concept in comparison to the traditional hardware appliance
approach. In the software world, licensing requires simplification,
for both procurement and ongoing operations. Portability and
flexibility ensure costs do not escalate, and scalable
architectures can be delivered.
- Any-Cloud Central Management – Addressing the IT staff
shortages, reducing natural human error, and ensuring compliance
with streamlined centralized and consistent management is required
to simplify and normalize operations across diverse
environments.
- Central Visibility and Reporting – The normalization of
visibility across cloud deployments is needed for consistent
operations, and granularity at the per-app and per-object level is
essential. Coupled with data enrichment and correlating security
risks, operational issues can be pinpointed and solved, despite the
complexity under the hood. Analytics for lower TCO and reduced
downtime using actionable intelligence helps organizations meet
user expectations and compliance objectives.
- Cloud Selection and Redundancy – Cloud redundancy to
account for natural disasters, cloud outages, cloud subscription
costs, or other reasons, is essential for a better user experience.
While some cloud providers may offer a solution for their own
products, some do not. In addition, the complexity of multi-cloud
interoperation among providers can be solved with global server
load balancing to manage site and application selection. Cloud
bursting for peak traffic times is one such scenario that requires
intelligence beyond a single cloud.
- Full SecOps and DevOps Ready – Automation drives
consistency and efficient operations. Organizations need to ensure
all functions are programmatically available to SecOps and DevOps
staff from auto-generated vendor APIs. Automation needs full API
support for lifecycle management and operations, including support
of industry-leading automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform,
and others.
- Broader Ecosystem Integrations – Compatibility with
other products is required, as no single vendor is ubiquitous.
Thus, native or API integrations are required to ensure seamless
operations, for example, meeting the current demand for the
accelerated Kubernetes and container-based environment adoption
with comprehensive integrations. Other infrastructure integrations
include Cisco, Dell, Juniper, Microsoft, Nutanix, Oracle, Red Hat,
VMware, and more.
- Flexible Architecture and Software Scale-out – A
flexible architecture is the foundation for addressing
high-performance and elasticity requirements of multi-cloud.
Scale-out solutions allow seamless scalability and maintain
comprehensive high availability. Flexibility and scale extend to
micro-service container environments, virtual or bare metal, where
mechanisms need to be in place to support growing business needs in
an on-demand fashion.
A10’s Polynimbus application services address the sea change to
intelligently automated multi-cloud operations that has swept
across the industry. A10’s application delivery solutions address
all the key criteria defined by the Polynimbus application services
blueprint, meeting the multi-cloud challenge. The A10 Thunder®
Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Thunder Convergent
Firewall (CFW) and Threat Protection System (TPS) deliver these
security and application services across multi-cloud environments.
They are fully supported by and integrated with the A10 Harmony
Controller® for multi-cloud orchestration, analytics, and
management.
A10’s high-performance Polynimbus application services – Thunder
ADC, Thunder CFW and Thunder TPS – are available today in a variety
of form factors, including hardware, virtual, bare metal and
container-based. Flexible and portable licensing is available with
FlexPool®. More information can be found on the A10 website.
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About A10 Networks
A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) provides Reliable Security Always™,
with a range of high-performance application networking solutions
that help organizations ensure that their data center applications
and networks remain highly available, accelerated and secure.
Founded in 2004, A10 Networks is based in San Jose, Calif., and
serves customers globally with offices in more than 80 countries
worldwide. For more information, visit: www.a10networks.com and
@A10Networks.
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