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loud computing has transformed how
we consume and deploy IT solutions.
Compute power is rapidly evolving to
a utility model, with shared infrastructure
at its core. This shared infrastructure
underpinning the cloud revolution has also
driven a fundamental shift in how we design
and deploy technology within the data
center. Servers, storage, networks, even the
data center itself has moved beyond physical
limits to become virtualized services residing
on physical hardware. With this new virtual
shared infrastructure model, comes new risks.
According to IDC, 75% of organizations
are implementing or considering the
implementation of public cloud. Further, they
predict that 50% of enterprise workloads
will migrate to public cloud by 2018. At
the same time, the threat environment
is only expanding, and it is no longer the
traditional hacker breaching the network
perimeter that drives those who manage
network security. East-west traffic, traffic
between systems inside the network, now
dominates the corporate data flow. Hybrid
cloud environments link corporate systems
and applications to external data sources
and customers. Private cloud deployments
serve up compute power as a service to
application developers deploying new
functionality to both internal and external
users. The network design paradigm for the
data center is now flatter. n
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