Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 54 | Page 16

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MAKING THE JUMP TO HYPERSCALE NETWORK SECURITY

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Hyperscale is the ability of an architecture to scale appropriately as increased demand is added to the system . This involves the ability to seamlessly provision and add more resources to the system that make up a larger distributed computing environment . Hyperscale is necessary to build a robust and scalable distributed system . In other words , it is the tight integration of storage , compute , and virtualisation layers of an infrastructure into a single solution architecture .

There are many reasons why an organisation might adopt Hyperscale computing . Hyperscale may offer the best , or only way to realise a specific business goal like providing cloud computing services . Generally , though , Hyperscale solutions deliver the most cost- effective approach to addressing a demanding set of requirements . For example , a Big Data analytics project might be most economically addressed through the scale and computing density available in Hyperscale . Rapid deployment and automated management capabilities make scaling out simple and hassle free for businesses of all sizes . By tightly integrating net ¬ working and compute resources in a software-defined system , you can fully utilise all hardware resources available to you . By orchestrating your resources in an innovative way , you get much more from what you already have .
However , before we can understand the present and future of Hyperscale Network Security , let ’ s take a quick look into the past . p
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