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Enterprises are rapidly moving to the cloud to optimize costs, achieve agility, and maximize performance. However, there’s a critical obstacle for networking engineers who are working to expand operations to the cloud, particularly those in regulated industries like manufacturing and financial services (think hospitals, factories, banks, distribution centers, and offices): they still have on-premises data centers that they need to integrate with any cloud environment. This creates operational complexity, raises security concerns, and requires seamless integration, all of which need to be directly addressed.
Aviatrix’s Secure High-Performance Datacenter Edge Solution is designed to bridge the gap between traditional on-premises infrastructure and the dynamic world of cloud computing. It addresses the key technical challenges network engineers encounter and offers practical strategies to overcome them.
The Common Gaps in Secure Hybrid Cloud Connectivity
Companies who are looking to create secure hybrid cloud connectivity in their networks face four common gaps:
- The Security vs. Performance Gap: Balancing the need for high throughput with strong data encryption.
- The Operational Complexity Gap: Integrating cloud and on-prem environments without losing control or efficiency.
- The Visibility and Troubleshooting Gap: Maintaining comprehensive network visibility for effective monitoring and quick resolution of issues.
- The Consistency in Standards Gap: Applying consistent network controls and security measures across both cloud and on-prem environments.
You need to address these gaps, but the solutions must be practical, affordable, and designed for the long-term to avoid a management and cost nightmare. Aviatrix’s Secure High-Performance Datacenter Edge Solution addresses each issue with a unified and holistic approach.
Why These Gaps Exist—and How Aviatrix’s Secure High-Performance Datacenter Edge Solution Addresses Them
Balancing Security and Performance
The Challenge:
In hybrid environments, you may find that trying to maintain both high throughput and secure data transmission is like trying to eat your cake and have it, too. High-performance connectivity solutions, such as those that rely only on private circuits, may not have sufficient encryption, while using strong encryption like IPsec often introduces latency and reduces overall throughput. Engineers frequently struggle with the limitations of traditional solutions such as MACsec, which, while providing point-to-point encryption, can be challenging to scale and integrate across a complex hybrid network.
Aviatrix’s Approach:
Aviatrix delivers the best of both worlds: line-rate encryption and high throughput. Unlike traditional approaches that might rely on MACsec for point-to-point encryption, which can limit performance to around 1.25 Gbps when scaled, Aviatrix’ delivers end-to-end encryption at full line rate. This is achieved through optimized encryption protocols and our proprietary high-performance encryption technology, enabling secure, high-throughput connections that maintain the performance required for critical applications. By integrating this capability directly into the network fabric with Aviatrix, you can simplify the network architecture and reduce latency.
Reducing Operational Complexity
The Challenge:
Managing the differing operational models of on-prem and cloud environments is inherently complex. You have to handle various provisioning processes, redundancy configurations, and technical limitations, especially when you integrate services across multiple cloud providers. The complexity gets much worse when you try to implement consistent routing policies, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR) solutions across disparate environments.
Aviatrix’s Approach:
Aviatrix turns complexity into simplicity with a centralized control plane that manages both cloud and on-prem environments. The solution supports the industry-standard routing protocol Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for dynamic route management and implements multi-region and multicloud HA configurations that create redundancy in case a natural disaster or other incident affects one part of your network. You can use Aviatrix’s platform to enforce consistent routing policies, manage failover processes, and integrate Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) models to automate and streamline deployment and management.
Enhancing Visibility and Troubleshooting
The Challenge:
Visibility is often fragmented in hybrid environments, especially when a networking team has to rely on third-party connectivity providers. You may have total visibility in one area of you network and a black box in another. This lack of comprehensive visibility complicates monitoring and troubleshooting, increasing an issue’s mean time to resolution (MTTR) and threatening a network’s reliability.
Aviatrix’s Approach:
Aviatrix enhances visibility by providing comprehensive diagnostic tools that span the entire network, from the data center edge to the cloud. With features like packet capture, latency monitoring, and real-time traffic analysis, you gain detailed insights into network performance. The Aviatrix platform also supports integration with cloud-native monitoring tools, enabling a consistent flow of telemetry data across environments. This full-stack visibility allows you to proactively identify and resolve issues, reducing MTTR and ensuring that your network stays reliable.
Ensuring Consistency in Standards
The Challenge:
On-prem and cloud environments often operate with different standards and tools, such as network address translation (NAT) or security segmentation. These differences make it difficult to maintain consistent network control and security across both environments, forcing you to create a patchwork of policies and rules that complicates issue resolution and can leave dangerous gaps.
Aviatrix’s Approach:
Aviatrix enables the consistent application of network policies across cloud and on-prem environments by smoothing out the complexities of underlying cloud or on-premises systems with abstraction. We provide a single, easy-to-use data plane where you can manage network segmentation and advance NAT across any underlying infrastructure. Aviatrix’s simplified, centralized control streamlines management and security, reducing the risk of misconfigurations or “gaps” that cyberattackers could exploit.
Get the Best of Both Worlds: On-Prem and the Cloud
Aviatrix Secure High-Performance Datacenter Edge delivers a secure, high-performance, and cost-effective model for future growth and expansion across your environments. By addressing key technical challenges—such as balancing security and performance, reducing operational complexity, enhancing visibility, and ensuring consistency in standards—Aviatrix empowers you to bridge the gap between on-premises environments and the cloud with a network that is reliable, secure, and efficient.
Learn more about Aviatrix’s Secure High-Performance Datacenter Edge Solution or schedule a demo.