By Saad Mirza and Shahzad Ali Have you been tasked with improving legacy network designs? Does your company use a cloud service provider (CSP) underlay network to build its cloud network backbone? If this sounds familiar, our new Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) Program course – Cloud Backbone and Hybrid Connectivity – may be…
TLDR; MACSec exposes your data in the clear at every router hop along the way. IPSec provides better end-to-end security with high throughput with technology available from Aviatrix. If your company has sensitive data to transmit over a network, you will want that data to be encrypted as much as possible and sent over a…
The cost of cloud services is influenced by a complex web of factors, often resulting in unexpected bills. In a recent conversation I had with one CIO, he mentioned that they had allocated $5 million for their annual cloud budget but ended up paying $15 million. A 3x escalation in budget is not easy to…
As businesses increasingly rely on cloud technologies, they choose platforms that are best for their specific needs irrespective of the cloud provider – often resulting in using two or more public clouds. The desire to stay cloud-native results in two, three, four different cloud provider-specific cloud-native architectures that then need to be stitched together and…
As a 30+ year veteran in the networking business, I can attest to the fact that the enterprise network backbone has been the foundation of network architecture for decades. And now, as business-critical applications move from the data center to the cloud, enterprises are rethinking backbone network architecture. With cloud as the new center of…