Market Research Brief: Cloud Networking
SD-WAN Growth Outlook
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Building, securing and operationalizing enterprise cloud networks with native
cloud networking and advanced network and security services
Multi-Cloud Networking
Highlights of this Market Brief:
• The increase in enterprise cloud deployments has created demand for multi-
cloud networking. Multi-cloud
network architectures must use native cloud
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to abstract, automate, secure, and
improve networking within and between multiple public clouds.
• Multi-cloud solves problems in connecting multiple public clouds. Enterprise
organizations interviewed by Futuriom and others have expressed the need to
automate intra- and inter-cloud network connectivity.
• Growing security and compliance issues. Managing networks presents many
security and compliance challenges, all of which can be served by a well
architected multi-cloud networking approach.
• Multi-cloud networking can solve key cloud network operational challenges.
Building a common multi-cloud network data plane that leverages both native
cloud networking constructs and advanced network and security services can be
used to solve many operational challenges including network visibility, security,
compliance, redundancy, and applications reliability.
• Multi-cloud networking use cases are growing. Key use cases include:
o Multi-cloud Transit Networking
o Network as Code Automation – Single Terraform Provider
o Bringing Enterprise Security Policies and Next Gen Firewalls to the cloud
o Multi-Cloud Automation and Workflow Provisioning
o Day-two operational Visibility and troubleshooting
o Leveraging hyperscaler infrastructure for Enterprise Virtual WAN
o Simplified enterprise acquisition and integration
• Abstraction-driven automation. The future of multi-cloud networking will be
driven by using APIs to connect a variety of public cloud frameworks and
platforms that simplify the creation and operation of multi-cloud networks.
