ADDRESS YOUR TOP 8 NETWORK CHALLENGES WITH DAY-2 AUTOMATION 5. Managing Cloud-Based Services Today’s critical applications are no longer the traditional, monolithic A significant issue with moving to the cloud is understanding server-based applications. Some applications live on cloud-based how to view and measure performance of those services, infrastructure, while others consist of a compilation of distributed but and how to incorporate those services into the same model IT leaders can interconnected services that are delivered by in-house infrastructure as traditional resources. Existing operational challenges no longer think and by the public cloud. include maintaining design compliance and verifying service delivery across these services. of the cloud as The dominant public cloud service providers include Amazon, a black box. Just Google, and Microsoft, and most software-as-a-service (SaaS) Managing Cloud Services because the offerings span more than one cloud provider. Cloud-based services infrastructure is are typically sold by some measure of consumption or in a IT leaders can no longer think of the cloud as a black box. delivered as a transactional fashion making costing cloud-based service very Just because the infrastructure is delivered as a service, the service. straight-forward and elastic. responsibility to keep IT in support of the business remains. NetBrain can help you close the cloud performance and The problem is business is not just about a contract’s penalty terms; visibility gap by discovering, verifying, and visualizing the it’s about the continued necessity to understand service delivery and underlying cloud infrastructure and capturing the network verification of the required service levels. With or without the use of intents for how information flows across hybrid networks to cloud services, the age-old mantra still rings true, “business stops help you more quickly troubleshoot any issue by: when infrastructure stops.” The discussion of SLA penalty terms has • Decoding cloud infrastructure configuration and very little material effect on the need for those delivered services to capturing expected performance using network intents keep the business running, support customer retention goals, • Verifying and enforcing the network intents in place valuation, and reputation, etc. • Automating incident diagnosis Challenges Many IT organizations have limited their responsibility and accountability for cloud-based services, since they largely have no visibility or control of these external infrastructures. In recent years, that has become a major point of contention as business leaders have make it clear that the selection by IT leadership to rely upon cloud provided services does not reduce or eliminate their accountability for business IT operations.