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Big Switch Redefines Hybrid Cloud Networking with Cloud-First Networking PortfolioSANTA CLARA, Calif., July 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Big Switch Networks, the Cloud-First Networking Company, today introduced its Cloud-First Networking (CFN) portfolio, encompassing new products and features for hybrid IT. Big Switch’s CFN portfolio addresses hybrid cloud networking design challenges, by bringing the best of public cloud networking on-premises, in contrast to hardware-centric vendors’ approaches that start with adapting legacy on-premises products for use in public clouds. The company is the first to launch key cloud networking features on-prem, with a portfolio that builds from there with corresponding in-cloud products and culminates in a multi-cloud management system. “Since the company’s inception, our focus has been on cloud principles. With our Cloud-First Networking innovations, we have partnered with our customers to build solutions that make the network a first class citizen in a multi cloud world,” said Douglas Murray, CEO, Big Switch Networks. “Organizations around the globe face the same networking challenges when it comes to hybrid cloud, and with CFN we are able to help organizations deploy applications more seamlessly and more efficiently by eliminating the network roadblock.” The company’s current on-prem products, Big Cloud Fabric - Enterprise Cloud (BCF-EC) and Big Monitoring Fabric - Enterprise Cloud (BMF-EC), are the industry’s first solutions offering key public cloud networking and monitoring features to on-prem workloads shipping in the next software release. Building on these, Big Switch is announcing two new public cloud products, Big Cloud Fabric - Public Cloud (BCF-PC) and Big Monitoring Fabric - Public Cloud (BMF-PC) for corresponding in-cloud deployments. Finally, the company is introducing Multi-Cloud Director, a system for consistent hybrid design across on-prem sites, across clouds and across on-prem/in-cloud combinations of networking and monitoring fabrics. Specifically, CFN starts with Enterprise VPCs, an on-prem version of the key feature of public cloud networks implemented by Amazon (VPCs), Azure (vNets) and Google Cloud Platform (VPCs). VPCs bring as-a-Service operations to networking in-cloud and now on-prem. With VPCs everywhere, coupled with automation everywhere and flow-analytics everywhere, CFN is eliminating the on-prem / in-cloud networking inconsistencies that have been a key impediment to seamless hybrid cloud adoption. IT organizations can (1) leverage Enterprise VPCs to construct enterprise cloud networks that deliver public cloud benefits of as-a-Service operations, service velocity and flow-level visibility and (2) simultaneously adopt any public cloud, including Amazon Web Service (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, for additional capacity, application elasticity and/or cost optimization without having to manage multiple architecture teams, multiple operations teams and multiple designs. “An architect at one of our customers made a passing comment -- ‘I chose Big Switch because it was the closest we could get to Amazon networking on-premises’ -- and it went viral. He kicked off our journey to Cloud-First Networking,” said Kyle Forster, Big Switch Founder. “It just clicked… this is what we have to do. It is an exciting time to be in networking.” Cloud-First Networking Portfolio The features and products announced today include: New Features
Big Monitoring Fabric-Enterprise Cloud (BMF-EC) with VPC Intelligence
New Products Multi-Cloud Director offers global management of the following:
VPCs have become the de facto approach for deploying multi-tenant networks in public clouds. Lack of consistency in VPC management and visibility has caused mainstream organizations to slow-roll their adoption of public cloud. Also, VPC sprawl and the ever-increasing need for VPCs to interacts amongst each other and with on-prem assets, are leading to complex architectures consisting of transit VPCs and App VPCs deployed with hub-and-spoke connections. With BCF-PC, Big Switch is enabling IT organizations to bring full governance to any VPC in any cloud, including configuration, visibility/troubleshooting and delegated management. With BCF-PC, organizations can leverage the same user experience, tenant pools, and compliance checks via a consistent approach to managing VPCs, whether in its on-prem enterprise cloud or within a public cloud. BCF-PC provides the following capabilities:
Big Monitoring Fabric-Public Cloud (BMF-PC) BMF-PC solves this issue, with the creation of a VPC-based network packet broker (NPB) in any public cloud. Packets are replicated and forwarded to the “monitoring VPC,” from any workload, and/or VPC. Any cloud-based tools can be connected to BMF-PC for deeper security and application performance monitoring. BMF-PC offers the following capabilities:
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Supporting Quotes "In our data center networks, it is critical for us to provide developers with the same experience in the cloud as they have on-premises. With different features and functions between cloud providers, it is impractical to have full end-to-end visibility, which ultimately leads to slowdowns around troubleshooting and service delivery. To ensure consistency in our designs, having a single place to see all of our VPCs is vital regardless of their location on-prem or in the cloud. As application needs and workloads shift, the need for visibility and transparency is essential to bridging the gap between traditional and future IT operations." -- Neil Hanlon, DevOps Engineer, KAYAK “Our infrastructure will span on-prem and multiple clouds, and a consistent means to monitor and control networks across these environments is critical. We do not want to run completely different operational and network analytics tooling for each platform. Unfortunately, by default this is the case, with each platform’s native capabilities taking different approaches. While competition is good and each platform has its high points, it is an operational nightmare. I want consistency in the basics both on-prem and across clouds: network analytics, packet capture, troubleshooting tools, etc. As we design for hybrid workloads and a multi-cloud future, we are looking for tools that can provide cross-platform transparency and features without undermining the unique value-add capabilities of each platform.” -- Director, Digital Services, Fortune 500 Manufacturer “Having just as nimble networking on- and off-premises is a must for enterprises considering wholescale hybrid cloud deployments. Complete feature parity is needed between on- and off-premises environments – features like virtual private cloud, micro-segmentation, network analytics, and other infrastructure-as-code capabilities that provide fully templated and orchestrated network services throughout the whole lifecycle of an application. That kind of fluidity is the missing technical link in enterprise cloud deployments today, and the one that leads to truly emergent I.T. operations – true NetDevOps capabilities, not just concepts still waiting to be realized.” -- IT Architect, Fortune 100 Aerospace organization “Since its inception Big Switch has pioneered the simplification of networks for private cloud environments. It has simplified operations by automating key operational tasks, and seamlessly integrating its offerings into the industry’s most prominent cloud management platforms. By expanding its framework and embracing the VPC and multi-cloud director paradigms at the heart of its Cloud-First portfolio for enabling hybrid and multi-cloud deployments, Big Switch is again proving the simplicity, versatility and overall efficiency of its solutions by integrating its Big Cloud Fabric and Big Monitoring solutions into the environments used by the public cloud providers its customers want to work with.” -- Paul Parker-Johnson, Practice Lead, Cloud + Virtual System Infrastructures, ACG Research Supporting Material
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