How the NOIA Network Backbone Brings a Big Plus to the Multi-Cloud Landscape
Cloud computing has been around for a while now and offers many advantages — which accounts for its prevalence among businesses today.
In a nutshell, a business entity can elect to farm out their network requirements instead of operating an in-house capability. The advantages are many, including lower cost due to economies of scale offered by a cloud provider, as well as ease of use. But customers do give up a degree of control and versatility, while issues of security and confidentiality remain a concern. Also of increasing significance, especially as regional and national requirements diverge, compliance with legal considerations can also represent significant obligations to an enterprise, which the cloud operator may not always equally provide across all jurisdictions.
But perhaps the single most vulnerability to cloud computing is service outage. Of course, occasional service disruptions are inevitable, but cloud computing clients can nevertheless suffer significantly in terms of lost sales, diminished productivity and disrupted operations when things go down (the recent Google Cloud Platform outage being a case in point).
But here comes ‘Multi-Cloud Computing’ to the rescue!
As the name suggests, multi-cloud infrastructure enables an organization to use multiple vendors, thereby spreading the risk. And not only can risk of disruption of service due to outages be mitigated through such a manner, additional benefits can be derived as well.
Since cloud providers often differ widely in their policies, capabilities and practices, business users can pick and choose alternate cloud providers to suit their particular requirements, either technically or across certain regions or even platforms.
Also, where security issues are paramount, a business can combine cloud services while maintaining their mission critical elements within an in-house capability, or coupled within some external selected hybrid cloud arrangement.
This also means that less sensitive operations can be relegated to a less costly cloud environment, while selecting only the most crucial operations for enhanced security treatment.
For global operations, relying on one cloud service may also hamper a unified level of user experience — due to issues related to distance.
Here again, a multi-cloud option can be selected for certain regions, to ensure a uniform and acceptable level of latency.
So a multi-cloud approach definitely offers advantages and versatility.
NOIA figures into the multi-cloud landscape by way of its backbone. By providing a Network-as-a-Service for clients that are already providing cloud-like services to various customers, NOIA can further enhance client customer experience.
NOIA ‘s recently announced partnership with 100TB, a leading and proven provider of worldwide web-hosting solutions, combines 100TB’s high-quality Infrastructure-as-a-Service with NOIA’s Network-as-a-Service backbone, promising enhanced security, robustness and efficiency.
In case you think this striving for ever greater degrees of efficiency and productivity has modest potential, bear in mind that in North America alone, (according to an IHS Study), outages cost $700 billion in 2016.
In the case of any outage-related event, NOIA’s backbone can instantly alleviate the problem by immediately re-routing traffic via available alternate paths — thereby minimizing negative impact.
So whether providing infrastructure services for a wide variety of clients on a global scale, such as 100TB, or delivering ‘bare metal cloud services” via dedicated hardware for customers across Europe (as is the case with the partnership with Cherry Servers), NOIA Network’s “Network-as-a-Service” Backbone is providing a precise and effective solution towards further enhancing the multi-cloud landscape.
