Identifying and verifying where the risks lie is a fundamental prerequisite for mitigating action, but faced with the complexity of hybrid cloud environments, many enterprises are struggling to do that.
But overall demand for Cisco's technology, they say, should increase as many companies build their own cloud environments and the amount of data zipping across computer networks continues to surge because of the rising use of everything from smartphones to streaming video and music services.
Many such clouds either ran in public cloud environments (thus undeserving of the appellation 'private') or suffered from a lack of any cloud benefits.
By working with a trusted partner to leverage a single instrument panel to manage multi-vendor cloud environments, enterprises can avoid many of the pitfalls associated with multi-cloud implementation and reap the associated benefits.
In the last few years, many techniques have been proposed to tackle different cloud environments enabled by the flexible nature of the cloud, leading to the techniques of different designs.
Generally speaking, NewSQL data stores meet many of the requirements for data management in cloud environments and also offer the benefits of the well-known SQL standard.
Due to such characteristics of cloud computing, many applications have been created in or migrated to cloud environments over the last few years [9].
The recent high-profile crash of Amazon EC2 cloud which took down many applications is a salient example of unpredictability in cloud environments.
Even large enterprises with many internally managed systems will make liberal use of cloud environments in addition to their internal systems.
Many publications also state the need for better security mechanisms for cloud environments.
