Data Center Interconnect for the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

The world is moving to the cloud. Everything from entertainment and consumer mobile applications to enterprise software and government services is already living in the cloud or will be headed there soon.

But in the rush to proclaim the inevitable dominance of the cloud, it’s easy to forget that there are many clouds, including public and private clouds, and many paths to the future. For enterprises in particular, moving to the cloud can be a challenging multi-year journey. As they make this journey, most enterprises are planning hybrid cloud strategies, incorporating both public and private cloud infrastructures and using multiple cloud services.

In a hybrid multi-cloud environment, the data center interconnect (DCI) networks connecting the clouds become a critical component of IT infrastructure. Increasingly, enterprises are looking to high-capacity optical interconnection technologies to ensure that they can connect all the pieces of their hybrid cloud with security, scalability, performance, and control.