Converging Security And Networking For Hybrid IT Environments

By Jon Bove, Fortinet

Implementations of a multi-cloud strategy have increased significantly over the past year. In addition to using private clouds, employees working remotely are also accessing applications from public clouds and consuming services delivered from the cloud. The traditional data center-server, hub and spoke model has been replaced by the end user as the focus – sitting on an endpoint on the LAN edge accessing resources in multiple private and public clouds. Hybrid environments and distributed computing will be standard for the foreseeable future.