Many businesses operate multi-cloud environments to deliver IT services and applications to their staff and clients. Many organizations actively choose to diversify their IT infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms to enhance resilience and take advantage of cost optimizations offered by different vendors.
However, multi-cloud environments can also emerge organically as different application vendors build their products on preferred cloud technology stacks. Organizations that wish to utilize a particular application must accept the vendor's chosen cloud platform, which eventually results in the use of multiple cloud providers.
Multi-cloud deployments can offer significant advantages in terms of flexibility and service risk reduction, regardless of how they arise. However, the practice also introduces complexity in managing user connectivity, delivering security, and maintaining performance. IT teams face the challenge of providing seamless, secure access to applications and data spread across various cloud environments while maintaining consistent security policies and optimal performance.
Cloudbrink Solutions Simplify Multi-Cloud Networking
Cloudbrink's innovative approach to multi-cloud networking fundamentally reimagines how organizations connect users to applications and data across multi-cloud environments. Through its AI-powered, software-only solution, Cloudbrink delivers up to 30x performance improvement compared to traditional VPN and ZTNA solutions while maintaining enterprise-grade security. Cloudbrink does this using the technologies outlined below.
High-Performance ZTNA with AI-Driven Optimization
Cloudbrink's ZTNA solution prioritizes security by implementing a zero-trust model. This means that all users, both inside and outside the network, are authenticated and continuously verified before and after being granted access to resources. The aim is to protect against unauthorized access and data breaches, providing secure connectivity regardless of location. The ZTNA solution provides:
- AI-powered packet recovery, delivering uninterrupted video streams and data transfers.
- Intelligent algorithms that preemptively recover lost data packets in congested networks.
- Machine learning optimizes traffic routing across multiple paths.
- End-to-end TLS 1.3 encryption across all communication paths.
- Granular access control at the application level.
- Dark network cloaking to block network-level threats.
Automated Moving Target Defense (AMTD)
AMTD is a security strategy that dynamically changes network attack surfaces to make it difficult for attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities. Cloudbrink's use of AMTD adds an additional layer of security by continuously altering access paths, which complicates potential attack plans and reduces the risk of intrusion. In multi-cloud environments, security like this becomes increasingly more complex as the number of cloud platforms increases. Cloudbrink AMTD addresses security across multi-cloud deployments using:
- AI-driven security posture updates by rotating certificates. Typically, every 8 hours, but it can be set to update as frequently as every 5 minutes.
- FAST edges are temporary and dynamic, activating only when users connect, making them harder for attackers to target than fixed infrastructure PoPs.
- Machine learning-powered path selection.
- Prevention of lateral movement by attacks across cloud environments.
Personal SD-WAN Solutions
Traditional SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) solutions optimize traffic routing and improve application performance for distributed organizations. Cloudbrink Personal SD-WAN extends these benefits to individual users, especially for remote and hybrid workers, by optimizing their network connection paths to ensure high performance and reliability. This helps minimize latency and maximize bandwidth efficiency, resulting in an enhanced user experience when accessing video communications solutions, critical applications, and cloud services spread across multiple providers. Cloudbrink Personal SD-WAN includes:
- Network optimization for each user session.
- Machine learning algorithms for predictive path selection.
- Intelligent packet recovery and loss prevention.
- Support for multiple simultaneous connection paths.
How Cloudbrink Delivers Better Multi-Cloud Networking
The technologies that underpin Cloudbrink translate into the capabilities outlined below. These help organizations get the benefits of multi-cloud strategies, such as increased redundancy, flexibility, and access to best-in-class services from different providers while minimizing connectivity management overheads, security risks, and performance challenges.
- Centralized Management with AI-Powered Analytics - Cloudbrink simplifies the management of multi-cloud environments through centralized visibility and control. This enables IT teams to efficiently monitor performance, enforce security policies, and troubleshoot issues, reducing the complexity often associated with managing connectivity to multiple cloud services. Typically the end user support load reduces by over 50%.
- Unified Connectivity - By offering a single platform that integrates secure and high-performance connectivity across multiple cloud environments, Cloudbrink solutions enable seamless access and communication between different cloud providers. This is crucial for organizations that use services from multiple cloud platforms and need a consistent performance and security posture across p
