The cloud stories: overcoming multicloud complexity in the real world | ePISODE 1 

Globally, organizations have accelerated the adoption of multicloud or hybrid cloud environments in recent years. However, despite considerable benefits, IT professionals often face increased complexity in managing the disparate cloud environments - with difficulty moving workloads and data between providers and network unpredictability. In addition, an effective cloud strategy cannot succeed without flexible, reliable, and seamless connectivity to the cloud. 

As the only Software-Defined Cloud Interconnect (SDCI) provider delivering a secure, end-to-end managed service, InterCloud helps businesses simplify and accelerate network operations with a high-level of performance and transparency for critical applications distributed across multiple locations and different cloud providers. 

To give you some real-world examples, we are pleased to bring “The Cloud Stories.” – a collection of short-form use cases that illustrate key challenges some of our customers have faced and the InterCloud solutions that have helped overcome them.

Globally recognized financial institutions adopting digital transformation as a strategic enabler needed to ensure the performance and security of a business-critical application in a multicloud environment.

Business objectives:
Create a fit-for-purpose cloud environment that will better support the company’s operations and critical applications in a digital-first environment to ensure that it stays ahead of the competition.

As a large financial institution operating worldwide, the company relies heavily on its cloud services, enabling it to run critical applications without needing to retain a large IT footprint (IaaS, SaaS). Therefore, the requirement for low latency and jitter to ensure optimal application performance was critical. In addition, the ideal solution not only needed to deliver a best-in-class standard of performance, but it also needed to be highly secure to meet strict compliance requirements.