Today's networks need to be able to meet a wide and rapidly changing set of business requirements and provide employees with seamless connectivity to data, applications, and platforms from anywhere and everywhere. This includes the ability to handle vastly higher traffic or secure connectivity with the cloud, including protection for outbound traffic as well as inbound. 

The goal is to build a network strategy for a modern cloud environment. Here's a snapshot of some of the recommendations from Gartner that infrastructure and operations leaders should consider:

•  Outline an effective enterprise network strategy by establishing baseline principles for business concerns and branch operations, cloud networking and other major elements.

•  Evaluate the enterprise's services strategy and financial situation by transforming use case scenarios and gathering information about the costs associated with enterprise networking. 

•  Assess the ability of the network to meet the current needs by conducting a thorough inventory of network components.

How InterCloud can help

•  Build a secure network to cover traffic between devices and workloads and clouds

•  Automate at scale so that monitoring and analysis of workloads and network happen as one unified approach

•  Achieve global reach with a single, scalable network infrastructure with access to 100% of cloud service providers with exceptional level agreements (SLAs).