Multi-Cloud Post-Wiz Acquistion: What Should Be The Operator Strategy?

Google Cloud’s strategic acquisition of Wiz last week highlights a critical trend: the intensifying focus on multi-cloud security. By integrating Wiz’s agentless architecture and Security Graph, Google Cloud aims to provide unparalleled visibility and streamlined security across AWS, Azure, and its own platform. This move positions Google Cloud as a formidable secondary vendor for enterprise multi-cloud strategies, underscoring the growing importance of seamless security across diverse cloud environments.   

This acquisition, alongside the broader market dynamics, reveals a fundamental truth for network and data center providers: the multi-cloud landscape is a double-edged sword, presenting both significant challenges and immense opportunities. Enterprises grapple with the complexities of distributed applications, demanding consistent performance for latency-sensitive workloads, enhanced observability, accelerated deployment cycles, and optimized cost structures. Delivering a superior user experience hinges on effectively balancing these competing demands. At insidepacket, we recognize this as a fertile ground for network and data center innovation, ripe for those who can bridge the multi-cloud divide.   

insidepacket’s Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) technology empowers service providers to address critical gaps in enterprise multi-cloud strategies, focusing on three key areas:

1. Simplified Onboarding, Migration, and Management:

   • Streamline the transition of on-premises or data center workloads to the cloud by fully automating connectivity across diverse cloud environments.   
   • Enable seamless network language translation between public clouds, simplifying complex integrations.
   • Any operator connectivity to cloud: direct connect (NNI), IPsec, or other secure internet base connectivity.

2. Comprehensive End-to-End Traffic Visibility:

   • Gain granular visibility across network and application layers, offices, data centers, cloud environments, internet traffic, and user-to-workload interactions.   

     This deep visibility is critical for performance monitoring, troubleshooting, and security.  

3. Significant Cost Optimization:

   • Egress Traffic Reduction: Minimize cloud provider egress fees by leveraging operator backbones for cloud-to-cloud traffic, bypassing customer premises hairpinning, and interconnecting various cloud providers directly.
   • Inter-Region Traffic Optimization: Eliminate inter-region data transfer fees by utilizing operator NNIs across multiple cloud regions.
   • Competitive Internet Connectivity: Offer operator-provided public IPs via insidepacket NaaS platfrom, providing cost-effective connectivity to cloud-hosted services through Direct Connect or Express Route circuits, significantly undercutting cloud provider elastic IP charges.

Fortifying Multi-Cloud Security

Beyond cost and efficiency, integrating a holistic security posture through the operator network, from office to data center to cloud, is crucial for modern applications. insidepacket simplifies multi-cloud security by providing a unified layer that transcends varying cloud vendor protocols and upgrade cycles. This enables:   

• Consistent security policies, decoupled from rapid application development.
• Simplified secure employee access across clouds, enforcing uniform privilege controls and preventing unauthorized entry.

Seizing the Multi-Cloud Opportunity

The evolving multi-cloud landscape, exemplified by Google Cloud’s acquisition of Wiz, offers both challenges and significant opportunities for network and data center providers. insidepacket’s technology empowers operators to bridge critical gaps in enterprise multi-cloud strategies by providing seamless onboarding, comprehensive visibility, substantial cost optimization, and robust security. By leveraging insidepacket’s solutions, operators can enable enterprises to realize the full potential of their multi-cloud deployments with agility, security, and cost-effectiveness.

Ready to transform your multi-cloud strategy? Contact us at naas@insidepacket.com to learn more.