New In-Depth Analysis and Futuriom Report Find
Aviatrix Customers are Achieving Measurable ROI by Addressing Core
Cloud Networking Challenges
SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
June 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/
-- Aviatrix®, the cloud networking
expert, today unveiled results of a rigorous analysis of
real-world cloud cost savings of a leading global retail
customer. In addition to a $25
million in hard dollar savings in data processing compared
to native constructs, an analysis of the added costs of full-time
employee hiring avoidance and reduced risk of cloud network cyber
incidents revealed significant estimated added savings.
Echoing this analysis, a new report this week, "Driving Cloud
Automation with Observability, AIOps, and NetDevOps," from leading
cloud technology analyst firm Futuriom, said: "In interviews with
Aviatrix customers, we have found they are using the Aviatrix
multicloud networking (MCN) platform to combine and automate cloud
functions including MCN, Network Address Translation (NAT) gateway
services, and Distributed Cloud Firewall (DCF) security services to
achieve a measurable ROI. With a distributed, integrated approach,
Aviatrix has demonstrated with customers that it can reduce overall
cloud compute, network, and security costs."
Aviatrix's groundbreaking approach to cloud networking is rooted
in an expansive understanding of the evolution of networking – from
privately-owned data centers filled with specialized hardware to
the era of virtualization and cloud computing. Coupled with
unparalleled depth of technical expertise within each of the
leading cloud service providers (CSPs), Aviatrix is uniquely
capable of enabling enterprises to streamline cloud and networking
operations, garner visibility and control, and create business
scalability and agility.
The Evolution of Networking
Prior to the mid-2010s, organizations were tethered to complex,
device-heavy data centers, demanding significant management but
offering granular control and rich functionality. The introduction
of software defined networking (SDN) sought to streamline this with
software on standard hardware – challenging due to entrenched
vendor loyalties and departures from traditional IT models. A shift
to CSPs in 2015 promised scalability and resilience, compelling
enterprises to migrate to cloud-specific applications. However, as
users encountered disparate cloud vendors, they also had to use
corresponding networking solutions (load-balancers, security
solutions, etc.), from different vendors. This ultimately
resulted in a disjointed cloud networking stack – a significant
shift from the cohesive control once possible in private data
centers.
The historical perspective has led to three core networking
challenges in the new cloud landscape that successful enterprises
must navigate today:
- The C * S Problem – As the number of cloud and data center
providers (C) and networking services within each cloud (S) grows,
the complexity of managing and integrating them also rises
multifold. This leads to a more fragmented and cumbersome
networking environment, making it difficult for customers to
achieve seamless interoperability and efficient network
management.
Aviatrix addresses this challenge by offering "network of one"
simplicity – tapping the full range of networking services across
each provider, without requiring additional vendor dependence, and
full-time employees with provider and service-specific technical
expertise to manage the network.
- Lack of Granularity & Control – Third-party cloud
providers needed to control the entire networking stack and want to
streamline complexities for the user's sake, in the name of
simplicity. However, this control also introduces a level of
opaqueness, especially in the granularity of data flows and APIs,
that can prove challenging for operations teams – from management
to troubleshooting.
Aviatrix delivers a robust routing data plane to their customers,
putting fine-grained context back in the hands of enterprise cloud
and networking teams. Its interface, CoPilot, makes full
visibility possible in and across clouds, empowering
troubleshooting and improving security.
- Inefficient Cloud Cost Structures – Cloud network data
processing and egress fees are a material component of cloud costs.
They are both difficult to understand and inflexible. These cost
structures not only hinder scalability and data portability for
enterprises, but also provide decreasing returns to scale as cloud
data volume increases which can impact organizations' bandwidth. By
using IT budget for baseline cloud provider networking
infrastructure, enterprises are constrained in their investments in
the strategic, higher-level services CSPs provide, such as AI or
large language models (LLMs).
Aviatrix enables enterprises to streamline their hard costs and
soft costs, creating scalability and business agility. By reducing
dependency on native constructs, organizations also improve their
power and freedom to leverage resources across providers.
Leading Retailer Savings Analysis
In the detailed analysis of its leading retail customer,
Aviatrix demonstrated several areas of hard dollar and potential
cost savings based on solving these core networking challenges.
- By solving the C * S Problem Aviatrix found it was able to save
the customer $400,000 in cloud
network full-time employee hiring avoidance based on projected
growth of the retailer's cloud footprint. As organizations
increasingly struggle to find and hire candidates with the
necessary cloud skills for their initiatives, there are unspecified
additional hard and soft costs associated with finding and
retaining these employees that were not quantified in this
analysis.
- Giving granularity and control back to the retailer translated
into a $210 million+ potential risk avoidance of cloud network
cyber incidents, when estimated in line with data from the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
- Addressing inefficient cloud cost structures, Aviatrix
calculated a total of $25 million
annual savings ($30 million in
savings, less Aviatrix annual costs of $5
million) from network data processing costs over
cloud-specific constructs. It also found an estimated $5 million in projected cost avoidance in the
form of 4,500 added NAT gateways. These savings can now be
reallocated to higher order services like AI and LLMs.
"Aviatrix was founded on a deep understanding of the networking
industry's history and a vision to the future where cloud is
business-critical – a tradition we're proud to continue with the
top innovators in the field that comprise our team today," said
Doug Merritt, Chief Executive
Officer at Aviatrix. "We are at a tipping point where many
enterprises are realizing the complexities that come with
leveraging a needed hybrid landscape of multiple clouds, owned data
centers and critical edge networking deployments. They need both
the deep and unique technical capabilities we have been developing
as well as a more predictable and affordable cloud networking
landscape. It's exciting to see the volume and scale of companies
joining this movement and achieving the cost and risk benefits that
our customers are familiar with as pioneers in cloud networking.
Cloud networking professionals are seizing this moment to help
their organizations increase their cloud networking efficiencies
for a multitude of benefits, including lowering costs to help fund
the wave of generative AI initiatives that organizational leaders
are demanding."
To see the full analysis of Aviatrix's retail customer, view the
case study here. To download Futuriom's report, "Driving Cloud
Automation with Observability, AIOps, and NetDevOps," visit this
link. You can learn more about the Aviatrix Cloud Networking
Platform on https://aviatrix.com.
About Aviatrix
Aviatrix® is the cloud networking expert.
We're on a mission to make cloud networking simple so companies
stay agile. Trusted by more than 500 of the world's leading
enterprises, our cloud networking platform creates the visibility,
security, and control needed to adapt with ease and move ahead at
speed. Combined with the Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE)
Program, the industry's leading multicloud networking and security
certification, Aviatrix empowers the cloud networking community to
stay at the forefront of digital transformation. Learn more
at www.aviatrix.com.
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