Landscape of Cloud Integration

The happening thing in the IT world "THE CLOUD". Companies investing a heck a lot of money into Cloud infrastructure, Customers looking for ways to save on IT spending. The ROI and cost benefits are so lucrative in Cloud, the day is not far away that majority of Enterprise IT applications would be moved to Public cloud.

Based on the business needs, below are the Cloud models that customers can choose to distribute their Enterprise IT

1. Can choose multiple Cloud  providers and distribute their Enterprise IT, this is sort of distributed Cloud model.
2. Can have some of their Enterprise IT application on premise and some on public cloud, this is sort of a Hybrid Model.
3. Move completely to Public cloud provider.
4. Ask Cloud provider for their own designated space to host their application, this sort of Private Model.
5. Can have all their Applications on premise when they hit the capacity they would like to use Public cloud, its sort of Hybrid model .

With so many varieties of Cloud in play, there are huge opportunities for integration  .

Landscape of Integration

1. Firewall as Service

 To  integrate seamlessly your enterprise network and security in distributed Cloud environment.

2. Load balancing as Service.

To manage online traffic by distributing workloads across multiple servers and resources—automatically or on demand. 
To maximize your workload performance and help prevent overload to help give your users a seamless experience.

3. Middleware as Service

Middleware as service that connects  between the operating systems and the applications on each side of a distributed Cloud network.

4. Key vault as service

To protect sensitive data stored in distributed cloud networks and provide a key vault services for authentication keys, data encryption keys, storage account keys, PFX files & passwords.

5. Directory as Service.

 Cloud Based identity and access management IAM for Single/Federated sign-on for the Enterprise application across the cloud networks .