The twin trends of mobility and the cloud based business applications have rendered the traditional ‘hub and spoke’ network architecture inefficient and expensive. To be effective, companies need to adopt a new paradigm to network architecture – a Direct-to-Cloud network.
Zscaler’s Direct-to-Cloud network enables users to access the internet and cloud applications from anywhere, anytime, using any device while ensuring security and compliance with corporate policies and providing IT administrators complete visibility and control over user traffic.
One area of that is ripe for change is network architecture. Traditionally, organisation’s stored their data and applications at a central datacenter, and most user traffic was to access said corporate data. Organisations used a ‘hub and spoke’ architecture whereby remote offices were connected back to the central office (datacenter) and all network traffic flowed to and then out of the central office.
Today, with companies hosting their data and business applications in the cloud, and users becoming increasingly mobile, it is estimated that over 80% of corporate traffic is internet bound. The very idea of channeling all of the network traffic to a central office only to send the traffic out to the cloud, and back out to the remote office or mobile device is extremely inefficient. As in other forms of communication and transportation, the shortest distance between two points remains a straight line.
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