The brink Multi-Cloud Networking Solution

The brink of MCNS stands out by enabling a cloud-native network's design, deployment, and operation in multiple public cloud environments. Enterprises can deploy brink Multi-Cloud networking solutions in one or multiple public cloud environments and extend the software to support edge locations and private data centers. Multi-Cloud Network Solution products enable consistent network policy, security, governance, and visibility across multiple cloud environments via a single management point, offering a unique and comprehensive solution.

The brink Multi-Cloud Networking Solution is a versatile tool designed to meet a variety of needs, from traffic routing to secure ingress/egress, and seamless integration with available public cloud. Its user-friendly delivery of robust software that can be self-managed or delivered as a service makes it user-friendly. It's also accessible via application programming interfaces (APIs) and user interfaces (UIs), catering to different user preferences. The use of overlays and agents, along with the orchestration of native cloud provider capabilities, further enhances its flexibility and ease of use.

Key Findings:

Enterprises deploy Multi-Cloud networking software, such as the brink MCNS, to effectively address network shortcomings in the public cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service environments. These include a lack of advanced features and consistent management at scale, which the brink MCNS is specifically designed to overcome, providing reassurance about its effectiveness.

Despite being called "Multi-Cloud" networking software, enterprises can deploy it in single-cloud and Multi-Cloud environments.

Virtual routers and virtual appliances offered by traditional network vendors often fail to meet the requirements of cloud and DevOps teams, particularly in programmability, integration, or flexible licensing.

Technology

Connect Apps, Services & Cloud Networks

Redundancy & Failover across regions & cloud

Micro-Segmentation – Apps & Cloud Networks

Visibility for cloud apps, services & networks

Zero-Touch for cloud workloads & networks

MCNS Is Not Just vRouters

Most established network and Layer 3 through Layer 7 appliance vendors offer virtual versions of their products that can be installed in multiple cloud environments, including on-premises and within public cloud environments. So, that begs the question for Multi-Cloud networking software, "Isn't this just vRouters or vAppliances?" The answer is subtle. Clients often use these virtual routers for basic VPN connectivity from on-premises to a public cloud environment. However, clients tell us that they rarely meet their needs when they try to extend these vRouters beyond basic VPN use cases to support broader networking requirements. Clients relate that they are not "cloudlike,"which is due to several factors:

Lack of cloud awareness/integration

The products aren’t aware of native cloud functionality, such as services, regions, or availability zones. They reside in a public cloud environment but do not dynamically interact with surrounding services.

Limited Adaptability

Although an API may exist, the usability, support, documentation, or functionality falls short of what cloud teams need from an automation/orchestration perspective.

Limited experience

The vendors’ sales teams, channels, technical support teams, and/or technical documentation lack reference customers and/or experience regarding usage in a true cloud environment.

Licensing

The products’ costs, licensing models, and/or commercial terms don’t align with the cloud team's desire for low-friction access, variable and unpredictable consumption, or self-service.

Performance limitations

For example, bandwidth or throughput.

The brink’s Recommendation to Infrastructure and Operations Leaders:

Leaders of the enterprises responsible for cloud and edge infrastructure should:

It is crucial for infrastructure and operations leaders to fully exploit the benefits of public cloud providers by using their native abilities when starting. This strategic approach is more effective than simply 'forklifting' traditional networking strategies into the public cloud, educating leaders about its potential.

For a more robust networking experience within the public cloud, we recommend deploying the brink Multi-Cloud networking solutions. This is especially beneficial when advanced networking features and a consistent network operations model are required across multiple public cloud environments. Take the next step towards enhancing your networking capabilities with the brink of MCNS.

Optimize investments in Multi-Cloud networking solutions by adopting brink Multi-Cloud networking solutions, choosing lightweight, "cloud-fluent" products with robust and well-documented APIs, and allowing trials before purchase.

Enable flexibility to address changing needs by making short-term brink Multi-Cloud networking solutions investments by choosing consumption-based pricing or a one-time pricing model.

Key Drivers To Adopt brink’s Multi-Cloud Networking Solutions (MCNS):

Enterprises looking to invest in Multi-Cloud networking solutions on traditional virtual routers and virtual appliances often note specific challenges…

Administrative overheads

I have to open 28 browser tabs to make a simple change, such as an access control list (ACL).

Bandwidth Limitations

I can only get 1 Gbps via a VPN tunnel, and I need more.

Full Networking Stack

I want to manage connectivity/routing, Domain Name System (DNS), CDN, load balancing and web application firewall (WAF) from one place, not via disparate point features from separate providers.

Advanced network routing

My cloud provider doesn’t support encrypted peering, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route encryption, or BGP route approval.

Inconsistency across providers

I have to use different consoles and terminology to provision and troubleshoot applications in Alibaba, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, versus Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Use-Case Name	Primary Driver of MCNS Usage	Enterprise Interest Trends
Single Public Cloud	Enhance network features or improve operations within a single public cloud provider.	Growing Rapidly
Multi-Cloud	Consistent Management and operations across multiple public cloud providers.	Growing Rapidly
Public Cloud Extended	Extending the MCNS network features and operational management model used within the public cloud environments to non-cloud locations. Non-cloud locations include edge networks (supporting compute edge and gateway edge locations), data center networks, and colocation facilities.	Growing Rapidly
Application Focused	Provide a broad set of networking and security features (including layer 3 through layer 7) for a specific application or set of applications.	Growing
Application Focused	Provide a broad set of networking and security features (including layer 3 through layer 7) for a specific application or set of applications.	Growing

The brinks motivates the Saudi Market Directions to adopt Public Clouds:

Most Saudi enterprises and organizations are making substantial commitments to modernizing public cloud infrastructure, driving innovation, and enabling new businesses. As enterprises add new applications and scale existing ones into the public cloud, the shortcomings of native cloud providers become more apparent. Hence, the brink's Multi-Cloud networking solutions (MCNS) bring a richer set of features of cloud-native networking that address all the shortcomings of data center networking, a cloud platform, or SD-WAN.

The MCNS can be delivered as a stand-alone product offering broader product suites that address data center networking, cloud-native networking, and SD-WAN capabilities. In the future, brinks expect the Saudi Market to converge on infrastructure services, such as network security, layer 3 connectivity, policy management, observability and visibility, and app-to-app private link connectivity over the overlay network in a more cloud-native orientation, e.g., service-mesh, application security, ingress/egress functions, FinOps)

Key Buying Criteria:

Network functionality (i.e., core and advanced networking features in a cloud-native environment)
Cloud-Native Fluency and Integration – the ability to dynamically interact with environments it is in
Security Functionality
Programmability and automation
Low Friction of acquisition
Scale of cloud environments supported
Tools integration (i.e., automation and ticketing)
Cost and licensing models
Operational Models – i.e., as a service versus do-it-yourself (DIY)
Robust troubleshooting tools with observability and visibility with, FinOps capabilities.

The brink’s Multcloud Networking Solutions

Unleash the power of Multi-Cloud connectivity …..

At our Multi-Cloud connectivity business, we connect the clouds, connecting the world. We empower businesses with stable Multi-Cloud connectivity, unlocking limitless possibilities. With our expertise, businesses can elevate their cloud experience and achieve their goals faster than ever.

Control & Management Plane

Multi-Tenant SaaS Control-Plane

Cloud Asset Discovery (VPCs, Networks, Apps)

Cloud APIs Integration

Centralized Configuration & Policy Management

Observability & Recommendation - ML/Telemetry

Data Plane

Provision in Customer Cloud VPCs, VNETs

Datapath support – Reverse Proxy, Tunneling & Native IP Packet with Auto-Scaling

On-Prem Datacenter connectors support to transport the IP traffic

Motivation

Multi-Cloud Networking simplification with 90% Rapid deployment with modern principles app2app micro-segmentation & cloud native

Sustainability

The brinks MCNS Architecture is Carbon-efficient and leads to over 15x less CO2 emission due to the autoscaling feature.

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