INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
WITH ADVANCES IN SOFTWARE-
DEFINED NETWORKING,
NETWORK FUNCTIONS
VIRTUALISATION, AND
ORCHESTRATION TOOLS, THE
DATA CENTRE NETWORK IS
BEING AUTOMATED TO PROVIDE
CONNECTIVITY IN REAL TIME
At a glance…
Commvault extends cloud
portability with AWS
Snowball Support
The application is also disaggregated, with the creation
of micro-services. This way, when thousands of people
use the same cloud application, such as Salesforce, each
person’s activity, whether it is approving a new hire or
opening a purchase order, kicks off its own workflow.
These application micro-services spin up and down to
meet demand.
Building networks for cloud scale
Cloud services are dynamic and elastic—and the
cloud network must keep pace.
In the past, applications were hardcoded to the
network. When a business unit needed a new
application or more capacity, IT had to make the
changes manually, configuring virtual LANs and
security policies using the command-line interface
of the routers or switches. In the best-case scenario,
changes would take hours—but days, weeks and even
months are the norm.
The cloud does not operate on human time. Cloud
services spin up and down in micro-seconds. With
advances in software-defined networking, network
functions virtualisation, and orchestration tools, the
data centre network is being automated to provide
connectivity in real time.
An opportunity for career growth
It’s an exciting time to be a network architect. We
are at the very beginning of network automation
and cloud data centres. New technologies are being
invented and there’s a lot to learn.
Network architects’ skills are evolving beyond mastery
of the command line interface, and as the walls
between the networking, server, and storage domains
break down, network architects have an opportunity
to take on a broader role in IT. It’s also an
opportunity to embrace DevOps, where IT becomes
more collaborative, highly iterative, and faster paced.
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Commvault has announced support of Amazon Web Services
(AWS) Snowball, a secure petabyte-scale data transport solution
to migrate large amounts of data into and out of the AWS Cloud.
Through its relationship with AWS, Commvault accelerates
workload portability and provides disaster recovery options in the
cloud increasing overall operational efficiency. This new support
enables faster migration of large amounts of data and eliminates
the bottlenecks of network and internet connections. This
announcement was made in conjunction with the AWS Summit in
Chicago, Illinois.
As enterprises accelerate the shift from traditional on-premises
infrastructures to the cloud as a strategic objective to transform
operations and increase overall business agility, many organisations
struggle to overcome the challenges associated with large-scale
data transfers, including high network costs, long transfer times, and
security concerns. By using AWS Snowball together with Commvault
software, customers can orchestrate the migrations of any size of
workload to the Amazon AWS Cloud faster, more efficiently, and
more securely than with a traditional internet connection.
“Through its support of AWS Snowball, Commvault is making it
easier and more cost effective for organisations with large data
volumes to facilitate migration, replication and recovery into the
AWS Cloud,” said Bill Vass, Vice President of Engineering, Amazon
Web Services Inc. “Commvault shares in our vision to give customers
differentiated options for mapping their journey to the cloud by
using AWS Snowball as a new alternative model for simplifying
cloud adoption and data transfer to increase overall operational
efficiencies, mobility and speed.”
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