Application centric – how the cloud has changed the way we deploy, secure and connect
The cloud has brought a new model for how we deploy applications. In the enterprise everything was put on the same network, ‘the intranet’. People claimed that things were safe there because they were, ‘behind the firewall’. It was easy to build a spaghetti of interconnections because everything could talk to everything. Cloud has changed all of that. At first it was just lonely virtual machines fending for themselves on the Internet, but now we have virtual private clouds (VPCs) and a multitude of ways to connect to them. Pretty much nobody has built a cloud intranet. The cloud is used to host applications, and each application gets its own security and connectivity. We’re moving to an application centric world.
Cohesive Networks CTO Chris Swan spoke at the 2015 Internet and Mobile World. His talk, "Application centric – how the cloud has changed the way we deploy, secure and connect" presented on Day 2 10:15 - 11:00.
The cloud has brought a new model for how we deploy applications. In the enterprise everything was put on the same network, ‘the intranet’. People claimed that things were safe there because they were, ‘behind the firewall’. It was easy to build a spaghetti of interconnections because everything could talk to everything. Cloud has changed all of that. At first it was just lonely virtual machines fending for themselves on the Internet, but now we have virtual private clouds (VPCs) and a multitude of ways to connect to them. Pretty much nobody has built a cloud intranet. The cloud is used to host applications, and each application gets its own security and connectivity. We’re moving to an application centric world.