As users, devices, and bandwidth requirements grow, your security vendor must scale with them. or fall behind.
Capacity planning is critical for both on-premise and cloud security solutions to prevent slowdowns or disruptions to your business. As time passes, your user count will typically increase as well as the bandwidth requirements of their devices and applications. 5G wireless technology will create a new generation of always-on, connected mobile users with high expectations for experience and performance. Additionally, more applications are moving to the cloud, with ever increasing complexity and performance requirements.
We all know the time and complexity involved in adding resources to co-located data centers. It can take months or even years to add capacity, refresh aging equipment, or expand to new locations, especially when specialized hardware and software is involved. If your vendor has not built a truly elastic solution, your business will suffer.
Can the vendor dynamically auto-scale? What is the timeline to double capacity in the geographic regions that matter to my business? How often has the vendor forced customers to fail over their traffic to a different region or datacenter due to a performance-related issue? Can traffic from other companies impact the performance of my business traffic? What happens if a large customer is onboarded in my region?
Is the vendor dependent on specialized hardware offload cards in order to perform SSL inspection? Regardless of how many points of presence the vendor advertises, how many are accessible and usable by my organization? Do any carry additional surcharges? Will the vendor be able to accommodate my bandwidth requirements as my locations gain access to faster broadband links?
According to the Global Digital Report 2019, only 57% of the world's population currently uses the internet in some capacity. that percentage seems bound to rise. As technology accelerates and accessibility increases, customers and vendors alike must be as agile as possible to meet demand.
Not every business will survive in a cloud-first world. Your security vendor needs to be able to scale with you. dynamically, without asking you to rack and stack, without forcing you to over-provision, and without exposing you to the capacity problems of their other customers. If they can't do that, they're not a cloud security vendor. They're a managed service provider using data center economics and calling it cloud.
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