CDM-CYBER-DEFENSE-eMAGAZINE-March-2019
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load balancers capable of integrating with advanced security products can increase efficiency and<br />
strengthen defenses.<br />
3. Centralized Management<br />
Centralized management eliminates the need to log in to individual load balancers. There you can see<br />
the entire application stack within a single pane of glass. Public clouds allow the application stack to run<br />
across multiple regions. Centralized management allows application traffic to be managed across all<br />
regions within a single console. This provides both efficiency and easy manageability.<br />
Advanced load balancers integrate with centralized management. Central management of policies is<br />
even more valuable when load balancers are deployed across multiple clouds. This power adds<br />
centralized visibility and analytics of the environment. The centralized analytics correlates data coming<br />
from various sites. This facilitates actionable insights across the entire environment.<br />
Observations from one site, especially related to cyber security attacks, can be used for proactive actions<br />
on other sites. For example, a cyber attacker is identified at one site they can be blocked at all sites from<br />
a central console.<br />
4. Automation and Multi-Cloud Integration<br />
More than 70 percent of organizations have a multi-cloud environment. Any technology they adopt today<br />
must integrate across the entire environment. This includes public clouds, private clouds, data centers,<br />
and bare-metal servers. This requirement applies to choosing a load balancer.<br />
It’s important that load balancers have APIs for integration. Many enterprises have already<br />
implemented continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines. Load balancers need to integrate with<br />
DevOps toolchain and infrastructure platforms.<br />
Full integration is achieved only when API calls are possible in all directions. DevOps tools can call the<br />
load balancer API. Load balancer can call the external API in case of an alert or event.<br />
5. Containers and Container-Orchestration Integration<br />
The industry is adopting containers and container orchestration systems. According to a recent survey<br />
by 451 Research, 71% of enterprises are either using or evaluating options like Kubernetes and Docker.<br />
Applications are moving from monolithic to a micro service architecture. Deployments are migrating from<br />
traditional hardware servers with virtual machines running on the cloud, to containers running on multiple<br />
environments.<br />
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