Data Center Evolution Is Essential for Hybrid Network Architectures The Data Center Is Not Dead

Rapidly evolving business demands and a distributed workforce are driving the modernization of network designs. Hybrid architectures provide the agility and adaptability that today’s digital marketplace requires. However, this dynamic fusion of physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures is also changing how on-premises data centers are viewed in the topology.

Some believe this trend toward hybrid networks spells the end of the data center—and traditional data center security—but that could not be further from the truth. Adding cloud-distributed application delivery to existing data center infrastructures does not make data center firewall designs obsolete. The challenge is selecting a solution designed to scale and adapt as your data center evolves. Today’s data center firewalls need to detect and prevent inbound and outbound threats between the data center and the rest of the network, including campus, branch, multi-cloud, and remote user locations, and securely enable the rapid transfer of high volumes of traffic through business-critical applications.