Better to Go Under the Cloud than Over It

When it comes to providing layer 4-7 network services such as server load balancing, firewalls and VPNs to their customers, cloud service providers (CSPs) have two deployment options to choose from: an over the cloud approach and an under the cloud model. Ideally, CSPs would offer network services under the cloud, but until today, limitations in current networking hardware and virtual appliance products on the market made it a real challenge.  They’ve been stuck going over the cloud.

If they go over the cloud, they essentially take some functionality and bolt it on over the cloud infrastructure they can offer (compute and storage).  It is not built for the cloud or the CSP business model.  All of the complexity falls in the lap of the service provider’s customer. 

By leveraging heleos for the on-demand delivery of high-performance layer 4-7 network services, CSPs now have the much more effective and differentiated option – one that is optimized for the cloud.

heleos-powered virtual network services are designed to clearly provide the cloud functionality with all of the agility, dynamic provisioning, elasticity, scale-out performance, multi-tenancy and cost savings the cloud promises – something you can’t get anywhere else.