Security News > 2021 > June > Multi-cloud transit enhances app experience but brings complexity and security challenges

Sapio Research conducted a survey of more than 400 IT leaders at U.S.-based organizations with more than 1000 employees which offers a picture for enterprises transitioning to the cloud and multi-cloud so that they understand the challenges and are empowered to make informed decisions about cloud networking and security.

The results show that while multi-cloud transit can dramatically improve network latency, the move to multi-cloud also introduces significant complexity and security challenges.

Multi-cloud is the clear performance winner: for user-to-app connectivity, multi-cloud was shown to reduce network latency across 45% more paths than single cloud alone, while improving performance by up to 55% per path, compared to network-centric connectivity like VPN and SD-WAN. Enterprises agree that outstanding app experience is key for business success.

While 93% of organizations agree that application experience is important for the overall success of the business, 64% find they are unable to offer the same level of experience to everyone, while 47% report it is impossible to keep up with the diversity of the application and user landscape.

Security and complexity remain critical challenges for multi-cloud transit.

To address this problem, many enterprise security teams have turned to VPNs or inserting security vendor SaaS services to enforce user and application security policies.

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