Juniper Cloud Interlink

Juniper Cloud Interlink, an AI-powered software solution incubated in Juniper Beyond Labs, seamlessly connects applications across hybrid and multicloud networks at scale, enabling the best experiences possible.

Enterprises are shifting their applications and data to the cloud to enhance scalability and resilience and accelerate their digital transformation. Driven by diverse needs related to application functionality, commercial factors, and other considerations, they often choose varied cloud environments and locations, including public, private, hybrid, and centralized or edge settings. As a result, these enterprises often face challenges in integrating multiple applications and services spread across different cloud locations while meeting application and network service level expectations (SLEs).

Juniper Cloud Interlink simplifies hybrid and multicloud networking significantly by streamlining the deployment and management of applications and services. Benefits include:

• Common administration for faster rollout of applications and services: By adopting a common administration platform, organizations can accelerate their rollout processes using a single pane of glass to manage connectivity across hybrid and multicloud deployments. This eliminates the need to stitch together various tools—whether homegrown or from cloud providers. Furthermore, centrally managed access control policies provide the ability to enforce consistent security postures regardless of where the data or applications reside. For example, Cloud Interlink allows for enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications running on a public cloud to access a database on a private cloud hosted in the enterprise—all while blocking any outbound traffic from the same database.

• Assure consistent experiences and improve MTTR: By eliminating the silos that can often slow down troubleshooting and repair, Cloud Interlink’s unified approach helps assure network and application SLEs across different environments when issues arise. Leveraging AI-Native proactive anomaly detection, Cloud Interlink can continuously monitor and identify any deviations or abnormal behavior with respect to latency, jitter, packet loss, etc., in real time before they escalate into more severe problems. Furthermore, immediate root cause discovery enables swift identification of the underlying issues causing the detected anomalies. This immediacy in pinpointing the problem areas reduces the time spent in diagnosing issues, thereby improving mean time to resolution (MTTR).

• Consistent security posture to reduce attack surface:  Cloud Interlink embedded security tools enable Zero Trust across multicloud environments. Not restricted to the embedded security tools, enterprises have the liberty to augment their security posture by incorporating third-party firewalls.

• Cost analytics and optimization to lower cloud spend: Cloud Interlink cost analytics and optimization tools allow organizations to gain visibility into their cloud networking spend, helping them identify inefficiencies and optimize resource allocation. This not only helps to prevent budget overruns but also aids identifying potential savings opportunities. In addition, cloud capacity optimization based on SLEs ensures resources are neither overprovisioned or underutilized, striking the perfect balance between performance and cost.

Cloud Interlink is relevant for enterprises and service providers who are seeking innovative solutions to streamline and simplify multicloud connectivity for their customers while maintaining the highest standards of user experience.