Restoring Visibility into the "Cloud" with Route Analytics

Cloud computing leverages the ubiquity of the Internet, the flexibility of server virtualization, and the massive scale of today's data centers to provide low-cost IT infrastructure as a network-based service. But enterprises are rightly concerned with how to manage infrastructure that resides on the Internet. While much industry attention has been paid to systems, applications, storage and security issues, relatively little has been directed to the network management challenges of cloud computing. To ensure reliable application delivery, network managers need visibility into the routing and traffic dynamics spanning enterprise and Internet domains. This paper explains the issues and offers a solution to managing cloud services.