As Corporate Network Perimeters Fade, Hybrid Cloud Visibility Is Essential

Businesses today are awash in workflows. As those workflows move to multiple clouds and the traditional corporate network perimeter begins to fade, enterprise IT professionals are finding it increasingly difficult to achieve complete control and visibility of data flows and the network traffic they bring in. The simple reality is that more than 70 percent of enterprises are now using a hybrid cloud strategy (a mix of on-premises infrastructure, private clouds, and public cloud services). This distributed nature complicates network management and visibility, making it difficult to maintain a holistic view of operations.

On top of that, 63 percent of enterprise applications are built using microservices and containerized architectures.  This can lead to blind spots in network traffic. And a lack of centralized visibility can hinder threat detection and response efforts, leaving organizations vulnerable to attacks. With approximately 39 percent of security threats happening on cloud platforms, it is clear why there is a need for comprehensive network visibility to identify and mitigate security risks.

This level of complexity opens the door to network disruptions and security breaches that can negatively impact revenue, costs, and employee productivity. In addition, anything that degrades network performance can also lead to regulatory compliance issues, loss of customer trust, and damage to business reputation. All of this points to the need for implementing next-gen visibility strategies. However, any strategy must have the ability to fill in any blind spots, or failure will inevitably ensue.

Enhanced Visibility into Hybrid and Multicloud Environments Is Crucial

For many enterprises, a lack of centralized visibility hinders response efforts, increasing mean time to respond (MTTR) whenever a threat or degradation to the network occurs. Distributed architectures, commonly associated with hybrid and multicloud environments, make it difficult to identify and pinpoint the source of problems. Most organizations today optimize for visibility into north-south traffic, which is from endpoints to the cloud. But the east-west traffic that is occurring within the cloud environment presents a significant blind spot.

Next-gen solutions must offer enhanced visibility to ensure nothing goes undetected, enabling IT to protect the entire infrastructure and shortening MTTR. To accomplish this, solutions will need to incorporate comprehensive intelligence across the entirety of the digital architecture to gain a holistic view of the ecosystem. To close blind spots, an advanced solution will achieve enhanced visibility into hybrid and multicloud environments through the use of deep packet inspection (DPI), artificial intelligence (AI)-driven analytics, and metadata extraction. This approach will deliver critically needed insights into what is happening within the enterprise network across the multicloud architecture in a single pane of glass.

By providing observability across diverse environments —including different vendor environments—enterprises can effectively reduce rampant tool sprawl. A next-gen visibility solution that accomplishes this level of observability into different types of data lakes and the interoperability of applications can enhance overall monitoring and analysis of the network over time, which is essential for delivering on promised return on investment (ROI).

Why a Visibility Without Borders Strategy Is Key

NETSCOUT’s Visibility Without Borders platform delivers the visibility throughout the enterprise that is needed to manage the complexity of today’s infrastructures. This means visibility across any enterprise, any cloud, any network, any infrastructure, for any application, with any user—whether customers, employees, or business partners—wherever they are accessing the environment.

NETSCOUT observability solutions are vendor-independent, leveraging DPI at scale to see across the environment—from the data center to the cloud, at a colocation, or with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider—to detect performance issues and security risks.

By conducting proactive ecosystemwide visibility and analysis, enterprises can pinpoint issues that cause errors and latency, impact quality of service, and indicate security threats. This true next-gen visibility can also be used to ensure compliance with regulatory regimes.

NETSCOUT’s solutions deliver multidimensional visibility, enabling SecOps, NetOps, and AIOps teams to collaborate and share data with different vendors to close blind spots. These powerful solutions reveal problems within the environment faster, thus eliminating finger-pointing, which only serves to prolong the process of resolving problems. When it comes to solving the critically important challenges of keeping network performance running at peak and all systems secure, NETSCOUT is unmatched. This is validated in the 2025 Frost & Sullivan report on the global next-generation visibility platform industry, which you can read here.

Clearly, NETSCOUT’s next-gen visibility solution is the right one for supporting bottom-line business objectives.

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