Organizations are pushing for a single networking construct that can run not only between public clouds but also back to the datacenter and increasingly out to the edge, Mani Ganesan, head of products at Prosimo, tells The Next Platform. How do you instrument a single, consistent architecture that makes it happen? Enterprises that we’re speaking to are more and more strongly for that because the default approach mainly says, ‘Let me take what I know in the datacenter and try to replicate that’ or ‘Let me go to a native construct and let me try and build it on my own.’ Both things are doable, but as it gets to a certain point of scale, operationally and from a cost perspective, that’s really where the pain is coming from.” “You’ve got one VPC that may require connectivity to a specific application endpoint and you may have a past service that’s connected to a datacenter.

“There’s no interconnect that really exists to and across clouds,” Patel tells The Next Platform. Prosimo wants to enable enterprises to more quickly deliver services, reduce costs and reduce the friction that comes when running workloads in multiple clouds that may have different tools and policies, according to Mehul Patel, head of customer insights, intelligence and marketing at Prosimo. Fueling this are insights driven by machine learning techniques to streamline and automate operations, support diverse applications and networks and leverage cloud-native gateways, points of presence (POPs) and cloud backbones. The company this month is taking another step, introducing what it is calling its full-stack cloud transit concept that is driven by new features in its Network Transit and App Transit offerings to create a single architecture to manage their multicloud environments both in the cloud and in on-premises hybrid clouds that stretch back into the datacenter. Six months later, Prosimo added to AXI’s App Transit offering with such features as Fastlane and Autonomous Transit for improved performance and easy connectivity to cloud-native services like Amazon Web Services’ S3 cloud storage and RedShift data warehouse, Microsoft Azure Blob storage and Google Cloud’s BigQuery data warehouse.

The company in April 2021 introduced its Application eXperience Infrastructure (AXI), a platform aimed at pulling together networking, performance security, observability and cost management into a single infrastructure stack.

Startup Prosimo was launched in 2019 by the founders of software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) provider Viptela – which in 2017 was bought by Cisco Systems for $610 million – and brought in $25 million in funding a year ago, all with the goal of making networking in a multicloud world less complex.

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