Solving multicloud challenges: 3 real-world success stories

While expanding its business into China, a leading global retailer and processor of agricultural goods was struggling to reckon with convoluted regulatory requirements in the region. Because of this enterprise’s global presence in Asia, Europe, the United States and Latin America, it was crucial that policy configurations were consistent across the entire business.

These regulatory difficulties risked disrupting the company’s local applications in both this new territory and their existing sites, and using multiple software-defined networks (SD-WANs) from different vendors made it more difficult to resolve these issues quickly.

This company’s struggle to navigate local and regional regulations is common amongst global enterprises - 75 percent of all countries have implemented some level of data localization rules, which can lead to significant expansion difficulties without expert guidance.¹

Consistent global service levels

Singtel worked closely with this enterprise to consolidate all of its regional partnerships into a single service level agreement (SLA), to ease their transition into China and eliminate any further expansion problems in future. To bring consistency to the organisation’s global network, Singtel also implemented a customised network architecture to simplify the company’s global network and streamline its service across all locations.

Find out more about how Singtel helped this company expand into new territory without neglecting its global network or disrupting expansion plans.

A global chemicals and consumer goods manufacturer was left with significant network complexity and service incompatibilities after migrating to an Internet-based wide-area network (WAN). This left the enterprise grappling with multiple cloud service providers with varying service level agreements (SLAs), and the company was struggling to achieve stable, consistent and reliable networking across its globally distributed sites.

This inconsistency drastically restricted the company’s network visibility and its ability to monitor different sites for issues, which led to increased implementation, hardware, and service costs to keep its network running smoothly.

Achieving full network visibility is an issue for many international enterprises. Research cited by TechTarget suggests that only 18% of organisations believe that their current network management strategies provide effective network visibility.²

Integrated cloud-ready networking

Singtel’s managed service team collaborated with this enterprise to create a customised SDWAN solution using universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) to streamline their hardware needs and optimise network traffic. To solve their visibility issues, Singtel implemented an integrated Network Intelligence as a Service (NIaaS) model which simplified its multicloud connections and brought efficiency back to the network.

Read the full case study to discover how this company overcame their rocky network migration to achieve full visibility and simplified networking.

This multinational cosmetics company wanted to simplify its multicloud provisioning and management after migrating to a hybrid cloud environment. However, the complexities of managing a variety of applications from multiple cloud providers, as well as using both cloud and terrestrial communications opened this company up to significant network inefficiencies and cloud security vulnerabilities.

Untangling convoluted hybrid cloud architectures will become an increasingly common challenge in enterprise networking. According to Accenture research, most enterprises (82-92%) are using 5 different clouds on average, which (as was the case with this company) can cause confusion and fragmented networking if left unchecked.³

Achieving a seamless multicloud architecture

Singtel’s software-defined network service (SD-Connect) helped this company to simplify its multicloud communications by uniting its cloud services into a single architecture. This also provided the enterprise with a single dashboard to manage its multicloud connections without the hassle of coordinating a range of different vendor portals and APIs that could have opened up network gaps and blindspots.

Learn how gaining access to a simplified, scalable, and secure hybrid cloud solution gave this enterprise peace of mind when navigating complex multicloud environments.

By working with Singtel to optimise their networks according to their needs, these enterprises were able to overcome significant challenges - from inconsistent service to mismatched multicloud setups and network expansion. More than just overcoming these obstacles, however, these companies leveraged the experience of a cloud-centric managed service provider to achieve new levels of network efficiency and regain their competitive advantage.

To find out more about how Singtel can overcome the most challenging network obstacles and optimise your cloud communications, get in touch today to discuss your requirements.