Connect to the cloud
For organisations whose cloud is now running the business, the connection into it is too important to be left to whatever was quick at the time. We make it a managed, secured and continuously assured part of the estate – consistent across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.
Your cloud got designed.
The connection to it didn't.
Most organisations have moved meaningful workloads to cloud. AWS, Azure, GCP. Sometimes one, often several. Applications, data and services that the business now depends on, running outside the four walls that used to define the network.
The workloads themselves are usually well-designed. The cloud team has done its work. The environments are up. The business is running on them.
But the connection back to the rest of the business often wasn’t designed. It was deferred, defaulted, or left to evolve. In most cases the answer is “it goes over the internet.” It works. Until a workload scales, an auditor asks, or a performance incident exposes the fact that nobody owns the path.
What happens when the connection
is nobody's responsibility
Problems with no obvious common cause.
Application performance is “fine, mostly,” with occasional slowdowns no one can root-cause because there’s no telemetry on the path. A migration programme stalls because connectivity wasn’t planned alongside the workload, and now nobody owns the question of how the cloud reaches the rest of the estate. An auditor asks how data moves between your cloud environment and your on-premise systems and the answer is hard to evidence. A health technology company or a GovTech ISV realises their cloud-hosted product can’t reach NHS or government customers without a connection to HSCN or PSN.
The connection is the bit that wasn’t designed. It’s also the bit that, once designed properly, opens transformational value.
Where the conversations usually start
A cloud migration in progress
The workloads are moving. The cloud team has the design. The network team hasn’t been formally involved. The question of how the new environment connects back to the existing estate has been deferred, and is now approaching the point where it can’t be.
An existing connectivity programme that didn't plan for cloud
An SD-WAN, HSCN, PSN or DC Interconnect engagement that’s surfaced the cloud endpoint as an unaddressed gap. The wider programme can’t complete until the cloud part of the path is built.
A technology company needing to reach a regulated network
A health tech or GovTech ISV with a cloud-hosted product. The commercial requirement is to reach NHS or government customers. That requires a compliant connection from cloud to HSCN or PSN. Without the connection, the product can’t reach its market.
AI workloads with no governed path
AI-enabled applications create new data flows between cloud and on-premise systems, with volumes and sensitivity the existing connection wasn’t designed for. No SLA on the path. No inspection of what’s moving. No evidence of where the data has been.
A compliance or audit question at the cloud boundary
DSPT, NIS2, DORA, ISO 27001. Assessors are increasingly asking for evidenced controls at the boundary between cloud and on-premise, not just at the perimeter. The next assessment is approaching and the answers need to hold up.
Workloads live on the internet, until they couldn't be
The cloud environment is up and running over public internet. It’s worked. Then performance becomes unpredictable, or a security review asks what’s actually happening on the path, or compliance pressure starts asking how the data gets there.
Let's Connect
Business Connect:
Cloud
Managed private connectivity between your cloud environments and the rest of your estate. Native connections through AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute and Google Cloud Interconnect, with managed VPN where appropriate. Monitored, governed and operated as part of the wider platform.
Add what you need, when you need it
Business Everywhere:
DC interconnect
for cloud environments connecting back to data centres, particularly during migration programmes
Business Everywhere:
SD-WAN
for cloud connectivity that has to reach sites, branches or a wider network estate
Business Everywhere:
Remote Access
for cloud environments that need to be reached by users connecting from anywhere
Secure Internet
Access
for inspecting and controlling internet egress that runs alongside the cloud path
Business Connect:
HSCN / PSN
for organisations whose cloud-hosted product needs to reach regulated networks
Managed
Firewall
for securing and governing traffic at the cloud boundary
Common questions about
cloud connectivity
Whose responsibility is the connection between our cloud and everything else?
In many organisations, responsibility is split (or lost) between cloud teams, network teams and one or more suppliers, with no single owner. That grey area is where cost, risk and gaps in accountability tend to accumulate. Consolidating private cloud connectivity under one managed service resolves this issue.
Will our current cloud setup support AI and heavier workloads?
Often the compute is ready before the connection is. AI and data-heavy workloads change the volume, latency and assurance you need from the path into cloud, so it is worth pressure-testing the connection before the workload lands, not after.
We're operating multi-cloud. Does that make this harder?
It makes consistency the issue. Different providers, connections and controls become several things to run separately. One platform across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud turns that back into one thing to manage and evidence.
Connect. Protect. Observe. Operated as one.
Get your regulated connectivity right first time.