When you think of compliance, what comes to mind? Maybe regulatory compliance, a challenge that elicits dread across the business?
Or perhaps service-level agreement (SLA) compliance? If you deal with cloud or network services, for example, meeting your SLAs can be as mission critical as regulatory compliance, as a failure may adversely impact customers, and with them, the bottom line.
In fact, compliance spans both these areas, and many more in between. You can think of compliance as an onion – an onion that has more layers than you might expect, as compliance means different things to different people. Even the regulatory context means something different for the CFO vs. the IT organization.
Beyond the Network SLA
From the perspective of the network, compliance typically refers to SLA compliance. SLAs predictably focus on network-oriented metrics: latency, jitter, and bandwidth in particular.
When wide-area networks (WANs) are included in the mix, balancing the SLA with the cost of delivering network services can exacerbate compliance challenges.
Such challenges, in fact, are one of the main reasons for the growth of the software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) market. SD-WANs can make policy-based routing decisions to maintain SLA compliance while simultaneously choosing the least expensive route – which today often means broadband Internet.
Read the entire article at https://www.sdwan.org/2017/12/19/application-context-network-compliance/.
Copyright © Jason Bloomberg, Intellyx LLC. CloudGenix is an Intellyx client. At the time of writing, none of the other organizations mentioned in this article are Intellyx clients. Intellyx retains full editorial control over the content of this paper. Image credit: Michael Coghlan.
