Public–private hybrid cloud for financial services

Challenge: Independent operations lead to inefficiencies

Financial services firms typically have multiple data centers with semi-independent operations along with links to one or more public clouds. The resulting environment, even if optimized at the data center level, can still be unwieldy and costly to manage. That’s why IT organizations are often caught between matching public cloud capabilities in-house and being able to afford or secure operations on the public cloud.

Solution: Combine both private and public clouds into a coherent whole

The Nokia cloud architecture overlays complex network environments and transforms them into best practices clouds without forklift upgrades. By federating this unified environment across data centers and across the WAN, even the most complex enterprise environment is transformed to a best practices private cloud. By enabling consistent communications with public cloud(s), the result is a hybrid cloud.

Full control

Spans the entire IT environment to provide mission-critical operational controls

Maximum flexibility

Maximizes the firm’s flexibility in leveraging in-house or public resources, as needed

Efficient growth

Enables cost efficiencies as scale increases as well as use of public cloud where most cost effective

Nokia combines innovative software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) approaches with cutting-edge networking technology. The result is a true hybrid cloud infrastructure that provides mission-critical communications and operations while reducing costs. The Nokia cloud network provides the core infrastructure that flexes automatically — and in near-real time for mission-critical operations — in response to the demands of the cloud management systems, such as OpenStack. For its part, the Nokia Data Center Interconnect (DCI) approach leverages any combination of IP and optical network gear to provide high-performance, scalable and reliable connections among data centers.

How our approach changes the game

This innovative approach enables a public–private hybrid cloud that can scale internally with the addition of more IT resources, as well as scale externally by leveraging public cloud resources for production, such as big data jobs or end-of-quarter accounting runs. This approach can also be used for irregular and peak activities, such as elections or sporting events. This core scaling capability allows financial services firms to capitalize on the best of both types of cloud.