Cloud-Based Services: Assure Performance, Availability, and Security

Services available from the cloud offer cost and efficiency benefits to businesses, but until now many customers have been hesitant to buy cloud services because of concerns about security, performance, and availability. Cloud service providers need to address these concerns by offering network services that benefit virtualized applications hosted in the cloud. This document provides an overview of the trends and challenges for cloud service delivery and describes the Cisco technologies and platforms in the data center that cloud service providers can use to address their customers' apprehensions.