Prosimo Inc., the developer of networking technology for orchestrating application delivery across multiple clouds, today introduced a suite of tools that organizations can use to securely interconnect applications and services across regions and clouds.

The Cloud-Native Networking Suite aligns underlying cloud and network infrastructure with applications to simplify cloud onboarding, reduce network delivery lifecycles and more efficiently manage cloud resources, the company said.

The suite bridges conventional cloud networking with what Prosimo calls the Full Stack Cloud transit model, which is a single architecture that simplifies and automates multicloud deployment by combining elements of Layer 3 networking and service networking with asset discovery and cloud native orchestration.

Drag-and-drop configuration

There are three core components. Visual Transit Builder adds a drag-and-drop interface to the company’s existing tools for configuring networks, applications and services across any cloud.  “What used to take a week is now brought down to one day,” said Mehul Patel, head of marketing at Prosimo.

Cloud Tracer is a tool for tracking network topology and flow tracing across different regions and data centers.  It reduces problem resolution times by identifying and anticipating issues in real-time across networks, security checkpoints and applications.

“There have always been diagnostic tools from us, other vendors and even cloud service providers but what was missing was a complete visual angle for multicloud modeling,” said Vice President of Product Mani Ganesan. “This does impact analysis for every hop. All I have to do is click through the hop to get a full picture of what’s going on, not only within a single cloud region but across regions and clouds.”

One policy for all

Adaptive Service Insertion simplifies compliance in the cloud by allowing fine-grained policy definition and real-time visibility into stateful services such as firewalls that are in the path of networks and applications. That reduces the risk of human error, simplifies maintenance and helps network administrators appropriately size services, Prosimo said.

The feature addresses the temporal nature of cloud services, Ganesan said. “If you onboard an application in a [virtual private cloud], it could be Kubernetes-based, microservices-based or using a managed SQL database from Azure,” he said. “It has nothing to do with IP addresses, which are expected to change on a daily or hourly basis. If you write a policy in Prosimo saying this is my application and this is my source network it doesn’t matter where the firewall is. It becomes a very simple policy.”

Benefits of the Cloud Native Networking Suite include the ability to use native cloud provider services, apply a common methodology to network configuration, reduce startup and configuration onboarding times and eliminate the need for home-grown automation. At the same time, they can still integrate with the continuous integration and delivery pipelines that are used in NetDevOps workflows, the company said.

Founded in 2019, Prosimo has raised $55 million in funding.

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