By John Foster
As the article “5 reasons the enterprise data center will never die” from CIO Magazine points out, hybrid computing environments are here to stay. Refactoring legacy applications is expensive and time consuming, requiring enterprises to commit scarce IT resources to recreating applications that have been running reliably on-prem for years. The security, regulatory and operating cost advantages of on-premise data centers can be substantial, in many cases large enough that enterprises are repatriating some workloads from the cloud back to data centers. In addition, enterprises are diversifying their cloud services across multiple clouds to get better pricing or specialized capabilities.
But these hybrid- and multi-cloud environments are complex to manage, requiring specialized tools that can provide comprehensive visibility across clouds and hybrid environments. Likewise, identifying security vulnerabilities in legacy applications can be challenging, with some CISO’s describing their bespoke applications as a black box with unknown vulnerabilities.
CloudSphere’s Illuminate360 application and services discovery platform provides comprehensive visibility across your entire IT estate, discovering and identifying servers, applications, and cloud services, and automatically mapping application interdependencies. Our agentless, automated discovery delivers unmatched visibility across large, complex IT estates, including multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments offering a unified view of your entire IT landscape. Illuminate360 maps both custom and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications into business services while also identifying where IT management and security agents are present – and more importantly, where they may be missing. Additionally, Illuminate360 can identify shadow or rogue applications running in the network, including unauthorized AI models and potentially malicious or unapproved software.
Cloudsphere’s comprehensive services map facilitates prioritization of response and remediation based on business criticality and provides a common reference point for collaboration across teams. Internal and external data sources can be overlaid on service maps for change management, vulnerability assessment, and compliance monitoring. Understanding the interdependencies between applications can also identify potential security vulnerabilities.
Moreover, in the case of network microsegmentation, visualizing communication patterns between applications allows users to identify which segments need isolation and define appropriate levels of access for each. This insight enables the creation of granular security policies that precisely regulate traffic flow between segments.
As IT and SecOps management move to generative AI, CloudSphere’s knowledge graph is the ground truth for LLM-powered interactions, ensuring accurate, reliable responses and allowing enterprises to deploy generative AI with confidence.
