Day Two Cloud 182: Assembling The Multicloud Networking Puzzle To Operate At Cloud Speed (Sponsored)

Welcome podcast listeners to Day Two Cloud! Today we bring you a special panel conversation about the challenges of multicloud networking. This episode was recorded live in Las Vegas at AWS re:Invent in November of 2022. Sponsor Prosimo has assembled this panel. Our guests are Neill Smith, Head of Infrastructure for the Scottish government; Ahmed Ali, Practice Lead at Intuitive Cloud; and Faraz Siddiqui, Head of Solutions Architecture at Prosimo. We discuss: * How multicloud happens—sometimes by design, and sometimes not so much * Handling cloud networking and cloud platform responsibilities among a team * Prosimo’s approach to cloud networking * Bringing zero trust network access (ZTNA) into cloud and multicloud environments * How AWS and Prosimo partner on ZTNA * The biggest cloud networking challenges * More Show Links: Prosimo Prosimo Joins Forces With AWS To Disrupt ZTNA Market – Prosimo Neill Smith on LinkedIn Ahmed Ali on LinkedIn Faraz Siddiqui on LinkedIn Takeaway: [00:00:04.490] – Ethan Welcome, podcast listeners, to day two Cloud. Today we bring a special episode recorded live in Las Vegas, where Ned and I are in town for AWS reinvent. And welcome to all of you who are also in town and came here to watch the recording. You’re all awesome humans. Give yourselves a hand. Yeah, there we go. Alright, sponsor, probably asimo has made possible this discussion about the challenges of cloud networking and how to tackle them. And if challenges was too vague a word for you. Well, the core issues are centered around networking in the multicloud. I think I’m hitting that about right. Ned, what do you think? [00:00:38.400] – Ned No, I think you’re wrong. Multicloud networking is very simple. No one has any trouble with it and we can all just eat some more and drink some more. That’s going to be a very short podcast. [00:00:49.780] – Ethan Very short. [00:00:51.010] – Ned Sweet. Now, obviously when you look at the various clouds that are out there, they’ve all kind of invented their own networking layer and there’s common components, but there’s not so common components. So putting those things together is not the easiest thing in the world. And also plumbing it into your existing data center and all your branch offices. Also not simple. So I’m speaking as a podcaster, but we actually have somebody here who’s trying to do this for real. So why don’t we introduce him? Neil. Neil Smith, you’re the head of infrastructure for the entire Scottish government. [00:01:28.600] – Neil Not quite the entire Scottish government, yet one of the largest directorates inside the Scottish government. [00:01:34.990] – Ned So first of all, thank you for being our first victim, I mean, guest. Can you tell us what the challenges, the main challenges are for you when it comes to multicloud networking? [00:01:50.370] – Neil I think the main challenge originally was to try and get everyone on the same page. I think multiple cloud by a concept is still relatively new. When you try and go through your appropriate channels, the architecture teams, and you talk about multicloud and this is how we should design for multi...