Connectivity is king – connectivity concepts in multi-cloud

Let's get back to our smartphone for a minute. Remember? You take it out of the box, and you want to start working with it. The first thing to do is to connect the phone to the outside world. It's the same with connecting to the cloud. You can make a subscription in any cloud provider and start working in it, but a company would want to have an enrollment to which its workers can securely connect from the company's domain to a specific cloud service. Basically, there are three options to enable that connection: a virtual private network (VPN), direct connections, and using a fully managed broker service from a telecom company or connectivity partner. In the next sections, we are going to have an in-depth look at each of these options.

VPN

One of the most used technologies is the VPN. In essence, a VPN is a tunnel using the internet as a carrier. It connects from a certain IP address or IP range...