For many years, organizations have spent huge amounts building custom applications and infrastructure, such as on-premises services, running within their company firewalls. Most of these custom-build applications hold large amounts of business-centric data. With the shift toward the cloud and the global market, businesses are being required to share data, in one form or another, with customers and partners in a secure manner. Coupled with commitments to their cloud adoption strategies, organizations are also making huge investments in cloud offerings by looking at the benefits of multiple Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) products and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offerings.
The big challenge these organizations are facing is bridging the gap between on-premises resources sitting behind corporate firewalls and cloud services in a secure manner. To...
