While storage and compute have moved to the cloud, many networking functions remain on-premises, creating capacity limitations, high total cost of ownership, support challenges, and security gaps. Organizations are struggling to ensure adequate capacity and effective security with hybrid work becoming the norm.

Many transformation projects have stalled because of hardware backlogs running well over a year. This paper outlines those challenges, quantifies their consequences, and proposes cloud- based solutions for improving the speed, affordability, and security of hybrid cloud infrastructure.