As we said, reducing capital expense is on everyone's to-do list these days, and being able to invest in your infrastructure based on business needs is a key to achieving that goal. If your company is expecting seasonal workload, you would probably want to be able to dynamically expand your infrastructure based on needs. Moving your workloads to the cloud allows you to do this. If you are dealing with sensitive customer data or intellectual property, you probably want to be able to maintain secure connectivity between your premise and the cloud. You might also need to move workloads between your premise and the cloud as per your business demands, and so establishing secure connectivity between corporate and the cloud must be dynamic and transparent to your users. That means the gateway you use at the edge of your on-premise network and the gateway your cloud provider uses must be compatible.
Another consideration is that you must also be able to establish...