Prosimo – Unlocking the power of multi-cloud with full stack cloud transit

Prosimo delivers simplified multi-cloud infrastructure for distributed enterprise cloud journeys. Companies innovate faster and remain in control with the Prosimo integrated stack. This stack combines cloud networking, performance, security, observability, and cost management—all powered by data insights and machine learning models with autonomous cloud networking to reduce complexity and risk. Cloud-forward enterprises, including F100, have adopted Prosimo to successfully roll out revenue-generating applications, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate positive business outcomes. Prosimo is venture-backed by marquee investors such as General Catalyst and WRVI Capital.

Cloud Transit Transformation

Prosimo began its discussions with the company by presenting its architecture and isolating core components into two functional buckets: Architecture and Operations.  Design and build operations often take a siloed approach in implementing key network components, yet Prosimo combines connectivity, security, and content delivery into a single operational deployment.  Prosimo calls this “Full-Stack Cloud Transit.” This full-stack enables the Prosimo to execute across three use-cases: Zero-Trust Network Access (ZTNA), Network Transit, and App-to-App Transit.

In enabling connectivity alongside security and content delivery, Prosimo accelerates the delivery of new features or new apps without the operational drag of deploying these functions as separate entities.  The Prosimo Edge delivers Full-Stack Cloud Transit – a network service stack built on Kubernetes managed as IaaS and deployed within any region in minutes.

Prosimo then discovers and connects to existing cloud-native network functions such as Transit Gateway in AWS.  The “Edge” speaks cloud-native, allowing it to connect to existing cloud-native functions or orchestrate new ones to support application growth.  As a result, Prosimo can insert itself as a service – non-disruptively – within any brown or greenfield deployment.

Zero Trust Security model for Enterprise Apps

With over 15 offices in different countries and 15,000 employees, a fintech company specializing in business software started streamlining and modernizing how employees and partners access applications. The company’s Security and Risk management department has been mainly focused on Zero Trust security, an approach in which all communications are validated, authorized, and access is strictly controlled for every user and device, regardless of whether they are inside or outside the network. This move to Zero Trust is driven by the need for secure and easy access to enterprise applications for remote workers, core business applications for customers and partners, increased cloud adoption in AWS, and new sophisticated attacks testing the limits of traditional VPN security solutions.

Furthermore, the company is embracing work style reform with a significant global presence where users are no longer confined to an office or on-prem locations. The company is empowering employees to work from anywhere — at home or in a café. While remote access has existed in one form or another for many years, it was never intended to be used extensively or as a primary means of connecting to enterprise applications. Also, user experience was never a priority as most users and applications “lived” in the exact location – the enterprise campus.

Dynamic Cloud Architecture

Emerging markets are a case study of business volatility. The difference between carving out a sizable market share and failing to make an impact is razer thin. Success largely hinges on making the right decisions at the right time, while missed opportunities have an outsized impact on the company’s viability.

For one Fortune 500 company in the energy business, transitioning to a software company that helps utilities, manufacturers, and building owners digitally transform their operations to be more efficient and sustainable would require a new level of business agility. Despite being in business for nearly 200 years, the company needed to accelerate software development, adopt and roll out new technologies, explore new markets worldwide, and investigate and integrate acquisition targets that would help the company speed growth.

The move to the cloud was a no-brainer, and, over the course of several years, the company migrated critical business systems to a multi-cloud environment across a dozen Azure, AWS, and GCP regions worldwide. A truly cloud-based business, the company prioritized application access to employees, partners, and other stakeholders wherever business took them.

A Complete Rethinking of Networking

The director of cloud platform investigated several ways to simply multi-cloud networking across the organization’s global operations—looking at traditional SD-WAN and MPLS vendors to consolidate infrastructure. He also considered traditional layer three networking approaches but decided a complete rethinking of how to approach networking was needed. And that brought him to Prosimo.

Born in the cloud, Prosimo Application eXperience Infrastructure (AXI) integrates with existing cloud-native network constructs to maintain a direct path to application endpoints while enhancing security and performance. The company’s cloud architects and operations teams can now create secure connectivity to applications deployed across dozens of Azure, AWS, and GCP environments worldwide. Scaling to other regions is done in a matter of minutes by dropping a Prosimo Edge to that region with Prosimo automatically taking care of all the plumbing orchestration, providing the right level of visibility and control.

Automating multi-cloud networking with Prosimo centralizes multi-cloud networking through a single management console. Cloud operators simply spin up an instance, and set service level agreement (SLA) requirements based on performance, security, reliability, and cost—and users can get up and running within minutes. Optimal routing and content caching on the edge boost performance without requiring additional cloud resources.

Ramesh Prabagaran | Co-founder and CEO

"We have come up with a radical new way to empower a true multi-cloud infrastructure strategy that allows you to deliver apps that are fast, secure, and cost-optimized."