Cloudflare – the leading connectivity cloud company – announced the launch of Magic Cloud Networking. Magic Cloud Networking is a simple, secure, scalable product for businesses to connect and secure public cloud environments.
To drive the entrance into the new market, Cloudflare acquired Nefeli Networks technology. Nefeli Networks is a multi-cloud networking (MCN) startup focused on reducing the complexity of IT and DevOps teams by providing a unified network management layer for cloud infrastructure deployments.
By integrating Nefeli’s technology with Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud platform, Cloudflare now combines cloud network orchestration through the scale of a global network in a unified platform – positioning Cloudflare to help businesses to discover, connect, and protect any private or public cloud environment seamlessly while further helping avoid public cloud lock-in.
The majority of businesses depend on large public cloud providers in some way, and these organizations have to manually configure and manage cloud networking platforms to connect each virtual private cloud (VPC). And multicloud networking offers the potential for businesses to utilize multiple cloud environments and easily deploy and manage connectivity and security policy across them. Nefeli’s technology automates and simplifies the process by creating a single pane of glass that allows teams to more easily deploy and manage changes to networking components.
Nefeli’s partnership with Cloudflare originally started during the Workers Launchpad program, enabling the Nefeli team to explore ways the technologies could scale to best serve customers.
Cloudflare acquired Nefeli’s team and technology for accelerating the development and launch of Magic Cloud Networking. ANd Cloudflare is integrating this technology into Cloudflare One, its comprehensive SASE platform, to provide customers with a unified management experience across their entire enterprise network, including cloud and on-premises deployments.
By providing Magic Cloud Networking as part of a unified platform alongside Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) capabilities, Cloudflare is the only vendor today with a comprehensive Zero Trust product portfolio, solid network connectivity powered by the company’s global footprint and backbone, and application and network security, connecting and protecting customers’ internal, private systems but also external, public-facing systems.
Magic Cloud Networking will enable customers to utilize Cloudflare’s global network, the largest and most interconnected network in the SASE market, spanning over 310 cities in over 120 countries and interconnecting with over 13,000 networks globally. And with the addition of Magic Cloud Networking, Cloudflare will enable customers to seamlessly discover, visualize, connect, and secure their cloud networking infrastructure – uniquely positioning Cloudflare as the one-stop-shop for customers looking to transform their network architecture.
KEY QUOTES:
“We believe the full potential of the cloud will only truly be unlocked when customers can easily mix and match the best features of each public cloud provider. Adding Nefeli’s team and capabilities to Cloudflare’s connectivity cloud fast tracks our entrance into multicloud networking – enabling our customers to reduce the cost of managing multiple cloud providers as well as gain greater control, visibility, agility, and resiliency to get the most out of their cloud environments.”
- Matthew Prince, CEO and co-founder at Cloudflare
“At Nefeli, we worked to ensure businesses could get the most out of the cloud, without being constrained by artificial boundaries within or between any particular cloud platform. By seamlessly integrating Nefeli’s multicloud networking capabilities into Cloudflare’s robust platform, businesses will be now able to easily connect and manage their cloud infrastructure with security and performance built in at scale.”
- Eugenia Corrales, CEO of Nefeli
“Since the early days of the Internet, complexity has been one of the biggest roadblocks to innovation. That’s why I’m thrilled to see this next chapter for Nefeli’s talented team – bringing simplicity and scalability together to revolutionize multicloud networking.”
- Dr. Scott Shenker, Co-founder and Chairman of Nefeli
