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Deploying multi-cloud networking

Improving an existing cloud deployment was also the focus at Covetrus, an animal health technology company based in Portland, Maine. The company operates a born-in-the-cloud veterinary pharmacy business, distributes veterinary supplies and offers practice management software.

Stephen Crowley, CIO of global technology solutions at Covetrus, said the company’s cloud and e-commerce environment became increasingly complex as the company grew. “In the early days of our company, we encouraged developers to innovate and explore tools as they developed cloud-native applications in AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure,” he said.

But Covetrus needed to interconnect the various apps with each other and with e-commerce systems.

“In that kind of petri dish environment, you quickly can get to chaos,” Crowley said. “We started connecting everything — multi-clouds, multi-commerce — with cloud networking tunnels. We became really complex to the point that we were brittle…”

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