Large enterprise requirements 

Large enterprises often have similar requirements for scale, security infrastructure, and governance.

The following table includes some of these common requirements that are targeted by the architecture that is covered in this white paper.



Table 1. Common Requirements for large enterprises

 Domain                    Requirement                                                   Detail                                          

 Resource Scalability      Compute                                                       Up to 40k hosts, 160k vCPUs                     
                           Containers                                                    Up to 20k Containers                            
                           Storage                                                       Up to 50 PB (main) & 30 PB (backup)             
                           Applications                                                  Up to 5,000 apps                                
                           Growth                                                        Support 20% Y/Y growth                          
 Organization Scalability  Business Units                                                Up to 25                                        
                           Portfolios                                                    Up to 250                                       
                           Users                                                         Up to 100k                                      
 Security                  Network security and enterprise integration                   Multi-vendor VNF integration                    
                           Segmentation and isolation                                    Zero trust: deny first, allow what you must     
                           Onboarding, offboarding, or consolidation of units and teams 
                           Network intelligence                                          Enterprise scale, virtualized firewalls         
                           Data protection                                               Encryption, BYOK, audit, exfil prevention       
 Infrastructure            Common services that are shared across teams and accounts    
                           Common network connectivity to on-premises                   
                           Centrally managed enterprise transit                         
                           Unified usage reporting and billing                          
                           Quotas by unit, team, apps                                   
                           Application migration and restructuring                      
                           Shared logging facility                                      
 Governance                Templated deployment support                                  Automated deployment of approved infra patterns 
                           Enterprise policy                                            
                           Role inheritance across enterprise                           
                           Maximize cost effectiveness                                  
                           Integration with governance tools                             Includes security advisor                       
 Compliance                Financial Services Cloud                                      Compliant by default, audited, shift left       
                           SOC2, GDPR, and so on                                         Compliance coverage