An effective architecture relies on product partnership to build a comprehensive solution that provides security, reliability, performance, and orchestration at scale. Most companies have to manage a hybrid cloud architecture that connects the VPC to environments hosted elsewhere. IBM and Cloudflare partnership via IBM CIS can abstract the application layer away from the underlying VPC to provide a single control plane with a powerful suite of performance, security, and reliability products from Cloudflare that are directly integrated into IBM Cloud today.