Management complexity is a major pain point for enterprises that want a choice between different cloud providers. Luckily, a company called RightScale offers to simplify multi-service environments with a common interface for provisioning resources across public clouds.

Recognizing the value in software-defined networking, RightScale announced this week that it has rounded out its offering with a new tool called Network Manager. The software introduces access controls, a much-needed change log, and a set of standardized configurations that aim to make it easier for enterprises to migrate applications between different clouds. These features are joined by a Network Map that visualizes network topography, including configurations, security settings and access controls, across every cloud platform in a given deployment.

“Private and public clouds increasingly leverage new networking technologies, including SDNs. Network Manager helps professionals visualize and audit cloud network histories, improve security, and manage networks across clouds,” said Rishi Vaish, the vice president of product at RightScale.

Enterprises are increasingly adopting network abstraction technologies across both off- and on-premises environments. In response, traditional vendors are refreshing their portfolios with software-defined solutions.

The most recent company to do so was Juniper, which recently introduced a standards-based network virtualization layer that doubles as a services platform. Known as Contrail, the solution has caught the attention of channel partners such as Lumeta, which joined the Juniper Network’s SDN Technology Program in an effort to get a slice of the software-defined pie.

Lumeta provides network discovery and security solutions for large enterprises and government agencies. The firm is planning to integrate its flagship application suite with Contrail to help customers “test the security posture of their virtualized networks within an ever-changing SDN environment.”

A few weeks before Contrail made its debut, VMware pulled the curtains back on its own network virtualization solution.