Don’t Settle for SD-WAN, the Pace of Network Automation & Scaling DevOps

by | March 20, 2020
Don’t Settle for SD-WAN, the Pace of Network Automation & Scaling DevOps

Week of March 15th, 2020


Don’t Settle For An Incomplete SD-WAN Solution

To keep up with digital innovation efforts, organizations are increasingly replacing their traditional WAN edge, built around static MPLS and router deployments. New SD-WAN solutions include business application recognition and steering, WAN path optimization, advance routing, and security – enabling organizations to take full advantage of the ongoing digital revolution at their remote sites and branch offices. But SD-WAN requirements are maturing, and as a result, many solutions are incomplete.

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NetDevOps Survey: The Slow & Steady Pace of Network Automation

Network to Code, a network automation solutions provider, recently released the findings of their annual NetDevOps survey, which aims to better understand how network operators and engineers are using automation to operate their networks. This recent survey showed not only a continuation of the network automation movement but, how organizations are still on a constant slow and steady pace toward being fully automated, with only 66% of the respondents in the works of beginning to implement some sort of automation in a significant way for the past two years or less.

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Before Deploying SD-WAN, Assess Your Underlay Network Components

Software-defined WAN, or SD-WAN, offers plenty of operational benefits, including seamless failover and prioritized packet routing. It’s a powerful platform, and its feature set is one reason why SD-WAN has become so popular over the past few years. Yet, if you’re stuck managing a legacy WAN deployment and are assessing whether to upgrade to SD-WAN, don’t forget about the underlay network. Without a solid SD-WAN underlay foundation, you won’t reap SD-WAN’s true benefits.

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Futuriom Research

Q&A: Chris Wade, CTO of network automation provider, Itential, discusses automation and the role it plays in emerging technologies.

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Scaling DevOps For The Enterprise

Information technology has been an integral piece of the modern enterprise for multiple decades and that dependency is only growing. With digital transformation, there’s an inevitable increase in demand for new applications. As such, software development services will continue to be a vital component of the business amidst the mounting pressure to innovate and deliver.

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SD-WAN Or MPLS: Which One Is Most Useful For IT?

When the idea of switching to SD-WAN is brought up, your hesitation is understandable and not uncommon. You’re probably thinking back to the countless hours and money your business put into installing MPLS and wondering if SD-WAN will be more useful to your IT staff or not. The good news is, both SD-WAN and MPLS offer unique advantages, making one system potentially more beneficial, depending on your business and what you want in a network. Learn more about both SD-WAN and MPLS in this in-depth comparison to have a better idea of which is the best solution for your staff.

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Network Security Automation Your Way

Today’s most successful business leaders know that every decision must be aligned to strategic goals. Whether acquiring another company or engaging in a full-scale digital transformation, successful businesses always keep their key objectives in mind. Until recently, the exception to this rule was when seeking network security policy management automation, because solutions were not flexible enough to allow each business to automate at its own pace and on its own terms. New and innovative network security policy management tools have opened the doors for today’s business leaders to align automation with overarching strategic objectives.

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Three Reasons Why Your IoT Initiatives Need SD-Wan

If you’re planning to deploy IoT-enabled assets, it’s critical that you have the right network architecture to manage the unique scalability and connectivity challenges that IoT presents. Cost-effective, secure, and easily manageable network connectivity is a must if you want to be successful. Unfortunately, wide area networks (WANs) simply aren’t designed to deliver the bandwidth, security, or flexibility that most IoT initiatives require. The good news is there’s a ready-made solution for IoT devices. Software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) are becoming the go-to technology to deploy, secure, and manage IoT—especially at the network edge in highly distributed enterprises.

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Beyond The Cloud: Why Optimization Is The Missing Piece

Regardless of industry, whether they realize it or not, every business has already begun their digital transformation journey. For some, this will mean improving the customer experience through integrated CRM suites, turning data into actionable insight and making it accessible to all. For others, the journey toward digital maturity will lean more into collaboration and productivity, ensuring the business has everything it needs to streamline and scale its operations. In both instances, cloud connectivity is crucial – but is connectivity enough?

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How Partners And MSSPS Can Help Customers Through SD-WAN Deployment

For both enterprises and small and midsize businesses, network evolution has been accelerated through the adoption of cloud-first strategies. This network expansion often happens slowly, without centralized control or secure oversight. In some cases, however, these networks develop quickly, driven by the new cloud.

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5G Is Here. What Do You Need To Know About Intent-Based Networks

Intent-based products such as Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant have redefined our daily lives. But could they soon redefine our networks also? Find out what the future holds for intent-based networks.

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As Networks Evolve, Enterprises Need To Rethink Network Security

Q&A: John Maddison, executive vice president of products for network security vendor Fortinet, discusses how to deal with network security in the digital era.

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Itential

Itential is the only automation platform built to support both network and cloud, making it easy for enterprise organizations to maintain network compliance, reduce manual operations, and simplify network management. The Itential Automation Platform is a low-code cloud-native SaaS solution that seamlessly connects IT systems with network technologies for end-to-end network configuration, compliance, and automation.

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