Edge Computing, MEF19 Highlights & Addressing the Challenges of 5G
Week of November 17th, 2019
The Five Biggest SD-WAN, 5G, And Telecom Announcements Revealed At MEF19
The MEF19 event was packed with the industry’s largest carriers and IT startups that are supporting emerging technologies, like 5G, by ensuring a strong network. Here are five offerings that were announced this year at the show.
Intent Based Networking: Is This The “Next Big Thing”?
Traditional networking is on its way out as the growing virtualization and digitization are making it look obsolete. There’s no time to constantly and manually reconfigure the hardware as the enterprise networking goals and expectations change and evolve. However, there is a new solution available that can help deal with that and it is called intent-based networking. Because it is fairly new, intent-based networking hasn’t gone mainstream yet. However, various vendors including Cisco, Juniper, and VMware have released their own intent-based networking solutions and it is considered the “next big thing” in the networking world.
Edge Computing Is The New Black
The IT industry has been living a big transformation for quite some time now. Most enterprises are focusing their investments in hybrid cloud solutions while on-premises core data center infrastructures are shrinking in favor of public cloud. At the same time, many have already realized that most of the data is created and consumed at the edge, which is now a fundamental component of every IT strategy.
5G: Addressing The Challenges, Building On The Opportunity
5G is today still in its infancy in terms of live implementations but the technology has great potential. 5G provides more bandwidth and considerably lower levels of latency than previous cellular technologies – and this will allow organizations across multiple vertical sectors to deploy new classes of applications. There will be a wide range of business benefits across these sectors as 5G technology rolls out over time, with retail and financial services being two of the most prominent.
Five Common SD-WAN Challenges And How To Prepare For Them
SD-WAN technology has its fair share of risk factors, some of which include security, deployment and quality of service. Find out how your IT team can prepare for these challenges.
IBM Aims At Hybrid Cloud, Enterprise Security
IBM is taking aim at the challenging concept of securely locking-down company applications and data spread across multiple private and public clouds and on-premises locations. IBM is addressing this challenge with its Cloud Pak for Security, which features open-source technology for hunting threats, automation capabilities to speed response to cyberattacks, and the ability integrate customers’ existing point-product security-system information for better operational safekeeping – all under one roof.
Eight Habits Of Successful DevOps Team Leaders
What do great leaders do differently as organizations scale DevOps? Use these best practices to set everyone up for success.
Comcast Business Exec: What Customers Like And Don’t Like About SD-WAN
Customers of all stripes want SD-WAN services, but they are confused by the Baskin-Robbins-like number of flavors that are on the market today, according to a Comcast Business executive. Speaking at the MEF19 conference, Bob Victor, senior vice president of product management for Comcast Business, said that vendor assessment was one of major challenges cited by SD-WAN customers. Every customer that wants to deploy SD-WAN comes with their own unique challenges and some of those challenges can continue as SD-WAN is scaled across the various vendor flavors.
Make It So: How Intent-Based Network Security Accelerates The Enterprise
Sometimes, it seems that IT and security teams just can’t win. They are judged on how quickly they can deploy their organization’s latest application or digital transformation initiative, but they’re also expected to safeguard those critical applications and data in increasingly complex hybrid networks – and in an ever more sophisticated threat landscape. That’s not an easy balancing act.
Microsoft Describes Its Own DevOps Journey
This is what DevOps looks like inside one of the world’s biggest software factories. The goals: more collaboration, improved work lives.
Five Disruptive Storage Technologies For 2020
For decades, storage technology progress was measured primarily in terms of capacity and speed. No longer. In recent times, those steadfast benchmarks have been augmented, and even superseded, by sophisticated new technologies and methodologies that make storage smarter, more flexible and easier to manage. Next year promises to bring even greater disruption to the formerly staid storage market, as IT leaders seek more efficient ways of coping with the data tsunami generated by AI, IoT devices and numerous other sources. Here’s a look at the five storage technologies that will create the greatest disruption in 2020, as enterprise adoption gains ground.
Google Cloud Sets Sights On Network Intelligence Automation
Google Cloud’s new network intelligence platform could potentially automate thousands of networking jobs and speed up cloud migrations to new levels of efficiency. The Network Intelligence Centre is designed to help customers monitor, verify, and optimise networks across on-premise data centers and in the cloud. Google developed the new platform because organizations are adopting multi-cloud implementations and hybrid deployments as part of their cloud strategy.
Dealing With IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tool Glut
Year over year, IT infrastructures are growing increasingly complex. At the same time, modern applications and architectures highlight the need for steady and predictable performance. Thus, products used to monitor various network, application and cloud performance statistics are required so performance can better be maintained. This is creating a situation where an unmanageable number of infrastructure monitoring tools are in play. Let’s look at the reason why many enterprise IT departments have unwittingly fallen into the monitoring tool glut trap — and how smart IT leadership is finding ways out of it.
DevOps Tools And Framework: Everything You Need To Know
DevOps is a culture where collaboration between development, operations, and business teams is considered a critical aspect of the DevOps journey. It’s not solely about the tools and DevOps in an organization creates continuous value for customers. Tools are only one of the pillars, the other being People and Processes. Here are the challenges faced by Development & Operations – DevOps Teams.