Network Automation Gets Competitive, Game Changers for the Branch & 2020 SD-WAN Predictions
Week of February 9th, 2020
451 Research: Enterprise Network Automation Gets Competitive
Demands for rapid network provisioning from the business and application architects in the data center, colocation, and the cloud is increasing. Moreover, application networking spans a variety of technology segments. The demands will be met with network automation, but which strategy makes sense? 451 Research shares their take on this alternative approach to network management and the automation vendors that give IT the ability to create and use automation without having to invest in extensive software development.
Game Changers At The Branch: Wi-Fi 6, 4G, 5G Plus SD-WAN
The growing use of cloud services is changing the pattern and the volume of branch-office data across the WAN, but wireless cellular services along with the intelligence of software-defined WAN can help keep traffic and costs in line.
Top 2020 SD-WAN Predictions
We’ve seen many transformative changes in the market over the past few years. In 2019, for example, we witnessed router-centric and basic SD-WAN offerings beginning to fall short of expectations as enterprises began shifting toward a business-first networking model. We also saw an emphasis on cloud security, along with a bond forming between SD-WAN and UCaaS. We began to see a new set of emerging requirements for multi-cloud deployments, and the promise of 5G beginning to materialize. So, what’s in store for 2020?
Autonomous Networks: Getting The Architecture Right, One Step At A Time
Wireless networks are becoming more flexible, spectrally efficient and cost effective. 5G adds the capacity and latency to support a wider range of use cases, device types and network architectures. But this comes with a price tag: increased complexity. We have to learn to manage this increased complexity if we want to take advantage of the benefits of technology evolution – 5G, edge, network slicing, virtualization and so on – and of the pervasive connectivity that IoT needs. Managing complexity requires a fundamental change in how we operate and manage networks, which goes beyond the adoption of 5G or other technologies and requires a new end-to-end architecture.
Three Problems DevOps Won’t Fix
DevOps has been around for more than a decade now, and for companies that aspire to be cloud-native, its benefits are clear: shorter lead time for changes, more frequent production deployments, and greater efficiency in managing failures and recoveries. But for all the contributions that DevOps has brought to software engineering, it’s not a silver bullet for success in the digital space. Here are three critical problems that DevOps, by itself, can’t fix.
Paving The Path To A Secure And Automated Multicloud With SD-WAN
Enterprises across the world are rapidly digitizing their operations. Increasingly, the digital strategies they are adopting include the transition of business tools, applications and processes to a ‘multicloud’ environment: essentially a hybrid combination of applications and data hosted in one or more public, clouds alongside the company’s own private data centers. With this shift, the traffic patterns and security postures of enterprise networks have been fundamentally altered. Multicloud has changed the world, and as much as the transition is impacting the inside of the modern data centre, it is also crucially reshaping the networks between them.
Digital Transformation – Why Now?
It’s hard to avoid the phrase “digital transformation” in technology articles these days. The thing is we’ve been in the digital age for at least 40 years. Companies have been transforming with the use of digital technology for a long time now. For example, in 1986 the New York Times covered “Digital’s Surprising Revival” which looked into the business transformation of Digital Equipment Corporation. Why is digital transformation so important right now for companies? What’s different?
Taking The Operators’ Pulse On SD-WANs: Visibility, Security & Simplicity
Telecom operators have set their sights firmly on managed software-defined wide-area networks (SD-WAN) services for future growth — and with good reason. Ovum forecasts that global SD-WAN services revenue will increase at a 21 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years while overall enterprise services revenue experiences zero growth over that same time.
Survey: Internal IT Teams Embrace ‘DevOps Inspired’ Processes
The “2020 State of Application Services” survey published today by F5 Networks suggests more IT organizations than ever are adopting some elements of DevOps principles to manage an increasingly diverse application portfolio. Based on a global survey of 2,600 IT professionals, the report finds 63 percent of organizations still place primary responsibility for application services within IT operations. However, more than half the organizations surveyed said they are moving toward “DevOps-inspired” teams. In addition, 73 percent of respondents said their organizations are automating network operations to boost efficiency.
What Is DevSecOps And How To Enable It On Your SDLC?
For the past three to four years, all the companies around the IT world have adopted agile and different application development methodologies that leverage the work for different departments or areas and helps them to develop new products and release new features to improve their processes and infrastructure. In this new Agile and DevOps world where everybody on a team is involved in the rapid changing and evolution of their application, we are promoting accountability for everybody in terms of security—this is when DevSecOps joins the party.
The Most Overhyped, And Most Significant, Tech Trends Of 2020
Cloud provider INAP surveyed IT professionals to see what they thought of the biggest tech trends, and the result is a list that tech leaders could use to plot initiatives for the year ahead. The survey results break down into two categories: The most overhyped trends and those most deserving of attention. Each category contains seven items, with one trend appearing in both.
Security Pros Anticipate Automation Will Reduce IT Security Headcount
The majority of companies (77 percent) continue to use or plan to use automation in the next three years, according to a Ponemon Institute and DomainTools survey. The biggest takeaway in this year’s study is that 51 percent of respondents now believe that automation will decrease headcount in the IT security function, an increase from 30 percent in last year’s study. Further, concerns by employees losing their jobs because of automation have increased to 37 percent over last year’s 28 percent.
Itential
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