Network Automation Ideas, SD-WAN Deployment Mistakes & Cloud Computing Predictions

by | January 10, 2020
Network Automation Ideas, SD-WAN Deployment Mistakes & Cloud Computing Predictions

Week of January 5th, 2020


12 Network Automation Ideas to Incorporate in Your Network

What’s your path to network automation? Here are 12 automation ideas that span different levels of expertise to help your network team get comfortable with network automation.

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SD-WAN Deployment: How To Avoid A Critical Mistake

When introduced, software-defined WAN, or SD-WAN, promised to raise the standard of the then-current MPLS by delivering a high-quality network. SD-WAN presented multiple advantages over previous iterations of network technology, including the ability to meet increasing bandwidth requirements, seamlessly route traffic through dynamic path selection in order to avoid congestion, and ensure faster delivery. But in order to adopt high-performing network infrastructure such as SD-WAN, an organization should first familiarize itself with typical missteps that come with planning and deployment to protect its network against traffic (and security) threats.

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Predictions For Cloud Computing In 2020

Clouds seemed to envelop every component of the information technology (IT) ecosystem in the past year. The cloud computing industry matured considerably in 2019. Cloud-native computing has become the beating heart of enterprise IT and the early jockeying for position among public cloud providers has died down as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform hold onto their considerable leads. Nevertheless, the cloud-computing industry ecosystem continues to evolve rapidly, and the following trends are on the horizon as we move into 2020.

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DevOps – The Troubles Of Automating All The Things

A culture of automation is such a cornerstone of DevOps, one of it’s oldest, most famous tropes is “automate ALL the things”. But are there things we maybe shouldn’t automate? What if how we go about automating things is actively causing us pain in the form of incidents? Watch this DevOpsCon talk by Netflix’s J. Paul Reed to find out more.

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Industry Voices—Chua: In 2020, Will SD-WAN Turn SASE And FUN?

As we kick off 2020, we’re experiencing the usual wave of look-back, look-ahead articles across technology publications and prognostications from industry pundits. A pent-up spurt of announcements queued up from the holidays, and timed to align with CES 2020, have also spewed forth. While some of our analyst friends have fun (or suffer the craziness) in Las Vegas at CES, FierceTelecom like to take a moment to reflect on the ever-evolving SD-WAN market. For the impatient amongst us, here’s a quick TL;DR summary.

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Cultural Transformation With Automation At Microsoft

Cultural transformation may not be the first thing you think about when talking about network automation, but it can make a big difference. For Microsoft, their transition to a DevOps platform, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, has sparked engineers with a newfound development maturity. In this video, you can see how network engineers and software developers are changing how they approach problems as an organization.

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How SD-WAN Can Help Smaller Retailers Gain Agility

Facing disruptive industry trends and larger competitors can be a challenge for smaller retailers. But by implementing the right digital strategy — and especially by leveraging the many advantages of SD-WAN technologies to quickly roll-out innovative shopping and payment apps and other services — the playing field can become more level, enabling smaller retailers to compete effectively against their larger counterparts.

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Public Cloud And Automated AI-Based Networking Define Operator Strategies For 2020

To predict what will come in the new year, we often look back at the previous year to identify successes as well as gaps and notice momentum. But trends and predictions don’t always fit nicely within calendar years. In fact, trends often take multiple years and overlap with each other. The combination of trends and the predictions for 2020 map out an exciting path towards network operations transformation and the evolution of the telecom service provider business and customer experience. Here are three key trends predicted for 2020.

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Digital Transformation And Corporate Strategy: The Impact Of SD-WANs

To some, Software-Defined Wide Area Networks (SD-WANs) are a revolution, providing the ability to identify the nature of data flows, prioritize them and deliver homogeneity of performance. This permits IT departments to deploy them “seamlessly between the decentralization and globalization of its enterprise footprint and its desire to have traffic managed through a central monitoring setup”, says Todd Kiehn, VP of Product Management GTT. He states this in his IT Pro Portal article, ‘The impact of SD-WAN adoption on digital transformation and corporate strategy’.

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How To Combine DevOps And Agile

In recent years, application development and deployment have become an increasingly critical part of business operations. Because of this, various entities have sought to optimize their product development process. This has led to a rise in the popularity of DevOps, which is designed for that purpose. In simple words, the DevOps application during the software development process reduces the number of steps necessary to bring software to market. DevOps implementation focuses also on the software scalability, how well it could be deployed and also its monitoring and maintenance after the future releases However, there is also a downside to traditional DevOps benefits. The system does not include the kind of continuous testing and improvement that Agile offers.

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The Disservice Of Cloud Consolidation

There’s no secret that over the past five years especially, the major (“tier 1”) cloud infrastructure players—Amazon, Microsoft and Google—have been snatching up smaller specialty providers, particularly cloud migration and security services. While this acquisition strategy immediately aims to strengthen and expand the provider’s direct and tangential cloud infrastructure offerings, the long-term goal is customer attraction and retention. In consolidating cloud infrastructure and related services, cloud vendors are targeting a basic human desire that often bleeds over into business decisions: convenience.

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How Some Organizations Are Implementing CI/CD

CI/CD implementations and the impetus for them varies among companies, but everyone wants to ensure faster delivery of high-quality software. Following are three examples of companies that have adopted CI/CD in their own way.

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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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