SD-WAN Reality Check, Advancement of Network Automation & 2020 Predictions
Week of December 22nd, 2019
Seven Networking Predictions For 2020: Automation, Edge Computing, Wi-Fi 6
Businesses and consumers live and die by the network. We work and play in an always-connected world and know that productivity and entertainment can suffer when connectivity is unreliable. To that end, we have been awash in technology that promises to make our lives better. For the most part, it has succeeded, but what does the future hold for our networking needs? Let’s dive in and take a look at networking predictions for 2020.
SD-WAN Reality Check: Sorting Out The Hype
Touted for benefits such as reduced costs, increased performance, and ease of management, SD-WAN is having a moment in networking. But are the promises by managed service providers (MSPs) too good to be true, and more importantly, what should enterprises know about selecting an SD-WAN solution?
Predictions 2020: Seven DevOps Predictions Shaping 2020
2019 was an exciting year for DevOps practitioners, with DevOps adoption continuing to grow at a fast pace. Most organizations were either executing or evaluating their DevOps strategies. So, what is 2020 going to bring in DevOps, infrastructure and application automation? Here are seven DevOps predictions for emerging trends in the new year.
Network Automation: Advancement And Future Prospects
Some part of exploring the universe of New IT is understanding and capitalizing by New Network. Today, intent-based networking capabilities are helping organizations keep pace with the demands of digital and cloud change. In any case, adequately utilizing those capabilities, which look to intently and constantly align the enterprise network with business needs requires another mentality and way to deal with the network concentrated on automation.
Five Industries Ready To Embrace The Future Of Networking
No matter what industry they operate in, progressive companies around the world all have one thing in common: they constantly look for ways of bringing people and technology closer together. By combining human intelligence with the analytical and problem-solving skills of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, organizations can drive efficiencies and boost overall productivity. In short, they are able to get the best out of both worlds. This is what the autonomous enterprise is effectively all about.
Six Ways SD-WAN Redefines Brand Networking
Today, digital business is no longer an abstract concept—it’s a reality. As more applications move to the cloud, business users increasingly rely on them to do their jobs. From virtual meetings to file-sharing to collaboration through tools like Skype, Slack, and Office 365, including voice and video traffic, they require consistent, high-quality bandwidth, all the time.
Top Ten DevOps Articles Of 2019
As more organizations – especially the larger, more traditionally hierarchical ones – adopted DevOps practices in 2019, leaders faced many questions. Common questions include how to scale DevOps, how to deal with people who push back against these new ways of working, and how to apply DevOps in larger digital transformation efforts. And as DevOps was introduced to more people, even more basic questions bubbled to the surface in many organizations – like what is DevOps, how does it compare to the ways things have always been done, and what does leadership look like in this new DevOps world?
AI, IoT And Machine Learning To Challenge Traditional Networking
The next phase of networking will depend on IT learning to wrangle modern technologies in ways that simplify operations and help humans make decisions. That’s the upshot of a new report by Cisco, which specifically called out technologies like machine learning, machine reasoning and automation.
Demystifying Security In An Open, Hybrid Multicloud Environment
We are currently witnessing a massive transition across organizations as more companies move application workloads to hybrid multicloud environments. This process of cloud migration and realignment will further accelerate digital transformation, and there are significant benefits for organizations, including cost savings, lowered total cost of ownership (TCO) and increased business agility. The core principles of business agility demand that organizations not only thrive in a competitive environment but also adapt to market changes, respond flexibly to customer needs and, at the same time, stay cost-effective. The organization’s journey to hybrid multicloud adoption and acceleration is not only compelling, but also inevitable.
SD-WAN Requires Deep Integration Between Connectivity And Security
The one common drawback to most SD-WAN solutions is that they address your WAN connectivity needs as if they exist in isolation. This isn’t unique. One of the biggest challenges facing organizations undergoing rapid digital transformation is that each new network element tends to be designed and implemented in isolation. While this approach has several significant flaws, none is more serious than the impact it has on security.
Is AI The Antidote To Network Complexity?
Dreams of a future built on 5G networks and powered by IoT dominated the conversation at conferences in 2019. But for all these grand visions there’s a problem: How do you manage networks with millions of cell sites connecting billions of IoT devices? According to some the answer is better visibility enabled by artificial intelligence (AI).
Securing the Hybrid Cloud Environment: A New Paradigm Using Zero Trust
It’s clear the future of IT lies in hybrid cloud, thanks to its ability to increase an organization’s scalability, agility and cost savings. According to a recent survey from Microsoft, two-thirds of enterprises already use hybrid cloud, more than half of these just deployed in the past two years. What’s more, this growth isn’t anywhere near finished. Analysts expect spending on hybrid cloud will grow more than 300 percent from 2017 to 2023, topping $138 billion.
Eight Ways Cloud Is Transforming Business
Cloud is more than a mere technology offering. For CIOs, it is a force elevating their roles to that of innovators and catalyzers of organizational growth. When it comes to cloud-based transformation, there is no clear or single path for CIOs for getting from “here” to “there.” Yet there are forward-looking organizations that are not only rethinking the very role and purpose of IT—turning their IT departments into agents of transformation—but also leveraging cloud to deliver benefits to their organizations. To help you develop a road map for your own cloud journey, here are eight compelling use cases for effective cloud adoption across a variety of industries.
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