The Impact of Digital Transformation, SD-WAN Expectations & Cisco 2020 Predictions
Week of January 12th, 2020
How To Deal With The Impact Of Digital Transformation On Networks
Digital transformation has increased the importance of the network, particularly the edge, where customers, employees, cloud applications and IoT devices connect to the enterprise. The legacy static and non-differentiated network edge of years past is no longer sufficient for many reasons, so as companies embark on digital-transformation plans, their networks must evolve. Networking pros should be looking at, among other things, improving security and embracing software-defined networking (SDN) that supports propagating changes quickly across the network in order to accommodate the many challenges digital transformation creates.
What To Expect From SD-WAN In 2020?
In the first year of a new decade, 2020 will see software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) continue to play a vital role in facilitating digital transformation and powering cloud-connected enterprises. Continuing upon present trends, cloud will dominate in the enterprise as enterprises look to lower costs and stay agile, while businesses will continue to embrace Internet of Things (IoT) and facilitate its growth. This will drive the move towards SD-WAN that fully optimizes operations, but what else is in store for SD-WAN in 2020? Here are 10 predictions for the SD-WAN market in 2020.
Itential To Showcase Its Network Automation Platform For Multi-Domain Environments
Itential®, the leader in intelligent network automation, has announced that it will sponsor and exhibit at Cisco Live EMEA 2020, taking place January 27th – 31st at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona, Spain. During the event, Itential will showcase and demo how its leading low-code platform helps enterprises and service providers simplify and accelerate the automation of complex, multi-domain and multi-vendor network environments.
Cisco Predicts The Biggest Technology Trends For 2020
“The last decade has seen a huge change in the way consumers, business, industry and governments use technology. The mass adoption of smartphones has seen cloud-based computing, apps and social media develop at a rapid pace. Cisco is predicting even more dramatic changes for the decade ahead,” said Osama Al-Zoubi, Cisco CTO for Middle East and Africa. Cisco has revealed its top trends and predictions for technology in 2020 and beyond.
Will SD-WAN Solve IoT’s Toughest Questions?
IoT and SD-WAN might not sound like they belong together, but ask VMware’s VeloCloud or managed service provider Apcela and you might be surprised by what they have to say. The two companies see SD-WAN as the key to making large IoT deployments manageable at a human scale. Sanjay Uppal, who co-founded VeloCloud and now serves as the head of VMware’s SD-WAN division, said the expanding scope of SD-WAN has opened the door to several applications that the technology wouldn’t normally be associated with, and IoT is one of them.
The State Of Digital Transformation In 2020
The past year has seen many businesses question exactly how transformational digital transformation really is. The answer, as with all IT initiatives, depends on the scope of the ambition, the skill of the leadership, and the ultimate degree of business impact. Yet we’ve seen a pattern emerge: Those with transformational aspirations discover that boil-the-ocean schemes seldom meet their objectives, while carefully planned and targeted initiatives often have broader benefit than even the original instigators imagined.
Cisco Systems’ Dual Path To SD-WAN With Meraki And Viptela
The SD-WAN market is expansive. At my last count, over 60 different SD-WAN solution providers were in the market, both large and small. Soon I expect that this number will begin to rapidly consolidate and a half dozen or so dominant players will emerge. I believe Cisco Systems will be one of those SD-WAN victors for three reasons—its massive install base, fully integrated security stack and platform choice flexibility. It’s the latter that I find intriguing. Only a handful of networking infrastructure providers offer a complete solution and Cisco offers two. I would like to provide my insights and two customer proof points that demonstrate why I think Cisco is on the right SD-WAN track.
Samsung Acquires TeleWorld Solutions To Expedite 5G Expansion
This week, Samsung Electronics announced that it completed its agreement to acquire network services provider TeleWorld Solutions (TWS). The acquisition will address Samsung’s need for end-to-end support in delivering network solutions.
Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid Of DevOps
Terminology and complexity can make any new concept scary. As a combination of both Software Dev(elopment) and System Op(eration)s, DevOps can be intimidating, as it inherits concepts and jargon from two different worlds of modern technology. While DevOps does have a lot of lingo, a number of TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) and a hefty learning curve, I’m here to tell you that there is plenty to be gained from just a little dip into DevOps.
How To Deal With The Lack Of IoT Standards
With each IoT standards body creating its own architecture or framework, IT professionals have many options to sort through for any IoT deployment.
SD-WAN Enables Large-Scale Enterprise Deployments Including Mobile & IoT
As global enterprises continue to adopt and deploy SD-WAN as a key enabler of cloud and digital transformation initiatives, they must also consider the importance of infrastructure scalability to accommodate the dynamic nature of connecting users to business applications and services regardless of where they are physically located. This is driving an increased focus on ease-of-use, automation, and orchestration, which industry analyst firm Futuriom cites as one of the top features of SD-WAN functionality.
Industrial IoT Networking
As digital transformation continues to drive change in the mining industry, private LTE networks have emerged as the wireless technology of choice to deliver robust, reliable and secure mobile communications. According to Harbor Research, private LTE for industrial and business markets will grow more than three-fold between now and 2023, reaching nearly $70 billion in estimated annual revenue. The Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), predictive analytics and automation all are playing key roles in this paradigm shift towards smart mining operations with an objective to increase productivity, reduce costs and improve safety.
DevOps And Observability In The 2020s
DevOps Pulse is an annual analysis of the DevOps industry, conducted by logz.io. Findings from the 2019 version have just been published, and ZDNet.com has taken the opportunity to share and comment on them with Tomer Levy, logz.io CEO. Levy co-founded logz.io in 2014 and has managed to raise about $100 million and build a team of 250 people to date, on the premise of offering an open-source based solution for log management.
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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