The Paradox of Network Automation, Maximizing SD-WAN & An Effective CI/CD Pipeline
Week of September 29th, 2019
The Paradox of Today’s Networks & Why It’s Time to Commodify Network Interfaces
The state of Network Automation today is a paradox. While extreme innovation has occurred within the network device interface space from the use of programmable constructs like NETCONF, RESTCONF, and REST APIs, many network domains continue to require manual intervention.
Understanding SD-WAN Deployment & How IT Teams Can Maximize It
One of the biggest technology trends in modern networking, SD-WAN has had the enterprise IT world buzzing for several years. As network bandwidth requirements have skyrocketed in the face of limited IT budgets, network operations (NetOps) teams are still tasked with the challenge of managing the flow of critical traffic from HQs and data centers to various branch offices. Unfortunately, it’s virtually impossible to assure that traditional WAN transmission technologies like MPLS circuits will meet 24×7 business-critical bandwidth and application requirements without interruption (or exorbitant costs). That’s where SD-WAN benefits to business come in, and why it’s seeing such staggering adoption rates.
Coaxing Network People Into Automated-DevOps Fast Lane
Networking is climbing up the computing stack, morphing into new, cloud-compatible types, from intent-based to programmable networking. Alongside technology, networking culture is also transforming, incorporating new elements for automation and fresh paradigms for approaching operations. Terms like NetDevOps might make some networking people nervous; how many bases must they cover? Do they have to write code now? Getting network admins out of their silos and into the fast-paced stream of DevOps-driven, cloud-based IT isn’t a breeze if they’re chained to legacy networking gear. But it’s becoming increasingly important to do so as IT roles merge.
How To Implement An Effective CI/CD Pipeline
DevOps bridges the gap between development, operations and IT services teams efficiently. To foster a DevOps culture, implementing the right DevOps tools with the right DevOps process is essential. Continuous integration/continuous delivery/continuous deployment (CI/CD/CD) help developers and testers ship the software faster and safer in a structured environment. Unlike the traditional software life cycle, the CI/CD implementation process gives a weekly or daily update instead of monthly or quarterly. The fun part is customers won’t even realize the update is in their applications, as they happen on the fly.
5G, Cloud And The New-Provider Edge: A Routing Tsunami
The way that service providers deliver Internet and network connectivity to people, companies and devices is due for a major shake-up. Dean Bogdanovic of Volta Networks explains what will drive major changes at the network edge.
How Do I Create Proper Documentation Of Network Automation?
Despite network automation’s advantages, organizations can face disadvantages if they have improper network documentation. These four components can help enable proper documentation.
Industry Voices—Raynovich: How SES Is Taking SD-WAN To Space
Global satellite communications powerhouse SES recently launched a managed SD-WAN service, extending enterprise communications to its multi-orbit satellite networks. This is an important move that demonstrates the expanding applications of SD-WAN technology. It only makes sense that SD-WAN technology, whose power and popularity has been consistently underestimated, is now being extended out to satellites, which have the advantage of global coverage where terrestrial networks might not exist. SES says its services extending SD-WAN to its multi-orbit satellite fleet will provide new use cases such as terrestrial fiber trunking for network backup, seamless maritime connectivity, and IoT connectivity in the energy industry, to provide a few examples.
Service Assurance In A Cloud-Native World
The complexity of future 5G networks, simultaneously handling consumer, enterprise and machine-based data transmission, requires investments in network automation. But, as operators take a step-by-step to automating operational processes, the rewards are clear but the risks are myriad and speak to both technology-facing decisions as well as a shift in internal structure and culture.
DevOps 100: Top Leaders, Practitioners, Experts To Follow
As the DevOps movement continues to make headway into the enterprise, TechBeacon has updated its “DevOps 100” list of IT leaders who are driving those changes. This year they partnered with IT Revolution and the DevOps Enterprise Summit programming committee to identify the 100 practitioners to follow on Twitter.
Key Facts About The Roles Of Wi-Fi 6, 5G In IoT, Edge Era
Enterprise IT is quickly becoming a data-centric and widely distributed environment that includes the soon-to-be tens of billions of connected, intelligent devices. This will make up the internet of things (IoT) and generate petabytes of data, multiple public and hybrid clouds and modern applications using such technologies as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, big data and advanced analytics. Central to all of this are wireless networks, the connective tissue that support all these devices, move all that data, link all those clouds and meet the diverse demands for speed, capacity and latency of those modern workloads.
From Counterculture To Mainstream: A Decade Of DevOps
In a technology context, DevOps is counterculture gone mainstream. Ten years ago, it was little more than a niche trend, adopted by organizations that saw speed and automation would sit at the heart of future application development. Back then, the velocity of business was increasing drastically, and application complexity was accelerating. It was no longer the sole remit of giant tech companies and startups. Every enterprise had to reinvent their software development approach. Those counterculture trailblazers now sit in a DevOps market that is among the fastest-growing market segments in IT. DevOps has changed the face of application development by breaking down the wall of confusion that can exist between Development and Operations.
Secure Access Service Edge (SASE): A Reflection Of Our Times
There’s a buzz in the industry about a new type of product that promises to change the way we secure and network our organizations. It is called the Secure Access Service Edge (SASE). It was first mentioned by Gartner, Inc. in its hype cycle for networking. Since then Barracuda highlighted SASE in a recent PR update and Zscaler also discussed it in their earnings call. Most recently, Cato Networks announced that it was mentioned by Gartner as a “sample vendor” in the hype cycle.
DevOps Deeper Dive: DevOps Arms Race Heats Up
A massive amount of capital is pouring into DevOps companies as organizations finally begin to realize the extent to which they depend on software. While Marc Andreesen may have penned his famous “Software Is Eating the World” opinion piece way back in 2011, it’s only now that many organizations are starting to realize they are software companies that also manufacture something or specialize in the delivery of some type of digital service. The most recent example of a massive injection of capital into the DevOps space came in the form of a $268 million investment in GitLab earlier this month.
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