The Red Hot Cloud, JSON Schema Data Transformations & Upping Your SD-WAN Game
Week of July 13, 2020
Cloud Is Red Hot in the COVID-19 Era
As the days tick by and the gloomy ramifications of COVID-19 become more apparent, one harsh truth has become crystal clear: Industries that have invested in digital transformation stand a better chance of recovery and survival than others.
Industry Voices—Raynovich: Itential Pushes JSON Schemas for the Telco Cloud
This week, Itential announced a new set of tools called Pre-Built Transformations designed to help service providers and enterprises automate their networking systems. The Transformations can be used to take standard data models and APIs and program orchestration and connectivity of devices and systems by using a flexible data schema in efforts to speed up the integration and automation of multi-domain networks.
Up Your SD-WAN Game With Automation and Business Outcome-Driven Orchestration
One of the biggest challenges for organizations adopting SD-WAN is that issues like provisioning, meshed VPN, and the complexities of managing multiple network edges can quickly become more of an IT burden than originally anticipated. For example, workflows such as cloud connectivity or tying security enforcement to specific connections can be time-consuming, especially when they need continuous management and configuration adjustments.
Will Most Edge Providers Fall Into the Abyss?
Edge computing is spreading like wildfire, but once the wind dies down and fuel runs out, this season of heightened activity and unmet opportunity will be contained. Hundreds of companies from various market segments have an edge computing offering or strategy, and yet relatively few have cracked the code and built a sustainable business.
Why Enterprises Choose Multi-Cloud Environments
Enterprises can use multiple clouds to construct a diverse and complex cloud stack, and it’s not a new idea. Once the technology caught up to the needs of enterprises, multi-cloud computing became an appealing option for IT professionals looking to get the most out of their IT architecture.