The Value of SD-WAN, Low-Code Network Automation & Securing 5G
Week of January 26th, 2020
Three Ways SD-WAN Can Improve WAN Performance
Software-defined WAN, or SD-WAN, offers companies a variety of operational benefits. Among the most important is the opportunity to improve WAN bandwidth. This is a key factor for businesses as rich applications and VoIP continue to consume significant bandwidth at the branch. SD-WAN’s management and control overlay can improve WAN performance and increase branch bandwidth in three ways.
Itential Launches Automation Studio
Automation of multi-domain networks is heating up. Emerging technologies such as 5G, which require large amounts of scale and virtualization, are only going to put more emphasis on this. How will this all roll out? Automation vendor Itential thinks that network operators shouldn’t have to learn code and developers shouldn’t have to waste time bringing traditional equipment under cloud control. To this end, the vendor announced a new package called Automation Studio at the Cisco Live customer/partner conference in Barcelona this week.
How To Secure Your IoT Ecosystem In The Age Of 5G
The Internet of Things is becoming an integral part of business and daily life, affecting everything from monitoring products in a warehouse to tracking your heart rate and sleeping patterns. Gartner predicts that by the end of this year, 5.8 billion enterprise and automotive IoT endpoints will be in use. And now, with deployment of 5G on the horizon and the massive expansion of IoT devices, a new security challenge is emerging.
How SD-WAN Is Converging Network, Security And AI
SD-WANs (software-defined wide-area networks) are often praised for uniting the network and security functions into one solution, but there is actually a bigger story of convergence. Recently, some vendors and solutions are converging the network, security and artificial intelligence under the SD-WAN umbrella, giving way for AI-powered insights, virtual assistants and augmented management. With these additions, SD-WAN is starting to look like autonomous networking.
Netrounds, Itential Demo Automation in Hybrid and Multi-cloud Environments
Netrounds this week announced ‘Zero Touch Provisioning and Testing’ − a Proof of Concept (PoC) conducted in partnership with Itential that demonstrates the drastic benefits that global enterprises and communication service providers (CSPs) can achieve with network automation solutions.
SD-WAN Strategy: What Are Service Providers Prioritizing?
As the rollout of commercial SD-WAN activities gathers momentum, new challenges – and solutions – are arising. Reducing complexity, meeting stringent security demands, and efficiently managing multiple vendors are top of mind for service providers. To address this, robust SD-WAN strategies must be implemented. Here, we take a deep dive into service providers’ current plans and expectations for SD-WAN, and their predictions for the future.
The Top Four Things To Monitor In Your Data Center
New technologies are constantly reshaping the state of modern networking. This simple fact can be applied to many areas of today’s digital business landscape. Whether it’s SD-WAN, automation, edge computing or any other major IT initiative, today’s networks are influenced by new technologies every year, evolving rapidly and becoming more complex all the while. Network performance and security have never been so important, as businesses increasingly rely on their IT infrastructure in order to deliver positive end-user and customer experience, and compete in the market.
Implementing DevOps Goes Beyond Technology
The implementation of DevOps is primarily toward a change of process. All you need is to break down the feed store and bring in the competing individual inducements to acquire the actual benefits from DevOps. Regarding the change of process, it will either be embraced by those who are making the change and succeed, or it will get rejected and eventually fail.
Stateless Unveils Top Networking And Interconnectivity Predictions For 2020
Stateless, Inc., the company reinventing network connectivity, has announced its 2020 networking and connectivity predictions. Stateless based its insights for 2020 and beyond on its recognition that traditional networking and interconnectivity approaches are not handling the pressures being placed on traditional computer networking. The challenges of on-demand compute and storage, the migration of enterprise workloads across multiple cloud services, the imminence of 5G and more, all require changes in the way networks are built, managed and how they grow.
Cisco Software Fortifies Industrial IoT Security
Cisco is looking to better protect myriad edge-attached IoT devices with new security software that promises to protect industrial assets in one of the most disparate of network environments. The company rolled out what it called an overarching security architecture for Industrial IoT (IIoT) environments that includes existing products but also new software called Cisco Cyber Vision, for the automated discovery of industrial assets attached to Cisco’s extensive IIoT networking portfolio.
SD-WAN Implementation Steps
In previous Forbes articles, they discussed why SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) is becoming a top choice to provide network connectivity to any branch locations in an organization. In this article, they talk about how to chart one’s course, including how to select a partner, perform a proof of concept and, finally, implement an SD-WAN solution in your organization.
IT Pros Need To Weigh In On ‘Sassy’ Security Model
Cloud services that provide both network and security intelligence are gaining popularity because they are easy to consume and they improve agility. Similarly, a model known as SD-Branch is providing network and security functionality at the WAN edge on a single platform. Both of these trends have contributed to the development by Gartner of a network architecture known as the secure-access service edge or SASE, which “converges network (for example, software-defined WAN) and network security services (such as [secure web gateways], [cloud access security brokers] and firewall as a service).” SASE (pronounced ‘sassy’) would primarily be delivered as a cloud-based service, Gartner says.
Is The Public Internet Robust Enough To Support Cloud Services?
Businesses have been using public internet as a cost-saving measure for decades, but as operations have started moving to cloud-based strategies, the money saved is being negated by lower productivity and reliability. According to Nemertes 2019 Cybersecurity Research Study the average enterprise now has more workloads (56%) sourced in external clouds than in their own data centers. In making that shift to the cloud, businesses may experience performance issues, especially when utilising public connectivity solutions. Here, Emily Nerland, channel director EMEA at Masergy, explores those issues and offers insight into when public connections should be leveraged for optimal performance.
Google Cloud Reveals Anthos Fellow Program, Cloud DevOps Engineering Certification
Google Cloud has unveiled two new certifications: the Google Cloud Certified Fellow program for Anthos expertise and the Professional Cloud DevOps (development and operations) Engineer certification. The Google Cloud Certified Fellow program is an invitation-only certification program for “technical leaders” with expertise in Anthos, the tech giant’s open hybrid- and multi-cloud application platform, and have led organizations through its adoption. And the Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification was introduced as a means of addressing a lack of skilled cloud DevOps engineers.
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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