Top Infrastructure Trends, the State of AIOps & SD-WAN Roundup
Week of December 8th, 2019
Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Trends Impacting Infrastructure and Operations for 2020
Gartner, Inc. highlighted the trends that infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders must start preparing for to support digital infrastructure in 2020.“This past year, infrastructure trends focused on how technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) or edge computing might support rapidly growing infrastructure and support business needs at the same time,” said Ross Winser, senior research director at Gartner. “While those demands are still present, our 2020 list of trends reflect their ‘cascade effects,’ many of which are not immediately visible today.”
Going Beyond Zero Touch Network Security Automation
In the age of rapid business transformation, organizations are continuing to digitize their operating models to improve efficiency and productivity. To manage their growing assets on-premise and in the cloud, they need to use automated network security management processes that can protect their systems from cyber threats, without slowing down business innovation and performance. Unfortunately, multiple security challenges stand in the way of that objective. Digital technology continues to evolve, it’s growing at a rate that outpaces consumers ability to protect it. This issue is enhanced by two growing problems: the IT personnel shortage and human-introduced errors.
The State Of AIOps: What IT Can Expect In 2020
AIOps is becoming the go-to technology for unifying monitoring capabilities because it presents a single source of the truth, according to industry observers. In fact, some 68 percent of the almost 100 IT leaders that participated in the inaugural meeting of the AIOps Exchange forum said they have active AIOps projects underway. Enterprises continue to struggle with monitoring their portfolios, the exchange’s survey showed. The three top monitoring problems included too many disparate, siloed tools; lack of coverage of their entire IT environment; and an over-reliance on rules-based solutions.
SD-WAN Roundup: VMware, Silver Peak Lead Latest Gartner Rankings
Gartner honored VMware and 18 other vendors in its latest WAN Edge Infrastructure Magic Quadrant. The research firm lists VMware and Silver Peak as the two companies in its “Leaders” category. VMware leads the pack, as it has in several other studies that cover the software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) market.
The Five States Of Ready
In today’s data-driven, digital business landscape, businesses have little choice but to jump on the transformation bandwagon. That, of course, is often easier said than done. The following examination of readiness will help business leaders through the process of transforming from how to get started to what actions are needed to elevate, innovate, and disrupt.
Three Key Considerations For CIOs When Pursuing IoT Initiatives
Given the disruption IoT initiatives can cause when they are introduced it’s vital that CIOs push for involvement in their business’ IoT strategies from the start. Subbu Iyer, CMO, Riverbed Technology, offers three key considerations for CIOs pursuing IoT initiatives.
IT Security Best Practices For DevOps, Cloud And More
Technology is in constant motion, making it difficult for enterprise IT shops to maintain steadfast security. Explore ways to protect DevOps, microservices and cloud environments.
Can We Do Without DevOps?
Recently, DevOps has received so much hype and every respectable company sees it as its duty to have a DevOps team on and running. It is considered to be so beneficial to any company that a non-technician scrolling down posts at any tech website would think of it as a universal remedy for all the corporate diseases ever possible. However, given that a definition of DevOps varies from company to company and no one exactly knows what a true DevOps team should do, isn’t there some misconception between the praise that DevOps has been receiving and the real output? Let’s dig deeper and decide for ourselves.
Secure SD-WAN: The Security Vendors And Their SD-WAN Offerings
During its inception, we had the early adopters and pure SD-WAN players. Soon it became obvious that something was missing, and that missing component was “security.” However, security vendors have highlighted the importance of security from the very beginning. Today, the market seems to be moving in the direction where the security vendors are focusing on delivering SD-WAN features around pervasive security. The Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure has made a substantial prediction. It states, “By 2024, 50 percent of new firewall purchases in distributed enterprises will utilize SD-WAN features with the growing adoption of cloud-based services, up from less than 20 percent today.”
Five Top Cybersecurity And DevOps Trends For 2020
As we head into 2020, it’s clear that nothing much has changed in the cybersecurity community: threats are still very real, and the hunger for experienced security professionals remains high. Experts suggest that the coming year’s landscape will feel very much like a continuation of 2019, as far as cybersecurity and DevOps roles are concerned. Let’s break down some of the core issues facing the cybersecurity arena in 2020.
DevOps: Turning The Focus From Tools To People
Organizations that are adopting DevOps practices are getting more done, and faster. DevOps is about collaboration and continuous software delivery, and with one team, made up of cross-functional individuals all working together, DevOps organizations are delivering quality products, more quickly, with improved functionality and innovation, and with less complexity. However, companies are still assuming that DevOps is about tooling and that it is a specialization domain, says Freddy Mahhumane, head Of DevOps at Absa.
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