At ONUG Spring 2019 in Dallas, members of the Hybrid Multi-Cloud Steering Committee reported on the results of a survey of enterprise users in the ONUG Community about barriers to hybrid multi-cloud adoption. The survey, conducted prior to the conference by 451 Research, ranked the inhibitors preventing enterprises from proceeding with a hybrid cloud deployment: These are valuable data points for the steering committee in terms of setting overall objectives for the ONUG Working Groups, but what the survey did not attempt to do was…
Digital innovation is redefining networks to improve customer and worker experience, accelerate the development and delivery of critical applications, and gather and process data to more effectively meet modern customer demands. New cloud infrastructures and SaaS solutions, IoT devices, and highly mobile workers are all the result of this transformation. Completing this picture requires extending these applications and services to branch offices, remote retail locations, and distributed classrooms and campuses. Traditionally rigid WAN connections, such as MPLS, need to be replaced with solutions that enable…
Automation in networking is casting new implications on the way networks are engineered, structured, designed, coded, and even thought of. Let’s see if low-code and closed loop dovetail automation into intent-based networks. As the networking landscape transformed from a siloed, rigid, monolithic and slow beast; to a fast bird that can be accelerated with Software-based Networking (SDN) and intelligent networking hardware, the idea of Intent-Based Networking (IBN) started to seem more like a reality. This paradigm of networking – IBN- would be truly disruptive and…
Talk to cloud providers about interoperability, and they get an allergic reaction, a bad allergic reaction … one that comes on within milliseconds. I get their reasoning. The market is moving too fast, and creating standards will only slow down the pace of innovation. Or you’ll hear “we’ve invested so much in innovation, why should we give it away?” Or “we’re so far ahead of the market, opening it up will only erode our share that we risked capital and brand to gain.” It doesn’t…
You’re on a corporate web conferencing call using Zoom, Webex, Goto Meeting, BlueJeans, Google Talk, Skype, etc and all of a sudden it stops working. The complaints start to roll in, business is slowed, tempers flare and the first thing operational personnel think is, “what the heck, it was working fine yesterday!” Was there a configuration change, is a circuit down, is the wifi controller off-line, was there a change to the firewall, is the SaaS application down, are we experiencing a DDoS attack or …
In fact, even the word Information in IT is starting to disappear in organization titles. Rather than Chief Information Officer organization, titles that include the words “Enterprise Technology” are starting to pop up in the Global 2000. The main reason is that “IT” is synonymous with productivity improvement through information technology, i.e., email, databases, legacy applications, etc., but much of that improvement has already been gained. Corporate productivity and value is now gained through automation and servicing digital customers. At ONUG, we debate and search out…
The AI era is accelerating. AI is no longer just a data model in a lab. In addition, the industry is constantly exploring the way to implement AI applications. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of government, finance, Internet, new retail, new manufacturing, and healthcare industries with AI implementation will exceed 30% in the future three years. As AI is coming, is the underlying network infrastructure that provides key support for AI development already ready? The algorithm, computing power, and data are the three driving…
With the introduction of the Riverbed SaaS Accelerator service it gives us a reason to consider where we’ve been, where we are today, and the opportunities ahead as enterprises make a full shift away from old-style technologies toward modern cloud-based architectures and SaaS applications to drive greater businesses outcomes. Today, enterprises have many more choices available to offset the accumulating expense of managing and maintaining massive data center architectures at scale, and on-premises applications. Today’s enterprise has multi-cloud environments deployed to address different workloads, and…
The great conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein said: “To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.” And he must have known a thing or two about orchestrating. That quote certainly rings true in networking today, as enterprises implement SD-WAN under the intense time pressure that is common in IT these days. And that leads us to automation and orchestration, which are closely interlinked. Automation Automation of course is a top priority in IT these days. But what do…
An organization that is transitioning to a cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) should immediately consider a shift towards a new model of security, namely continuous control and enforcement of secure configuration of cloud services. Importantly, this cannot be a one-time event but must be monitored and enforced constantly, as the software-defined nature of the cloud leads to frequent changes. Misconfiguring a cloud database, storage asset, or search engine can have massive consequences, especially if it…
