Why Should YOU, as an IT Professional, Become an ONUG Community Member? At a recent ONUG Board meeting, members shared that vendors are offering a 40 to 70% consideration/discount on infrastructure products and services when the vendor realizes they are an ONUG Community member. I was surprised to hear this. Others were surprised to hear that they were not the only ones receiving these discounts. Also surprising is that the discounting was not just from one vendor but from multiple vendors. This prompted a pretty healthy discussion about what…
Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) has come a long way since ONUG ignited the conversation about the market and practical use cases for this promising new technology just four years ago. Eighty-seven percent of 800 network management executives use or plan to use SD-WAN within the next two years, according to a March 2017 IDC survey of mid-size and large companies with at least 10 locations and representing a variety of industries. SD-WAN sales are predicted to grow at a 69 percent compound annual growth rate, reaching $8.05 billion in 2021, notes IDC’s Worldwide SD-WAN Forecast for 2017–2021.
I’ve always had a lot of respect for veterinarians, because they are masters at solving problems based purely on fuzzy symptoms that their patients cannot explain: where it hurts, how long it’s been hurting, and what events led up to the problem. Many times the patients don’t even know they are sick. Yet a vet is able to make educated guesses with the data they do have, which often results in successful diagnoses and treatments.
There is an arms race raging between cloud and IT platform providers, and the war is about to take place in the large enterprise. As Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle focus on the large enterprise market, they have traditional IT platform providers in their crosshairs; that is, HPE, Dell/EMC, Cisco, VMware, IBM, et al. Cloud providers have been hugely successful in the small to mid-sized enterprise market but have struggled in the large enterprise market, thanks to security, compliance and the overall complexity of the…
Gone are the days that large enterprise IT organizations would rely upon large vertically integrated IT vendors to sell us full stack solutions. Yes, many legacy application workloads rely upon proprietary stacks supplied from a single vendor and their ecosystem partners, but in today’s digital transformation era, IT organizations are more and more becoming solution integrators. That is, IT organizations are stitching together solutions made up of home-grown software, open source software and commercial products/modules to get the desired outcome needed for their digital business….
Kubernetes and its various commercial manifestations are getting much attention from the vendor community these days, much like OpenStack did in 2014-2016. Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications. What’s important about Kubernetes is that all the major cloud providers, such as Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, are adopting it, and there are many enterprise-based Kubernetes distributions from companies such as Rancher Labs, Docker, CoreOS, Mirantis, RedHat’s OpenShift, IBM’s Cloud Container Service, Pivotal’s PKS, Mesosphere’s…
by Kevin O’Toole Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) has come a long way since ONUG ignited the conversation about the market and practical use cases for this promising new technology just four years ago. Eighty-seven percent of 800 network management executives use or plan to use SD-WAN within the next two years, according to a March 2017 IDC survey of mid-size and large companies with at least 10 locations and representing a variety of industries. SD-WAN sales are predicted to grow at a 69 percent…
I’ve always had a lot of respect for veterinarians, because they are masters at solving problems based purely on fuzzy symptoms that their patients cannot explain: where it hurts, how long it’s been hurting, and what events led up to the problem. Many times the patients don’t even know they are sick. Yet a vet is able to make educated guesses with the data they do have, which often results in successful diagnoses and treatments.
In the study of Machine Learning, the focus is on supervised and unsupervised learning. (We will not be considering deep learning in this article.) Supervised learning, and many aspects of unsupervised learning, require the known anomalies to be available to learn from and then predict anomalies in test data using the trained models and then fine tune them through techniques such as cross-validation. In cybersecurity, one is usually looking for an anomaly in the midst of a huge amount of normal traffic or behavior. Such…
This scenario should sound familiar to you: You’ve been running IT organizations for what seems like forever and while you work tirelessly to make sure the network is working right, that everyone can access the network at all times, and that network traffic goes where it needs to when it needs to be there, the fact that you can’t control every nuance can be frustrating and impeding to your service level objectives. There’s a certain lack of control when it comes to managing WAN links…
