The Vital Role of Enterprise Performance Management in Ensuring Digital Transformation Success No matter what stage in the digital transformation journey an enterprise is at – whether relying on multi-clouds, on-premise data centers, edge computing, remote and hybrid workforces, or a combination of all of the above – the complexities of today’s environment is creating significant network and application performance challenges. The promise of greater cost efficiency, enterprise flexibility, competitive advantage and improved end-user experience is undoubtedly worth the transformation effort, but ensuring application-level performance,…
Five years ago, an infamous Gartner blog said, “The Edge will Eat the Cloud.” The gist was that while everyone was rushing to the cloud, Gartner saw a rush in the other direction – to the edge–driven by a need for lower latency and near-real-time processing. Fast forward five years, and with edge computing now forecasted to be an $800B market by 2028, it’s a perfect time to revisit the topic. So, has there been a rush to the edge? Absolutely. Is it “eating the cloud?”…
5G adoption in public mobile networks is well on the road to success, with Omdia reporting a total of 119 million 5G connections in North America by the end of 2022. However, despite the early hype, consumer 5G has not been truly transformative because for most users connection speeds are typically only 2-3 times faster than LTE. This is a far cry from the gigabit connections 5G will ultimately support, although users are realizing the benefits of improved video quality, fasters downloads, and lower latency…
ONUG member companies that are digitally transforming their businesses have varying drivers for their change. Some are industry specific, others are affected by their size and how they’ve been impacted by recent worldwide events. There are, however, a few general trends that could be affecting all businesses, including yours. Considerations include: The COVID-19 pandemic: The pace of digital transformation has accelerated as businesses adapt to remote work, e-commerce and other digital solutions. Many companies have realized that digital transformation is no longer a luxury, but…
We are all in the process of building the most powerful communication infrastructure the world has seen. It is built upon a programmable network infrastructure that delivers on demand capacity and is cloud delivered. It’s the combination of cloud native and networking technologies. Why cloud native? Just look at 5G and the wide range of Network as a Service or NaaS offerings; they are built with cloud native technologies and APIs. This new infrastructure promises to provide choices and options for corporations to accelerate their…
For decades, armies of network engineers have been mired in one-off, brute force approaches to maintaining the network (the very core of their digital businesses), anchored by each individual engineer’s personal knowledge and experience. And that personal expertise has become a badge of honor worn by many of those tenured engineers, becoming a bit of folklore along the way, essentially an ‘art’ rather than science. This ‘art’ of network management tends to result in problem resolutions that extend remediation times, incur higher levels of human…
The modern enterprise has applications and services that are distributed across on-prem, multicloud and intelligent edge environments. By 2025, 75% of the enterprise data will be created and processed at the edge. The enterprise application users are themselves becoming mobile with the hybrid work paradigm gaining ground. These drastically shifting needs of applications and users are not addressable with traditional models of networking, including traditional SDN solutions. This leads to increased pressure on the NetOps and CloudOps teams. Without the ability to provision networking for…
As businesses evolve to meet customer needs and satisfy the demands of a remote workforce, cloud computing adoption has grown at a record pace. With forecasted market size growth in cloud computing rising from 545.8B in 2022 to a market size of 1,240.9B in 2027, the demand for networking expertise is growing. Today’s enterprise requires networking professionals who have the skills to adeptly provision, implement, process, analyze and secure the cloud infrastructure. As cloud adoption soars, how has the role of the networking professional changed,…
At a time when large enterprises are building out their digital infrastructures and facing added complexities, keeping ahead of networking innovations and new technologies is critical to the long term survival and health of today’s enterprise. Beyond leveraging the advances in networking solutions, keeping an organization’s network secure and operational is a top concern. According to Statista, a single network outage can cost an organization upwards of $301,000 per hour. Your networking organization needs up-to-date skills training that aligns with operational objectives to leverage…
There is a major shift taking place in the market toward networking teams becoming the center of the universe again–just like during the internet build phase. We’re seeing a new focus on the golden era of networking take shape at ONUG. Networking teams are becoming empowered as they take on the responsibility of cloud networking and other select cloud infrastructure domains from centralized cloud platform groups; some call this group the Cloud Center of Excellence or CCoE. Why are CCoE platform teams giving up networking…
