Disaggregation: The Key Driver for Cognitive Multi-Cloud Infrastructure

The principle of disaggregation is fundamental to both software-defined networking and software-defined application infrastructure. Yet disaggregation presents serious challenges for network operations, IT operations and DevOps teams. At the network layer, SDN enables separation of the control plane from the data plane and the network operating system (NOS) from the underlying switching hardware. Programmable merchant silicon enables disaggregation at the chip level. The P4 language can be used to generate different firmware loads in order to implement specialized networking functions. Monolithic applications are now disaggregated…

Retooling IT Operations with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

The ONUG Community is in the vanguard of migrating of enterprise IT applications to hybrid multi-cloud environments. While the business benefits are real, this effort is not without its challenges. Hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure is cloud-scale, confronting IT managers with application performance management challenges beyond the capabilities of existing tools and techniques for traditional enterprise IT. The good news is that in this new era, IT managers can leverage the same cloud-scale technologies enabling this migration for ensuring application performance in what are proving to be…