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While organizations are benefiting from the performance, flexibility, and cost savings offered by the cloud, many enterprises have struggled with their data migration initiatives. Cloud data migration can be fraught with business risks including disruption of critical business operations, risk of data loss, and overall project complexities that often result in cost overruns or failed initiatives. According to Gartner, “Through 2022, more than 50% of data migration initiatives will exceed their budget and timeline—and potentially harm the business—because of flawed strategy and execution.” These issues…
As organizations look to innovate faster, they turn to hybrid and multi-cloud strategies that require unique cloud DNS capabilities to bolster DevOps teams. This cloud-first transition has splintered the network visibility and control that NetOps has fought to attain. Subsequently, IP conflicts arise due to overlapping IP space. This results in outages to critical services and applications. Why does NetOps feel like cloud is happening without them? Why are they struggling to manage the cloud like another data center? This post will explore the five…
Enterprises are racing to adopt EVPN-VXLAN to accommodate the networking demands of businesses in transition. As many shift from legacy monolithic architectures to modern application environments, EVPN has become the standard for facilitating traffic between domains and bridging networking needs among campus, branch, cloud, and data center. This enables old and new applications to run side-by-side, seamlessly, with built-in flexibility to scale as enterprise needs grow. The fact is that the application economy has forever-changed the foundation of business operations. Now the network is the…
There are multiple factors to consider when deploying network connectivity to support hybrid and multicloud environments. Security, scalability, and performance are chief among those. As businesses adopt more services and connect to more public clouds, management complexity and overhead increases, potentially impacting costs and delaying IT projects. Because of the pervasiveness of internet connectivity, traditionally VPN tunnels have been used to connect workloads in disparate CSP regions. However, managing VPN tunnels can be painful, and they can limit throughput and reduce performance due to unpredictable…
In 2020, organizations needed to prioritize technology investments due to the unforeseen challenges of the global pandemic. Cloud adoption and digitization had already been growing exponentially for several years, but the need to have a significant number of employees shift to work-from-home put IT plans into overdrive. Forward-thinking organizations needed to move faster with investments to ensure business growth, with a focus on three key strategic priorities: accelerate cloud initiatives and digital transformation; enable work-from-anywhere models; and strengthen operational resilience. Business and IT leaders are…
Until recently, to get their security compliance “checkbox” most companies only had to manage a handful of on-premise database types, typically with native logging or database activity monitoring (DAM) tools. To facilitate business innovation and growth, companies today have been compelled to add dozens of new database types, each with a different structure and management rules. Technology has driven a database activity explosion for most enterprises, making traditional agent-based data logging, monitoring, and auditing far too difficult and expensive to be practical. In addition, GDPR,…
Enabling Work-From-Anywhere The way employees work has changed dramatically in the past year as the world has had to quickly adopt work-from-home technologies for the sake of user productivity and business operations. While this has given employees the freedom to access data from practically anywhere, it also brings a host of challenges when it comes to mitigating business risk. These issues will be a central theme during the ONUG Fall 2020 Virtual Conference, which is why we are pleased to be an Innovator Sponsor this…
Edge continues to be a large focus for IT Professionals worldwide. As the world adjusts to a new normal, data is being consumed at an ever-increasing rate with Online Meetings, Video Presentations and SaaS software and services dominating knowledge workers’ days. The high cost of equipment and leased lines are prohibitive to IT budgets. Keeping up with the needs of a branch office in 2020 is difficult, and more importantly expensive, often forcing difficult decisions on everyday needs. SD-WAN is quickly becoming the standard deployment…
Kubernetes enables you to establish automation, creating a culture of automating wherever possible. When clients talk to me about their cloud native goals, resiliency, scale, and performance are top of mind. Their main goal, however, is speed. The client’s customers are demanding and constantly evolving their tastes and preferences. Every day, sophisticated customers expect new features, customizations, and privacy that force development teams to react with increasing velocity. The best transformation comes from within As one of the oldest technology companies, IBM has a company culture that…
The year 2020 has firmly established one thing about how people work—remote work is here to stay, and companies will need to enable remote employees as a norm and not an exception. The year has had a profound impact, starting with business continuity plans in the early days of the global pandemic but evolving to fundamental rethinking at many enterprises of the way business is conducted. Social distancing guidelines have created a decentralized, remote work force and judging by data from a recent Gallup poll…
