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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…
If you are a network professional, you know full well how enterprise networks are being transformed. Traditional network perimeters are rapidly expanding because of digital transformation, clouds, distributed and mobile users, and IoT devices. This is no small matter. Think “Big Bang” theory, where the universe expanded across the cosmos, and matter formed superclusters, galaxies, planets and stars, all separate, yet still bonded in space. Well, okay, maybe that example is a bit too dramatic, but IT pros are coming to grips with the massive…
Image credit The network must change to support digital transformation. New customer experiences, remote workers, IoT devices, and distant cloud infrastructures force IT management to rethink operations. Meanwhile, new applications, automation, AI/ML, digital devices, and robotics all demand enormous bandwidth, faster throughput, and unflinching availability. This shift requires IT to rein in their expenses or sincerely affect the enterprise bottom line. Redirecting traffic over MPLS to a core location is no longer viable—scaling the model is expensive and the performance unsatisfactory. Enabling a WAN edge,…
One of the main challenges when working on any automation project is writing the automation templates. Each cloud provider has its own template language, which means that you can’t reuse anything already written by other frameworks. This makes many automation projects substantially longer than they would have been otherwise. This blog piece explores how an ‘automation-first’ approach addresses this challenge by allowing the reuse of existing artifacts from different frameworks—substantially speeding up the time it takes to achieve end-to-end automation. It also discusses how Cloudify…
Broadcom is a proud sponsor of ONUG Fall 2019 in NYC. Join us as we showcase how to simplify Hybrid-Cloud and SD-WAN deployments by combining AI and ML with rich granular data captured at the chip level for one-of-a-kind AIOps analytics and automation. The highly complex nature of today’s modern hybrid IT architectures continues to present increasing challenges for teams relying on traditional, siloed or domain-specific monitoring approaches to deliver a reliable digital experience. With these disparate tools, it will remain extremely difficult and time…
