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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…
Modern navigation systems such as those available in cars, smartphones, and high-tech gadgets have become immensely popular. They efficiently guide you to your destination with real-time information. It is cumbersome and unsafe to look at paper maps while driving. Also, one does not need to stop and ask for directions anymore. The reason navigation systems such as Google Maps are so accurate is because they use past, present, and future information effectively. Past: Navigation systems have access to a large bank of data that they…
With all the buzz surrounding “cloud migration” and other hard-to-define concepts, it’s easy for IT executives to get an “innovate or die” mentality regarding their networks and apps. As a result, teams may be tasked with sprinting to adopt cloud technologies or overhaul legacy systems simply so that they don’t fall behind the technological trend curve. But whenever network teams undertake changes of any scale without having a well-developed, data-driven strategy, they’re bound to pay a price. Unfortunately, this seems to be the case at…
The turn of the millennium brought with it a word, “digitalization,” that made businesses of all sizes – small, medium, and large – rushing to jump into the bandwagon. Digitalization chiefly meant discarding paper-based manual processes and moving to a digital platform where all data and processes are electronic. Ledgers became spreadsheets, and emails became the norm for communication. The past decade, however, has spurred businesses to go beyond digitalization. With multiple companies offering the same service, customers are increasingly spoilt for choice. This fueled…
You might have heard that multi-cloud is the future of IT. It would be more accurate to say it’s the present of IT. More than 80 percent of enterprises already have a multi-cloud strategy. But what is multi-cloud, exactly? As the name suggests, multi-cloud is an IT approach in which an organization uses multiple cloud services from more than one provider. Hybrid cloud versus multi-cloud Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud might sound like the same thing, but there is one crucial difference. With hybrid cloud, an…
