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AI and ML will fundamentally change our lives, and there’s no shortage of buzz and hype around that. In the case of AI, it can be difficult to separate fact from fiction and marketing hype from practical applications. We saw that in Super Bowl ads that sort of make fun of AI and robots. In their ad, Michelob Ultra has a robot that’s working out better than the fit humans, who eventually have their revenge. Amazon had the help from Harrison Ford and Forest Whitaker,…
It is overly simplistic to think that all enterprise workloads should run in public cloud data centers. Today’s digital enterprise journey is much more complicated than that because the strategies involve a hybrid mix of public and private clouds, legacy environments, applications or platform layer, and a broad spectrum of computing resources. Many enterprises are using the services of the public cloud to some extent, and they choose to deploy their workloads on multiple clouds (instead of settling for just one provider). At ONUG Spring…
Traffic steering classifies traffic and matches application requirements with network characteristics, conditions and behaviors. It’s similar to a car’s GPS or Waze effect that directs drivers to the best route for their destination, based on conditions like congestion, accidents and priority payload. SD-WAN enables real-time application traffic steering over any type of link, such as broadband, LTE and MPLS, assigning pre-defined policies based upon business intent. Steering policies support many different application types, making intelligent decisions about how WAN links are utilized, and which paths are…
SD-WAN 2.0 is Inherently a Multi-Domain Solution SD-WAN is driving a multi-domain, multi-controller environment Multi-Cloud is the reality for most enterprises, including the adoption of SaaS-based enterprise software platforms Treating the network as a separate ‘silo’ will not harvest the full benefits of an automation strategy Recent innovation in the networking domain is due in part to a market shift from “speeds and feeds,” to one focused on innovative services and a programmable network. As the demand for internet access spikes and cloud applications increase,…
Just a few years ago, the most frequent challenges experienced by branch offices were the result of a slow connection to the central data center. Over time, this grew to include the inability to deploy reliable latency-sensitive applications and services at the branch, such as VoIP or video conferencing. While MPLS was adopted to resolve these connectivity and performance issues, those connections were also rigid and static, requiring critical data to exist at a single location. Today, not only do branch transactions, workflows, applications, and…
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) is creating new opportunities for businesses and consumers. Indeed, PwC, a major consultancy, expects AI to contribute over $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030. At the same time, within the data centre, a move to micro-services-based software architectures, distributed storage, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) workloads are pushing east-west traffic to previously unseen heights. Research predicts that the AI adoption rate will reach 86% by 2025. This will also have a big impact on the data centre network, when…
Digital transformation is accelerating within the enterprise, as businesses seek to improve agility, avoid disruption, and gain competitive advantage. As part of this transformation, enterprises are increasingly leveraging cloud-based applications and services and embracing mobility and a distributed workforce. Bandwidth consumption is dramatically expanding to accommodate SaaS, and the prospect of rising transport costs and suboptimal employee digital experience is creating greater pressure on enterprises to move away from their legacy WAN in favor of one optimized for the cloud. The WAN Bends to the…
There’s an old retail adage that the customer is king. Well, extending that ideology into today’s digital business, we might say the user is king. Whether it’s customers, partners, or employees, they’ve all come to expect an application experience that is always-on. They don’t care if the source of the problem is the application or the network: things should just work. Today’s modern enterprise is in the midst of a network and cloud transformation. Networks are supporting more business-critical applications than ever before and at…
The Internet is perhaps the greatest of mankind’s infrastructure achievements. It has virtually unlimited use cases. For Enterprises, it has become an integral part of connectivity, with over 90% of SaaS access leveraging best-efforts public Internet. In fact, many SD-WAN deployments rely exclusively on Internet for connectivity. There are a growing number of Enterprise use cases, however, that have exposed the inherent limitations of these public networks: applications that rely on real-time protocols, like video and voice; modern SaaS and IaaS, particularly over long-haul distances,…
Multi-cloud is marching its way beyond “buzz word” to a real deployment scenario. Some key drivers behind this new normal include: Preference: Different internal teams can have different preferences when picking clouds due to each team’s competency and specialization No lock-in: To avoid vendor “lock-in” and reduce reliance on one cloud provider, not only to gain stronger negotiating power but also help to build a more resilient infrastructure Efficiency: To promote operational efficiency that generates positive business outcomes, e.g. enabling rapid migration when pricing or…
