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Cloud deployment is in a critical period. The entire process must be highly agile and seamlessly integrated into the existing architecture to create a platform that allows users to access your services on demand. Since technology is constantly developing, you also need to keep track of the latest innovations to make your cloud deployment strategy successful. To stay informed about recent developments, these are the top five cloud deployment best practices for IT enterprises in 2018 you should look out for. 1. Creating Agile Environments…
Every Global 2000 corporation is on its own digital transformation journey that’s unique to its industry, market, corporate strengths and positioning. Make no mistake about it, this a global economic mega trend. Every corporate board in the Global 2000 is focused on defining their digital strategy, thanks to greater margins and market capitalization valuations that being digital offers. Consider this: analyst firms predict that 41% of enterprise revenue will come from digital business by 2020; that’s only two years away. The digital economy supports some…
Hybrid multi-cloud models of infrastructure are the new norm. More and more companies are choosing a multi-cloud model as their primary strategy. The “State of the Cloud” report by RightScale shows that 81% of enterprises preferred multi-cloud models and 51% used hybrid models in 2018. In some cases, the popularity of multi-cloud infrastructure comes down to a company’s desire to decrease dependability on only just one vendor when leveraging the model to add higher value to the enterprise. In others, it is to cut expenses…
Over the past several years, the ONUG Community narrative has been focused on practical digital transformation strategies in the Global 2000 that include its underpinning technologies plus IT organizational, process, culture and skills. We are all struggling with how to stitch together the new software building blocks that make up the digital enterprise. Hybrid-multi-cloud, a secure internet, machine learning/artificial intelligence, automated and software-driven infrastructure are but some of the building blocks that have come into focus at ONUG. But it’s become crystal clear that on the path…
Digital transformation, multi-cloud adoption and the addition of IoT endpoints are driving the requirements for new network architectures. Software-based networks are an essential component of agile IT systems as they provide improved scalability, interoperability and automation. Networks in the data center, branch and campus (each with their unique requirements) will need to be upgraded/redesigned to support the requirements of a multi-cloud world. The Rise of Multi-Cloud Wikipedia defines multi-cloud as the use of two or more infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platforms – typically Amazon…
We get asked all the time what “AI for IT” really means. Is it just a fancy way of saying “automation”, or is there more to the equation? Why is it so prevalent now? Well, if we were to put together an “AI for IT” manifesto, it would go something like this: … IT has never been more important, but IT must do more with less Every company is a digital company. Every organization is connected to everything. This makes IT more strategic than ever…
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…
Containers are a hot topic these days, allowing developers to be more agile and less dependent on infrastructure by making their applications portable and enabling them to extract more juice out of their compute. Many application teams are thinking of migrating their existing apps to containers or at least dipping their toes into building new apps. When a team starts looking at containers, the journey generally starts with a developer getting their hands dirty with Docker running on a single VM or a development laptop….
Digital transformation is coming. We hear about how organizations are using it to streamline their processes. We talk to forward-thinking CTOs and CIOs that are leading the charge to change their businesses to be more agile and responsive. But why? There’s a lot of capital tied up in legacy IT. In the US federal government, 75% of the $80 billion IT budget is spent on maintaining legacy equipment. For enterprises, 72% of their budgets is spent on the existing IT infrastructure. The remainder goes to…
You’re about to be disrupted by cloud, whether you adopted it or not. Cloud. It’s been ten years since pundits and press alike declared it the greatest disruption to IT since the turn of the century. And it has been. Cloud has disrupted business models, upset the apple cart of IT, and changed the way we look at everything about applications. We’ve gone from the question of “build or buy” to “build, buy, or subscribe”. Be faster! they said. Be more efficient! they said. Go…
