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The world of networking is undergoing a major shift over the past few years. Micro services and containers in application stack has put new challenges to networking engineers across enterprises to build a faster and leaner network stack. Greater visibility into end-to-end network flow and granular control is another big requirement. It means that organizations need to keep up with the agility of ever-changing application landscape. In fast-paced environment, network agility can be achieved through Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Programmable…
The more networks have evolved and the more complex data center architectures have become, organizations are realizing they’ve got time bombs latent in their network, just waiting for the right set of circumstances to take down critical portions of their infrastructure. In the past, a configuration error might cause a blip in the network that went unnoticed. With today’s networks so intimately tied to business, each error can cost many millions of dollars and become front-page news. A surprisingly simple way out of this dilemma…
If software is indeed moving to the cloud, new tools will be required for debugging when errors culminate into outages. This is due to the reliance on higher level abstractions through monitoring now that there is no physical access to the servers running the applications. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the types of assurances (and startup solutions) enterprises will need in a cloud native world to guarantee uptime. Site Reliability Engineering is a functional role in most businesses today, but has seen a…
Public clouds can be a blessing and a curse. They’re easy to use in limited ways, but hard to turn into a strategic resource. To make them an effective part of an enterprise infrastructure, there’s work that has to be done and it’s not insubstantial. Most enterprises are using multiple cloud providers through relationships that look more like accidents than careful planning. A development team started using one provider, while a partner had resources in another. A mobile app had its back end in a…
SDxCentral Research is pleased to announce the availability of our 2018 edition of our Next Gen Data Center Networking Report. After the enormous success of last year’s inaugural edition, we’ve been hard at work updating the report for this year. Cloud computing, software-defined networking (SDN), and network virtualization have radically changed the way data centers are being networked. Networking platforms need to be designed and built to handle the massive scale of today’s web and cloud applications – with flexible software control that can dynamically react to changing…
How many networks are you running today? And how many vendors are involved in your network infrastructure? Today’s IT teams are using whatever networks are the fastest and most cost-efficient to deliver applications. This includes public internet, MPLS, WAN, LAN, WiFi and more, all depending on business needs and locations. Public internet use has grown in enterprises because of its lower cost. There are tradeoffs, of course, like the lack of performance guarantees or much in the way of provider promises. As public internet use…
In the large enterprise, IT-delivered productivity has plateaued at automating the real or physical world workflows. In the past, IT could deliver productivity gains in the 4% range—a huge corporate and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contribution. But IT professionals have squeezed all the juice from that orange. Today, most IT business leaders expect 1 to 0% productivity gain through traditional IT, such as large enterprise back office applications like CRM, databases, etc., and office productivity tools. At ONUG, it’s been known that productivity gains and…
The ONUG Community is in the vanguard of migrating of enterprise IT applications to hybrid multi-cloud environments. While the business benefits are real, this effort is not without its challenges. Hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure is cloud-scale, confronting IT managers with application performance management challenges beyond the capabilities of existing tools and techniques for traditional enterprise IT. The good news is that in this new era, IT managers can leverage the same cloud-scale technologies enabling this migration for ensuring application performance in what are proving to be…
The White House is taking aggressive action against China for illegal trade practices as well as intellectual property theft. It’s important to understand why and implement countermeasures to ensure your data is safe. Drive through middle America and you’ll see closed factories whose products are now manufactured in China. For the past few decades China has implemented an aggressive policy of stealing manufacturing technology and then providing zero interest loans to Chinese companies to re-create American products. The transfer of wealth to China from the…
As we celebrate the 30 year anniversary of one of the networking industry’s most prolific standards, 802.11, I can’t help but think about what new standards will drive the adoption of IT for the next 30 years. As we all know, standards are not only critical for getting new technologies going. They are also essential for widespread adoption, as they set the bar for quality, innovation, and multi-vendor interoperability. So, is there a new technology that promises to change the IT landscape forever, but requires…
