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A turn of phrase I like quite a bit is describing something as a “quake” blog, book, movie, or tech. It refers to a ground-shifting idea or concept that changes my worldview. The three biggest “quakes” I have had in my 25-year career were Linux, Puppet, and GitHub Actions, and their stories are all interwoven with me personally and the technology community at large. On Wednesday, May 17th at 3:30 PM CT I will be teaching and training the attendees of ONUG Spring 2023 on…
A long time ago in a NOC far, far away, performance monitoring tools were designed to monitor critical on-premise assets. The process of onboarding devices and data was largely manual, and oftentimes meant visibility was designed to be partial at best; monitoring critical assets was enough. When something went wrong somewhere beyond the scope of the platform (which is generally where things went terribly wrong), engineers went looking the old-fashioned way. Cue scrambles, late nights, and finger-pointing With the ubiquity of SaaS, the increase in…
The Vital Role of Enterprise Performance Management in Ensuring Digital Transformation Success No matter what stage in the digital transformation journey an enterprise is at – whether relying on multi-clouds, on-premise data centers, edge computing, remote and hybrid workforces, or a combination of all of the above – the complexities of today’s environment is creating significant network and application performance challenges. The promise of greater cost efficiency, enterprise flexibility, competitive advantage and improved end-user experience is undoubtedly worth the transformation effort, but ensuring application-level performance,…
Five years ago, an infamous Gartner blog said, “The Edge will Eat the Cloud.” The gist was that while everyone was rushing to the cloud, Gartner saw a rush in the other direction – to the edge–driven by a need for lower latency and near-real-time processing. Fast forward five years, and with edge computing now forecasted to be an $800B market by 2028, it’s a perfect time to revisit the topic. So, has there been a rush to the edge? Absolutely. Is it “eating the cloud?”…
5G adoption in public mobile networks is well on the road to success, with Omdia reporting a total of 119 million 5G connections in North America by the end of 2022. However, despite the early hype, consumer 5G has not been truly transformative because for most users connection speeds are typically only 2-3 times faster than LTE. This is a far cry from the gigabit connections 5G will ultimately support, although users are realizing the benefits of improved video quality, fasters downloads, and lower latency…
IT teams around the world are being asked to reduce spending due to the macro-economic environment, but meanwhile inflation is already stretching budgets. So, how do you cut spending when expenses are rising sharply? Cutting spending across the enterprise might bring an organization within budget, but it also can negatively affect employees’ digital experience and productivity. IT teams need a way to streamline spending by optimizing cloud and network traffic and eliminating IT waste like bloated software spend and unnecessary hardware replacements. Here are a…
ONUG member companies that are digitally transforming their businesses have varying drivers for their change. Some are industry specific, others are affected by their size and how they’ve been impacted by recent worldwide events. There are, however, a few general trends that could be affecting all businesses, including yours. Considerations include: The COVID-19 pandemic: The pace of digital transformation has accelerated as businesses adapt to remote work, e-commerce and other digital solutions. Many companies have realized that digital transformation is no longer a luxury, but…
We are all in the process of building the most powerful communication infrastructure the world has seen. It is built upon a programmable network infrastructure that delivers on demand capacity and is cloud delivered. It’s the combination of cloud native and networking technologies. Why cloud native? Just look at 5G and the wide range of Network as a Service or NaaS offerings; they are built with cloud native technologies and APIs. This new infrastructure promises to provide choices and options for corporations to accelerate their…
For decades, armies of network engineers have been mired in one-off, brute force approaches to maintaining the network (the very core of their digital businesses), anchored by each individual engineer’s personal knowledge and experience. And that personal expertise has become a badge of honor worn by many of those tenured engineers, becoming a bit of folklore along the way, essentially an ‘art’ rather than science. This ‘art’ of network management tends to result in problem resolutions that extend remediation times, incur higher levels of human…
The modern enterprise has applications and services that are distributed across on-prem, multicloud and intelligent edge environments. By 2025, 75% of the enterprise data will be created and processed at the edge. The enterprise application users are themselves becoming mobile with the hybrid work paradigm gaining ground. These drastically shifting needs of applications and users are not addressable with traditional models of networking, including traditional SDN solutions. This leads to increased pressure on the NetOps and CloudOps teams. Without the ability to provision networking for…
