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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…
As businesses evolve to meet customer needs and satisfy the demands of a remote workforce, cloud computing adoption has grown at a record pace. With forecasted market size growth in cloud computing rising from 545.8B in 2022 to a market size of 1,240.9B in 2027, the demand for networking expertise is growing. Today’s enterprise requires networking professionals who have the skills to adeptly provision, implement, process, analyze and secure the cloud infrastructure. As cloud adoption soars, how has the role of the networking professional changed,…
At a time when large enterprises are building out their digital infrastructures and facing added complexities, keeping ahead of networking innovations and new technologies is critical to the long term survival and health of today’s enterprise. Beyond leveraging the advances in networking solutions, keeping an organization’s network secure and operational is a top concern. According to Statista, a single network outage can cost an organization upwards of $301,000 per hour. Your networking organization needs up-to-date skills training that aligns with operational objectives to leverage…
There is a major shift taking place in the market toward networking teams becoming the center of the universe again–just like during the internet build phase. We’re seeing a new focus on the golden era of networking take shape at ONUG. Networking teams are becoming empowered as they take on the responsibility of cloud networking and other select cloud infrastructure domains from centralized cloud platform groups; some call this group the Cloud Center of Excellence or CCoE. Why are CCoE platform teams giving up networking…
Introduction A multi-cloud or hybrid strategy gives enterprises the freedom to use the best possible cloud native services for revenue generating workloads. Many organizations are utilizing multi-cloud deployment use cases like Increased reliability Improved security Cloud bursting Disaster recovery Vendor neutral solution Utilizing differentiated solutions from providers The cloud vendors provide common solutions like compute, storage and networking solutions with cost efficiencies. Organisations today consume multi-cloud solutions for enterprise IT services like email, Salesforce, PaaS from Microsoft etc. for applications. Study from Flexera shows most…
Introduction Modern applications are composed of individual microservices that need to run in one or more locations (cloud regions or edges). On the one hand the loading at each of these microservices can vary with seasonality and other external events that influence the workloads. On the other hand, it is assumed that there is sufficient capacity to handle the load arriving at each of these locations. The platform team can only create static load balancing profiles based on the offerings from various cloud providers resulting…
The business environment over the last few years has had a significant impact on cloud adoption and spending. As companies accelerated their network builds to accommodate hybrid and remote workers, they quickly rolled out new cloud services and solutions. Gartner originally predicted that in 2023 worldwide public cloud spending will grow 20.7% to total $591.8 billion, up from $490.3 billion in 2022 and worldwide spending on IT would grow 5.1% in 2023. As recently as last month, Gartner slashed those IT estimates and is forecasting…
ONUG’s Co-Founder and Co-Chair Nick Lippis, in his January 2023 blog post, stated directly that “the IT Spend Party is over”. 2023 will usher in a period of flat spending and a desire to optimize and contain IT and cloud costs while still scaling infrastructures to meet business needs. Enterprises will undergo optimization exercises to utilize the capital investments that were made over the past three years of rapid growth. Balancing cloud scalability and security with cost containment requires careful planning and management along with…
Using policy as code as the core of managing risk and automation was the topic at one session at the ONUG Fall 2022 Session. Titled Managing Risk and Automation with Policy as Code, the panel included: Don Duet (Chairman & Co-Founder, Concourse Labs) Ruoh-Yann Huang (SVP, Global Head of Network Automation and Telemetry, Bank of America) James Walker (Managing Director, Network Services, Bank of America) Yesim Akdeniz (Managing Director for Network Services, Citi) Xiaobo Long (Sr. VP of Cloud Platform Security Engineering, Citi) Alexandra Shulman-Peleg…
It’s hard to escape the news of reduction in force (RIF) and cautionary forward-looking corporate performance of large tech companies in the news this quarter. But note that there is a huge distinction between enterprise tech and consumer tech. Many of the large tech companies participate in both massive markets. Amazon is an online consumer retailer and offers enterprise compute services via its AWS business unit. Microsoft sells gaming and other consumer productivity software as well as enterprise compute services via Azure. Google is mostly…
