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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…
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…
