The Goals, Barriers, and Why Now is the Time to Invest in Network Hyperautomation
To excel in today’s economy, enterprise leaders are focused on accomplishing more with less. The accelerated pace of business transformation in the past four years has only added to the complexity of these goals. Today, with sprawling hybrid, multi-vendor, multi-domain, multi-cloud environments making up the backbone of leading enterprise networks, a focus on hyperautomation is crucial. Even after establishing the goals of an enterprise’s hyperautomation transition, the approach network teams and leadership take to accomplish these goals can lead to differing degrees of success. Hyperautomation…
The Pivotal Role of Hyperautomation in Enterprise Observability
In today’s interconnected digital landscape, network and security operations have become increasingly complex and critical for organizations across industries. The proliferation of cloud technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) and remote work environments has necessitated robust network infrastructure and heightened security measures. To effectively manage and safeguard these intricate systems, observability has emerged as a vital practice. And now, with the advent of hyperautomation, observability is undergoing a revolutionary transformation, enabling enhanced efficiency, agility and proactive decision-making. Observability refers to the ability to gain insights…
Hyperautomation and The Technological Earthquakes That Created It
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…
The Year Ahead: Into 2023
2022 Was a Launching Pad for the Programmable Network Cloud Ecosystem at ONUG As a community, we have so many 2022 accomplishments to be proud of. We laid the groundwork for a new multi-cloud era where infrastructure and developer teams gain greater choice and options to deliver business value creation. We focused on multi-cloud connectivity, automation and security with a special emphasis on Network and Security Operational Centers (NOCs and SOCs) automation through AI/ML. We started to define the programmable network cloud market that promises…
Looking Back
I like watching bad movies. I can’t help it really; I was born this way. Sometimes I’ll be sitting around with my older brothers, and we’ll talk about ridiculous movies, nonsensical movies, movies that are so stupid that they defy logic…and yet…they’re hilarious. “Did you see Tremors?” someone will ask. “Five times… at least!” is the reply. “OMG… really? Me too!” So you can see it’s a genetics issue. Nonetheless, no matter how bad the movie, there’s usually one or two redeeming moments. Maybe a…
What is the Hyperautomation Struggle?
A large portion of enterprise revenue is directly affected by the availability and security of IT infrastructure. This puts IT organizations under extreme pressure to ensure business continuity, accommodate growth, and help increase business value. But they struggle to solve one significant challenge: keeping operations running during economic recessions, natural disasters, or international conflicts, when physical access to sites is limited or outright prohibited. This challenge is exacerbated by an increase in distributed infrastructure, especially edge computing, which Gartner predicts will process 75% of enterprise…
Where did the Network Automation Blueprint come from?
If automation isn’t in your list of top three IT priorities, it should be. Many Fortune 500 organizations are recognizing the benefits automation brings to infrastructure availability and security. It keeps downtime at bay, which can cost $500k or more per hour according to Gartner. Automation also seals security gaps before a breach can occur, which IBM’s 2022 Cost of a Data Breach report shows costs an average of $4.54 million to rectify. Automation is so important now that Gartner has coined the term ‘hyperautomation’…
ONUG O&A Working Group Expands Charter and Renames to Hyperautomation Working Group
Since the O&A working group was started in the fall of 2019 a lot has changed. Digital transformation initiatives have been accelerated, largely due to the pandemic. The adoption of cloud computing and all things SaaS has dramatically increased within Enterprise IT. With the rise of Hybrid infrastructure and edge compute new holistic security challenges, and availability have become major pain points, especially when networks scale and IT talent is scarce. Therefore the importance of automation has moved up into the top five most important…
