It’s Time for No-Code Network Automation
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 Growing and Evolving Role of Today’s Networking Professional
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,…
Managing Risk and Automation with Policy as Code | ONUG Fall Session Recap
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…
The IT-Spend Party Is Over; Now It’s the Optimization Hangover
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…
Run Your SD-WAN Deployment with Network AI
SD-WAN is seemingly taking the enterprise world by storm. The market is big and still growing, with room for at least five major vendors doing a healthy business. And it’s easy to see why. SD-WAN eases a lot of headaches in running a large enterprise WAN. The reliability, redundancy, and security benefits are real. I was tempted to say that SD-WAN “solves” a lot of WAN headaches, and SD-WAN vendors would have you believe this is really true – that it’s a set-and-forget kind of…
Getting Started with Network Automation – A Guide for Your Journey
Beginning your Network Automation journey can seem like an overwhelming task. We often hear questions from our clients, such as, “Where do I even begin?” or “How can I ensure that I am building a platform the right way from the start?” All great questions. However, journey is the key word when it comes to automating your network. This blog post will detail some of the key findings I’ve discovered leading business development efforts at Network to Code and how our customers are successfully implementing…
Evolving Data Center Networks from Cloud-Ready to Cloud-Native
A 2020 survey found that at least half of data center workloads will remain in enterprise data centers until at least 2022. Businesses are hesitant to move more mission-critical operations to the cloud until there is more openness, transparency, and accountability. The following participants in the Evolving Data Center Networks session of ONUG Fall 2020 would agree: Christopher Liljenstolpe, Chief Architect, Cloud at Cisco Parantap Lahiri, VP, Network and Datacenter Engineering at ebay Charles Greenaway, Customer CTO at BT Global Carlos Matos, Executive Director, Cybersecurity…
