Empowering Network Professionals to take on Responsibility of Cloud Networking
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…
Networking Is Becoming the Center of the IT Universe Again
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…
Let’s Finally Put the Build Versus Buy Question to Bed
With another ONUG Fall in the rearview, it’s a worthwhile exercise to look back at the topics and innovations discussed and consider what they mean for the biggest questions IT leaders face. This year, network complexity continued accelerating, with multi-domain, multi-vendor, and multi-cloud management taking up a growing slice of mindshare for enterprises large and small. We learned that security challenges won’t take a back seat while we pursue digital transformation goals. We also saw that M&A activity, which is likely to accelerate throughout the…
Why prioritizing user experience is vital in network connectivity
When the pandemic began, many enterprises quickly moved their business operations to the cloud to better manage remote working. As a result, enterprises had to scale up their remote user connectivity infrastructure so all employees could connect to their business applications while working from home. However, the updated infrastructure was often layered on top of legacy network architecture, resulting often in inconsistent connectivity performance, and thereby impacting employees’ user experience. In fact, end-user complaints about application performance due to excessive slowdowns, network congestion, and performance…
Building a Bridge to the Future: Power Hybrid Environments with Network Resilience
The pandemic ushered in a new era, one where technology has created flexibility for organizations, employees, and customers. These technological advancements provide endless possibilities for all parties – increased productivity, improved customer experience, maximized service, and minimized costs. Ensuring that these experiences exceed expectations, enterprises have become increasingly reliant on their network – a resilient network. Travel restrictions and lockdowns spurred by the pandemic were two of the main catalysts of this new, hybrid, digital age. One where products can be bought anywhere, solutions can…
Driven by ONUG and the IT Community, the Future of SD-WAN Depends on Responsible Service Provider Delivery
Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) has come a long way since ONUG ignited the conversation about the market and practical use cases for this promising new technology just four years ago. Eighty-seven percent of 800 network management executives use or plan to use SD-WAN within the next two years, according to a March 2017 IDC survey of mid-size and large companies with at least 10 locations and representing a variety of industries. SD-WAN sales are predicted to grow at a 69 percent compound annual growth rate, reaching $8.05 billion in 2021, notes IDC’s Worldwide SD-WAN Forecast for 2017–2021.
How AI will transform your Wi-Fi?
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