“While the CLI remains the dominant mechanism for more than 85% of system engineers to implement network changes, several alternatives are gaining popularity, including APIs, fabrics, and SD-WAN. By 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will use the CLI as their primary interface, down from 85% at YE16.”...
Published: Jul 19, 2017
Today, less than 5% of network operations teams are sufficiently skilled to realize the value possible from network analytics and automation solutions. This will improve over the next three years, but not much—by 2020, only 30% of network operations teams will be able to fully realize the benefits of these tools....
Published: Jul 19, 2017
Look at the reality that is digital disruption and why it's happening, alongside who the digital disruptors are and why they're achieving success.
“Since 2000, 52% of combines in the Fortune 500 have either gone bankrupt, been acquired, ceased to exist or dropped out.” - Ray Wang, Principal...
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As video conferencing finds its place in a wide array of business niches, it’s important to consider how you can get the most value for your company. Not only does video conferencing reduce travel time and meeting delays, it also creates shorter and more productive meetings while letting you get your message across...
Published: Dec 05, 2016
Network virtualization is conceptually very similar to server virtualization. The functional equivalent of a “network hypervisor” reproduces the complete set of Layer 2 to Layer 7 networking services in software.
Server virtualization allows administrators to programmatically create, snapshot,delete...
Published: Oct 21, 2016
Information technology and communications networks are critical in our modern connected world. Businesses and organizations in every industry and of every size rely on their information systems and networks in every aspect of their operations to conduct business, serve their customers, and accomplish their missions.
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Published: Jan 20, 2016
Today’s threat landscape is nothing like that of just 10 years ago. Simple attacks that caused containable damage have given way to modern cybercrime operations that are sophisticated, well-funded, and capable of causing major disruptions to organizations and the national infrastructure. Not only are these advanced...
Published: Sep 12, 2014
Many companies are moving away from hardware-centric networking and adopting a new approach: network virtualization. As adoption grows, new stories are emerging about the enhanced security, agility, and application continuity that are possible with this software-centric model.
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Published: Apr 12, 2017
One can justifiably say that virtualization is a mature technology. It has formed the basis for Cloud computing, and it epitomizes the continuous service delivery and consumption model that beckons in the era of IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS).
Unfortunately for some IT administrators, virtualization might not be a...
Published: Sep 01, 2015
Support for Windows XP ends on 8 April 2014. Those still using XP have three options; do nothing, purchase custom support, or migrate to Windows 7 or 8. Here we consider the three options and their implications.
Published: Aug 13, 2013
The purpose of this book is to introduce you to common network performance management issues and give you a new way of looking at solving them. This perspective allows you to see your network from your users’ point of view, namely, the services and applications they use and their experiences with them.
Published: Apr 01, 2014
The IT network is at the heart of most enterprises, supporting business-critical applications, providing the data on which business decisions are made and facilitating communications with customers, partners, suppliers and co-workers. More than ever before, it is a strategic asset to the business, and any downtime or degradation...
Published: Jan 20, 2016
When organizations talk about improving their technology return on investment (ROI), they typically are referring to their investments in hardware or software, but in fact, the greatest opportunity to increase your technology return may come from improving the productivity of your data center IT staff.
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Published: Jan 16, 2014
In this study, we surveyed 4,774 IT and IT security practitioners in the following nine countries: United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France, India, Japan, China and Brazil.
All respondents are familiar with their organization’s emerging network security technologies and deployment strategy....
Published: Sep 10, 2014