I will soon publish new market research about enterprise network automation strategies. The report is based on a survey of 350+ IT professionals and one-on-one phone interviews with a dozen experts from a variety of well-known enterprises, universities, and government entities.
EMA Asked Network Pros: What Do Network Automation Vendors Need to Know About Your Challenges?
By Shamus McGillicuddy on Feb 15, 2024 9:34:49 AM
How to Mitigate Multi-Cloud Networking Complexity
By Shamus McGillicuddy on Feb 22, 2023 1:08:03 PM
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With most companies now operating in multiple cloud providers, network and security complexity are increasing. For instance, 96% of multi-cloud enterprises are using more than one networking vendor across their cloud estates, according to new research from Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).
Graphiant: A Vendor to Watch
By Shamus McGillicuddy on Sep 8, 2022 12:16:28 PM
The WAN edge is becoming more distributed and dynamic, which is overburdening IT organizations that are already at a breaking point. Software-defined WAN technology has solved some of the issue, but they haven’t gone far enough. The cloud, the Internet of Things (IoT), and the work-from-home (WFH) revolution demand something more.
How to Identify the Ideal Network Automation Solution
By Shamus McGillicuddy on Apr 27, 2022 9:00:18 AM
Data center network automation delivers four primary benefits to a business, according to Enterprise Management Associates research: operational efficiency, reduced security risk, improved compliance, and network agility.
NetOps and SecOps Partnerships Flourish With Modern DDI Technology
By Shamus McGillicuddy on Nov 17, 2021 8:50:01 AM
More than 75% of enterprises are reporting increased collaboration between their NetOps teams and SecOps teams , according to EMA's new research on NetSecOps partnerships. Digital transformation is a significant driver of this collaboration. About four out of five enterprises reported that NetSecOps collaboration is in response to public cloud adoption, work-from-anywhere initiatives, data center modernization, the internet of things, and edge computing.
The Transformational Promise of Per-Application ADCs
By Shamus McGillicuddy on May 23, 2019 11:09:45 AM
Today’s cloud-centric enterprises require agile infrastructure that can scale up and down as capacity requirements evolve. Nowhere is this shift in infrastructure requirements more apparent than in the world of application delivery controllers (ADCs) and load balancers. Today’s enterprises are shifting away from monolithic ADC appliances in favor of lightweight, per-application software ADCs and load balancers.
Public Clouds Are Disrupting Enterprise Network Management
By Shamus McGillicuddy on Sep 14, 2018 3:31:41 PM
Network managers who are supporting the migration of critical applications to the public cloud will need a new set of tools for engineering and operations.
Solve the Cloud Networking Conundrum With SD-WAN
By Shamus McGillicuddy on Jan 9, 2018 2:41:04 PM
Enterprise networking professionals have a cloud problem, even if they don’t know it. Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solutions can help them solve this problem.
CA Technologies Pushes for Diversity in Tech Industry
By Shamus McGillicuddy on Nov 16, 2017 2:41:03 PM
Despite what you hear from trolls, bigots, and misogynists, diversity in the technology industry is a good thing. But the philosophy of diversity needs more champions. Tech companies and IT organizations need to expand their workforce beyond the herds of white men that have dominated the industry for decades.
SDN and the Data Center of the Future
By Shamus McGillicuddy on Oct 16, 2017 12:42:17 PM
Despite some recent obituaries published by my peers, software-defined networking is not dead. But perhaps certain aspects of it are dead or dying. If that’s the case, I say: “SDN is dead. Long live SDN.”