HPE announced this week its intent to acquire Juniper Networks for $14 billion. When this deal closes, Juniper will combine with HPE's Aruba Networks division, which is itself a product of multiple acquisitions by HPE, including Aruba Networks (Wi-Fi and switching) and Silver Peak (SD-WAN and WAN optimization).
Enterprises Must Adapt Network Performance Management to Next-Generation Technology
Understanding Network-as-a-Service from Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise
Editor’s note: This blog post was sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, but the sentiments are entirely my own.
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What is Advanced Network Analytics? Cutting Through the Hype
Everyone wants to talk about how analytics is the future of network engineering and operations. The phrase “network analytics” is used by vendors of various stripes to imply that a particular technology is smarter and better than the average solution.
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Analytics
Machine Learning
advanced network analytics
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network operations
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Solve the Cloud Networking Conundrum With SD-WAN
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.
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IT Management
cloud networking
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network management
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Shamus McGillicuddy
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CA Technologies Pushes for Diversity in Tech Industry
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.
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CA Technologies
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network management
Shamus McGillicuddy
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SDN and the Data Center of the Future
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.”
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Data center
IT Management
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SDN
Shamus McGillicuddy
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The Internet of Things will Drive Network Management Evolution
EMA research has determined that network managers will need to upgrade, expand, and adapt their network monitoring and management tools and practices if they are going to support the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Internet of Things
IT Management
IoT
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Shamus McGillicuddy
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Optimizing the Business With Network Analytics
Some network operations teams are discovering that they possess a critical asset that can transform enterprises: network data.
Open network management is the focus on spring ONUG meeting
The Open Networking User Group (ONUG) is a community of IT executives that are using their combined buying power to influence the networking industry. Members hail from companies such as Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase and Fidelity Investments. ONUG’s goal is to specify requirements and reference architectures for products that are open, more affordable and more agile than what vendors traditionally offer.
Over its first two years of existence, ONUG has focused on software-defined WAN (SDWAN), network virtualization overlays and network service virtualization (also known as network functions virtualization or NFV). Last week, ONUG convened its spring meeting at Columbia University, where its focus expanded into network management and operations. ONUG introduced three new working groups that will specify open networking requirements and begin testing vendor solutions in various management areas.
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Gigamon
Ixia
Network Management
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open network management
Shamus McGillicuddy
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