Serverless: Helping the Enterprise Scale DevOps
Serverless is the paradigm shift that allows engineers to innovate and move faster DevOps has been around for more than 10 years and it’s still misunderstood by many companies. You can’t buy “a DevOps,” but DevOps is critical to your business. In some ways, serverless is similar: a name that markets well but creates confusion […]
Making the Move to Edge Computing? Consider This
Edge computing has exciting potential, but there are certain considerations to thrive in today’s competitive landscape Data is king, especially in the current era of the data-driven business, where a data mindset and analytical capabilities are significant factors in determining future success. With so much data to be mined and monetized, more companies are recognizing […]
Juniper Networks Brings AI to SD-WANs
Juniper Networks today announced it can now apply the same artificial intelligence (AI) engine it uses to automate the management of wireless local area networks (LANs) to software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs). Based on an AI engine that Juniper Networks gained when it acquired Mist Systems, the Juniper Mist WAN Assurance cloud service streams telemetry […]
RackN Transforms Bare-Metal Servers Into a Cloud
RackN is making available an update to the RackN Digital Rebar Platform that will make it easier to employ tools such as Terraform to configure bare-metal servers. Company CEO Rob Hirschfeld said version 4.4 of the platform adds an application programming interface (API) that enables bare-metal servers to be abstracted into resource groups. IT administrators […]
Xen Project Team Updates Open Source Hypervisor Project
The team behind the open source Xen hypervisor announced today provided an update to the project that adds better nested performance, more robust live patching capabilities, improved security and support for Linux subdomains that make it possible to execute code within a specialized domain. In addition, Xen Project Hypervisor 4.14 adds the ability to run […]
Arrcus Expands Network Services Spanning Hybrid Clouds
Arrcus has added virtualized distributed routing (VDR) and multi-cloud networking (MCN) capabilities to ArcOS, a network operating system (NOS) that can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud. Company CEO Devesh Garg said these additional capabilities provide the programmatic network services that IT organizations require to foster deployments of hybrid cloud computing environments. Arrcus MCN […]
DevOps Chat: Software-Defined Storage, With StorPool
The whole Data/DataOps space is becoming very hot. For StorPool, it is more of a case of the rest of the world catching up to what the company has been doing for a while now. It is the leading distributed block storage provider globally. In this DevOps Chat, we speak with Boyan Krosnov, co-founder and […]
Serverless Computing: Taking DevOps to the Next Level
Serverless computing enables you to outsource information, thus freeing teams to focus on front-end work. Organizations choose serverless when they look for faster and easier ways to release updates and patches. DevOps teams often use serverless when they are looking to automate infrastructure tasks. However, each provider offers different capabilities, and each service does require […]
IaC and Kubernetes: A Natural Pairing
Using IaC with Kubernetes helps standardize Kubernetes cluster configuration and manage add-ons Infrastructure as code (IaC) is the ability to provision and manage infrastructure using a configuration language. It offers repeatability, transparency and the application of modern software development practices to the management of infrastructure including networks, load balancers, virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters and monitoring. […]
Barracuda Networks Partners With Microsoft on SD-WAN Service
Barracuda Networks today launched a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) service that runs natively on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Klaus Gheri, vice president of network security for Barracuda Networks, said Microsoft has made it possible to launch an SD-WAN service using Azure Virtual WAN Hubs, a networking service based on a hub-and-spoke architecture that unifies […]
Collibra Employs Microservices for Data Management
Collibra has launched a Collibra Data Intelligence Cloud based on a microservices architecture that promises to alter the way data is managed in enterprise IT environments. Jim Cushman, chief product officer for Collibra, said its approach sets the stage for leveraging microservices to create data workflows made up of reusable components. In fact, there may […]
HPE Acquires Silver Peak to Gain SD-WAN
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its intent to acquire Silver Peak, a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) platform provider, which will be incorporated into its Aruba Networks subsidiary. Keerti Melkote, president of Intelligent Edge for HPE, told industry analysts the $925 million acquisition will eventually lead to edge computing devices all being managed via the […]
Bringing NetOps Up to Speed With DevOps
Automation can be an unwieldy topic for network operations and DevOps teams who have enough challenges working together cohesively. Networks have been traditionally viewed as the long pole in the tent for emerging DevOps practices. But for DevOps practitioners and business leaders alike, there’s good news: NetOps are more prepared than ever to embrace automation […]
Can NetOps and SecOps Finally Get Along?
For years, the very definition of NetOps and SecOps has involved friction and even contentious relationships that make their respective jobs more difficult and lessen their efficiency and effectiveness. Much of this conflict originates from having charters that are seemingly in opposition to each other. At the surface, NetOps stands for connectivity, openness, speed and […]
Fastly Facilitates Observability at the Edge
Fastly this week announced it is adding the ability to collect tracing, customizable logging data and both real-time and historical metrics from a serverless computing framework designed to be deployed on edge computing platforms. Company CTO Tyler McMullen said the goal is to make it easier for IT to bring observability within the context of […]
Report: SD-WAN Shift to the Cloud Accelerates
The rate at which software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) are being consumed as a cloud service appears to be accelerating in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A global survey of 750 IT professionals conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Barracuda Networks finds over half of respondents (52%) are looking […]
Why the Success of Edge Computing Relies on a Linux Legacy
At this point you’ve certainly heard rumblings of the promises of edge computing and may wonder if it’s right for your organization and how to assess its viability. The way we think about edge is as a decentralized extension, or evolution, of cloud computing, enabling many of the same technologies and applications to be leveraged […]
Making SD-WAN More Secure and Flexible
Cloud and managed services enable companies to focus scarce IT resources on business outcomes. According to Gartner, the “market size for cloud is growing exponentially, and cloud is projected to be a $317 billion industry by 2022.” Managed service providers (MSPs) leverage the power of software-defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) to offer higher quality services […]
SonicWall Adds Multi-Gigabit Switches to SD-Branch Portfolio
SonicWall has added a line of multi-gigabit switches to its software-defined (SD)-branch offering that unifies the management of wireless access points and firewalls that include software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) capabilities. Dmitriy Ayrapetov, vice president of platform architecture for SonicWall, said the switches will replace a series of switches that SonicWall had been reselling from […]
Aruba Injects AIOps Into Network Management
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) company, this week launched a platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and remediate networking issues before they have an impact on end users. Patrick LaPorte, senior director of cloud and software solutions marketing, said the Aruba Edge Services Platform (ESP) applies algorithms to data collected for customer […]
A10 Networks Allies with Dell for ADC Infrastructure
A10 Networks announced today it has partnered with Dell Technologies to make its application delivery controller (ADC) and A10 Thunder Multi-tenant Virtual Platform (MVP) available on Dell servers. Gunter Reiss, vice president of worldwide marketing for A10 Networks, said this alliance reduces the cost of deploying ADCs in on-premises IT environments by taking advantage of […]
Should I Stay or Should I Go? A Cloudy Decision
If you’ve been operating in the cloud for some time now, chances are your business has changed since you first made that move and particularly during the current climate. Has your cloud usage grown considerably — and your OpEx costs? Is that just the cost of doing business in the cloud? It doesn’t have to […]
AWS Looks to Accelerate Windows Migrations to the Cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ratcheting up pressure on Microsoft by devoting more resources to enable IT organizations to migrate Windows workloads to the cloud. Fred Wurden, general manager for enterprise engineering at AWS, said a Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) for Windows, now generally available, provides IT teams with prescriptive guidance, consulting support, tools, training […]