Tag: NetOps

Time to Extend DevOps Visibility to the Network Edge
Any comprehensive approach to observability needs to include an analysis of the internet services upon which organizations depend ...

Cloudflare Unveils Platform to Programmatically Unify Cloud Networking
Cloudflare's Magic Cloud Networking platform makes it simpler to programmatically manage multiple cloud networking environments using Terraform code ...

What NetOps Teams Should Know Before Starting Automation Journeys
Automation has captured the human imagination since the earliest days of recorded history. A fanciful example of this comes from Homer’s classic “The Iliad” in the form of a bronze robot called ...

The Importance of NetSecOps in Network Management
The IT landscape has changed beyond recognition in the past decade or so. The vast majority of businesses now operate largely in the cloud, which has had a notable impact on their ...

Languages and DevOps: Network
It is fun to discuss the changes in network operations over the last couple decades. We've come full circle, and, honestly, ended up in a better place. Network specialists were super command-line ...

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 ...

Cisco Acquires ThousandEyes to Advance Network Visibility
Cisco Systems this week announced its intent to acquire ThousandEyes, provider of an internet monitoring platform that Cisco plans to leverage to embed ThousandEyes agent software into a range of devices including ...

Cisco Aligns With Google to Meld DevOps and NetOps
The extension of a partnership between Cisco Systems and Google to drive tighter integration between their respective software-defined wide area network (SD-WANs) offerings and cloud platforms promises to accelerate the convergence of ...

F5 Networks Surfaces Application Insights
F5 Networks, at its Agility 2020 online event today, unfurled Beacon, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables IT teams to better monitor and troubleshoot applications using telemetry data collected from networking equipment ...

Bridging the Network Automation Skills Gap
With the introduction of network programmability and APIs for everything from management systems to devices themselves, the modern network landscape has evolved to being managed like software. This shift from hardware-focused networks ...

F5 Networks Launches Next-Gen ADC Based on NGINX
F5 Networks this week launched version 3.0 of its NGINX application delivery controller (ADC) that adds application programming interface (API) management tools, analytics and monitoring tools, a service mesh, a certificate manager, ...

IoT, AIOps and OMG!
The task of keeping networking straight while expanding the definition of network to include both physical and virtual networking has fallen heavily upon the op-centric side of DevOps–or what I like to ...