According to a recent report by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), “Multicloud Networking: Connecting and Securing the Future,” which surveyed 350+ IT stakeholders who work in multicloud enterprises, 88% of enterprises plan to use two or more infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers. The report’s author Shamus McGillicuddy, Vice President of Research of Network Infrastructure and…
As businesses increasingly rely on cloud technologies, they choose platforms that are best for their specific needs irrespective of the cloud provider – often resulting in using two or more public clouds. The desire to stay cloud-native results in two, three, four different cloud provider-specific cloud-native architectures that then need to be stitched together and…
Network engineers are masters of transition. We’ve been part of the technology journey from the beginning, and we’ve never been more important to the business than we are right now. The future networks are hybrid: partly in a data center, partly in the cloud. Businesses plan to run their critical applications where they run best,…
I recently reviewed one of our recent sales engagements with a F500 digital services company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of course, networking and security in cloud emerged as one of their biggest pain points. No surprise there. The more I studied the engagement, the more I realized there was nothing extraordinary…
Are you an IT professional with your head stuck in the clouds? Or just curious about what’s going on up there? As enterprises go all in on the cloud, IT leaders and teams either fall behind or rise above. To rise above, we must overcome the challenges of moving to the cloud and driving…
As a 30+ year veteran in the networking business, I can attest to the fact that the enterprise network backbone has been the foundation of network architecture for decades. And now, as business-critical applications move from the data center to the cloud, enterprises are rethinking backbone network architecture. With cloud as the new center of…
By Gino Mommers and Brad Hedlund In recent years, businesses have been transitioning from traditional on-prem IT infrastructure to cloud, seeking speed and agility that the on-prem operating model cannot provide. The cloud footprint has grown tremendously, and in most cases now even includes mission-critical workloads. This growth has resulted in networking and security becoming more challenging…