By Saad Mirza and Shahzad Ali Have you been tasked with improving legacy network designs? Does your company use a cloud service provider (CSP) underlay network to build its cloud network backbone? If this sounds familiar, our new Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) Program course – Cloud Backbone and Hybrid Connectivity – may be…
The cost of cloud services is influenced by a complex web of factors, often resulting in unexpected bills. In a recent conversation I had with one CIO, he mentioned that they had allocated $5 million for their annual cloud budget but ended up paying $15 million. A 3x escalation in budget is not easy to…
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…