The rapid pace of cloud adoption has left many IT teams struggling to keep up. As organizations move business-critical workloads to the cloud, the demands on network and security engineers have skyrocketed. Yet finding and developing the right cloud skills remains a major pain point. In this episode of Altitude, host Woody Woodworth is…
Recently on the Altitude Podcast, Woody was joined by Shawn Seaton, Senior Director Enterprise Architecture at Choice Hotels, who shared the lessons he learned as an early cloud adopter. Delving into the complexities of cloud migration, Shawn and Woody explored both anticipated and surprising outcomes experienced at Choice Hotels, one of the world’s…
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…
Navigating the complexities of secure cloud networking can be a daunting task for IT teams. As cloud adoption continues to expand across the enterprise, IT faces daily increases in security risks, performance requirements, business critical application migrations to cloud, and cost variables. Traditional networking approaches fall short in providing the agility, resiliency, and security required…
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…
During a recent interview on theCUBE’s stage at AWS re:Invent 2022, Aviatrix Rod Stuhlmuller, VP of Solutions Marketing, sat down with Eric Norman, Head of Infrastructure, Architecture, and Innovation at IHG, to talk about IHG’s cloud journey. IHG is a multinational hospitality company with 17 brands, including Six Senses, Regent, Intercontinental, Kimpton, Vignette,…