Organizations are distributing applications across private data centers, public clouds, the edge, and hybrid work locations, creating management complexity and blinds spots for networking teams that are trying to ensure critical connectivity. As a result, organizations are exploring new strategies and technologies that drive visibility, efficiency, and automation.
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Organizations are distributing applications across private data centers, multiple public clouds, and edge locations. Plus, hybrid work initiatives are enabling employees to work from home or other locations outside of traditional office settings. As a result, the network has become critical to ensuring secure connectivity. These modern, distributed networks create greater challenges for organizations as they can create blind spots and become operationally complex to effectively manage. In addition, organizations are exploring the use of new technologies that drive visibility, efficiency, and automation.
Bob Laliberte, on Feb 23, 2023
Edge computing is now a top IT priority in organizations as they look to gain real-time business insights from data. Ideally, they're able to achieve that while minimizing the IT infrastructure deployed at edge locations. But our research shows that the number of applications run at a location can have a big impact on the required IT resources. The amount of time data is retained there is another key factor to consider in planning edge deployments.
Bob Laliberte, on Feb 23, 2023
Organizations increasingly are deploying edge applications to gain business insights from data as it’s generated. But our research shows that they face various challenges: security issues, high infrastructure costs, a lack of skills, management complexity, and more. Being aware of the biggest application challenges and ways to address them before starting a deployment is crucial to ensuring that edge initiatives deliver the expected business value.
Bob Laliberte, on Feb 23, 2023
Strong network connectivity is needed in edge computing environments to extract business value from edge applications. 5G technology could be key to that, and the research shows that most organizations are bullish about using it at the edge. Adoption of both public and private 5G is expected to increase as a result, but organizations should watch deployments closely to make sure the technology is appropriate for their edge use cases.
Organizations are distributing applications across multiple public cloud environments and edge locations. This is driven by the need to collect and analyze the data generated at these remote sites to enable organizations to improve quality, deliver enhanced experiences (both customer and employee), and gather deeper insights into the business. Because the “edge” can be defined in many ways depending on several factors, such as company size and industry, organizations employ a range of strategies and an ecosystem of partners that includes cloud service providers, telecommunication companies, colocation providers, and even traditional technology vendors to ensure robust edge computing environments that deliver critical business insights.
Bob Laliberte, on Apr 13, 2022
Secure access service edge (SASE) frameworks are increasingly gaining interest with enterprise customers. The deployment of these services presents an opportunity to switch from perpetual licensing or even subscription licensing to delivering SASE as a managed service. The success of SD-WAN, a major component of a SASE framework, is certainly a driver for consuming SASE as a managed service as well. Organizations need to understand how managed service providers are delivering SASE, especially the ability to manage on-premises and cloud offerings.
Bob Laliberte, on Apr 13, 2022
Secure access service edge (SASE) offers opportunities for both networking and security, but in most organizations the security and networking teams still operate independently. This independence means enterprise strategies for pursuing SASE may often be focused either on networking or security. It should be noted, however, that some organizations are starting with a converged approach. Depending on who is leading the SASE initiative, priorities may differ. This brief will focus on the nearly one-third of organizations taking a network-focused approach to SASE implementation.
Bob Laliberte, on Apr 13, 2022
Automation of network management, often through artificial intelligence and machine learning, holds great potential for helping businesses keep pace with rapidly expanding and complex distributed networks. But most organizations are reluctant to hand over all responsibility to intelligent systems. Change management to overcome AI skepticism, as well as gaining more experience using AI/ML, will build confidence and help drive adoption.
Bob Laliberte, on Mar 30, 2022
When it comes to their 2022 spending on networking products and services, enterprises express strong interest in using advanced technologies such as AI and cloud-based management tools to modernize their networks.
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