Digital transformation requires new technologies. But does that mean legacy systems should be replaced? Survey after survey has shown that IT and business leaders have had to drastically rethink priorities, strategies and spending in the wake of the global pandemic. A survey our company conducted last October showed that technology spending hasn’t taken a terrible […]
Cisco CEO: Developers Need More Infrastructure Control
Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins said this week that the company’s No. 1 priority going forward is to enable IT organizations to better manage application experience via abstraction layers that make to possible for developers to programmatically manage infrastructure. Speaking at its annual Cisco Partner Summit, which occurred online, Robbins said Cisco is working toward […]
Cisco Expands Effort to Meld DevOps, NetOps
Cisco Systems has accelerated its efforts to converge network operations (NetOps) by adding support for Terraform tools for managing infrastructure-as-code as well as expanding its support for the Ansible IT automation framework. In addition, Cisco has improved and standardized the application programming interfaces (APIs) it makes available for its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) framework for […]
Preparing for Digital Life After COVID-19
The shift to a digitally dependent remote workforce across numerous industries was instantaneous for organizations after the COVID-19 pandemic spread, and after months of adapting, this way of life has become “a new normal.” IT professionals are facing unprecedented pressure to meet the increased demands they are experiencing now and preparing for the changes that […]
Surveys Show COVID-19 Changes to Enterprises Likely Long-Term
The global response by organizations to the novel coronavirus pandemic has been transformational. A recent survey of more than 500 senior decision-makers in the UK revealed just how much the virus forced enterprises to innovate. The independent survey, funded by London-based tech developer Studio Graphene, questioned about more than 500 decision-makers within UK enterprises. Since […]
HashiCorp Adds Business Tier to Managed Terraform Service
HashiCorp today announced it has added a Business tier to the HashiCorp Terraform Cloud that expands the managed service in a way that provides advanced security, compliance and governance capabilities along with the ability to execute multiple runs concurrently and take advantage of more flexible service level agreement (SLA) options. Meghan Liese, director of product […]
Nutanix Brings HCI Platform to AWS
Nutanix today announced that Nutanix Clusters are now available on bare-metal instances of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Manoj Agarwal, senior vice president of engineering for Nutanix, said Nutanix Clusters on AWS will provide IT organizations with access to hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) capabilities based on Nutanix virtual […]
Report: SD-WAN Shift to the Cloud Accelerates
The rate at which software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) are being consumed as a cloud service appears to be accelerating in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A global survey of 750 IT professionals conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Barracuda Networks finds over half of respondents (52%) are looking […]
Aruba Injects AIOps Into Network Management
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) company, this week launched a platform that leverages artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and remediate networking issues before they have an impact on end users. Patrick LaPorte, senior director of cloud and software solutions marketing, said the Aruba Edge Services Platform (ESP) applies algorithms to data collected for customer […]
A10 Networks Allies with Dell for ADC Infrastructure
A10 Networks announced today it has partnered with Dell Technologies to make its application delivery controller (ADC) and A10 Thunder Multi-tenant Virtual Platform (MVP) available on Dell servers. Gunter Reiss, vice president of worldwide marketing for A10 Networks, said this alliance reduces the cost of deploying ADCs in on-premises IT environments by taking advantage of […]