Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its intent to acquire Silver Peak, a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) platform provider, which will be incorporated into its Aruba Networks subsidiary. Keerti Melkote, president of Intelligent Edge for HPE, told industry analysts the $925 million acquisition will eventually lead to edge computing devices all being managed via the […]
Bringing NetOps Up to Speed With DevOps
Automation can be an unwieldy topic for network operations and DevOps teams who have enough challenges working together cohesively. Networks have been traditionally viewed as the long pole in the tent for emerging DevOps practices. But for DevOps practitioners and business leaders alike, there’s good news: NetOps are more prepared than ever to embrace automation […]
Can NetOps and SecOps Finally Get Along?
For years, the very definition of NetOps and SecOps has involved friction and even contentious relationships that make their respective jobs more difficult and lessen their efficiency and effectiveness. Much of this conflict originates from having charters that are seemingly in opposition to each other. At the surface, NetOps stands for connectivity, openness, speed and […]
How to Minimize Latency and Its Impact on UX
Latency can have an enormous impact on user experience. Here’s what you need to know to mitigate latency before it impacts your customer experience Businesses have been digitizing for decades, but recent events have accelerated the process beyond all expectations. Customers are now using more digital services than ever, and their switching costs are often […]
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 […]
F5 Networks Surfaces Application Insights
F5 Networks, at its Agility 2020 online event today, unfurled Beacon, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that enables IT teams to better monitor and troubleshoot applications using telemetry data collected from networking equipment from both F5 and third-party sources. In addition, the company announced an update to NGINX Controller that enhances application analytics along with improvements […]
LF Edge Moves Open Networking Push Forward
A vendor-neutral initiative dubbed the State of the Edge was acquired this week by LF Edge, an arm of The Linux Foundation focused on defining an open source stack of software for edge computing applications. The State of the Edge project will be merged with the existing Open Glossary of Edge Computing initiative that LF […]
Cato Networks Offers Instant SD-WAN Service
Cato Networks has added an instant-on capability to its software-defined wide area network service (SD-WAN) service to make it easier for IT teams to provide employees with remote access to applications. Dave Greenfield, technology evangelist for Cato Networks, said rather than having to configure and install a virtual private network (VPN) client on every device […]
Best of 2019: Critical Skills Developers Need to Avoid Getting Left Behind
As we close out 2019, we at staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the second in our weeklong series of the Best of 2019. Burnout is a recurring theme at DevOpsDays events around the world. The modern developer faces constantly and rapidly-evolving challenges: the agile movement reducing […]
Moving Things Around: The Acquisition of Protego
I received a note from Protego Labs’ vice president of marketing about Check Point Software acquiring Protego. We see a fair number of acquisition announcements, and usually don’t write about them–though we read them and stay abreast of industry happenings. I used to follow Check Point, and haven’t looked into what they’re doing in a […]