Enterprises have been trying to automate their networks for decades, but manual tasks continue to dominate operations. According to Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research, only 34% of IT organizations have been able to automate more than half of their network provisioning and change management tasks. With so many commercial and open source network automation tools available, why aren’t organizations doing better?
These slides—based on the webinar featuring Shamus McGillicuddy (EMA Vice President of Research) and Jason Edelman (Founder and CTO of network automation solution provider Network to Code) —provide guidance on how to set a network automation strategy. You will also get insights on:
- Whether a network team should use open source, homegrown, or commercial network automation solutions
- How to establish a data-driven source of truth for your network
- How to build the right team for enabling your network automation strategy
The typical network operations teams use four to 15 tools to manage and monitor infrastructure. This fractured approach to operations often leads to inefficiencies and errors. With Cisco Prime exiting the industry, network managers should look for ways to consolidate and optimize their entire toolset.
Check out these slides from EMA Research and OpenText to discover:
- Why you need to take a new approach to network tools
- Insights from your network management peers who are planning a Cisco Prime replacement
- What features and functionality you should look for in your next network management solution
EMA’s market research, “Network Observability: Delivering Actionable Insights to Network Operations,” establishes a roadmap for how vendors should improve their products to deliver deep visibility and actionable insights. More importantly, this research will help IT buyers understand what network management vendors mean when they talk about network observability and how they can turn that understanding into NetOps success.
Too many network managers are fighting losing battles. Since 2016, the number of enterprise NetOps teams that are fully successful has dropped from 49% to 27%, according to Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research.
These slides discuss why NetOps teams are failing and how a monitoring solution with a service-centric view of the network can turn things around.
According to leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), 75% of enterprises have observed increased collaboration between network operations and security operations teams in recent years, but only 39% of organizations believe this collaboration is completely successful. EMA describes this increased convergence of networking and security as NetSecOps.
Check out these slides to learn more about:
- Why and how NetOps and SecOps teams need to work together
- Why these partnerships often fail
- How network automation can enable this collaboration, including the types of tools that can help and the use cases that are most essential
- Real-world examples from the trenches about how these teams have come together successfully
EMA research has found that 90% of network infrastructure and operations professionals believe AIOps-enabled network management can lead to better business outcomes.
Unfortunately, only 30% believe they have been fully successful with using AIOPs for network management so far.
How can you do better?
These slides—based on the webinar hosted by EMA and IBM--outline how AIOPs can help IT organizations transform network operations.
Single Source of Truth for Network AutomationAndy Davidson
The importance of building a single source of truth for information within your organisation, when you embark upon a network automation project. Simply automating router configuration steps is not "network automation".
These slides—based on the research webinar from leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)--shares insights from, “The Future of Data Center Network Automation,” a research report based on a survey of more than 350 technology decision-makers and in-depth interviews with network engineers and architects from multi-billion-dollar companies.
A Study on the Application of Web-Scale IT in Enterprises in IoT EraHassan Keshavarz
The concept of Web-Scale IT has become a pattern of global class computing that delivers the capabilities of large cloude sevice provider in the enterprise IT industry and business sector. Based on the Gartner report, WebScale IT is one of the technology trends probably to have a significant effect on companies over the next three years, by 2017. Web-Scale IT is clearly defined as the all things accouring in large scale could service firms such as Google, Amazon, Netfilx, Facebook and so on, that enables them to get high levels of agility and scalability by using new processes and architecures according to the report. This paper scrutinizes how technology can change the business style for IoT using in the future. It is expected that using of Web-Scale IT is critical in this turning point of changing the business method so as to IoT using in the future. For achieve tha aim, the first step toward the WebScale IT for many organization should be bringing Developing and Operations together. This is the movment known as “DevOps”.
The typical network operations teams use four to 15 tools to manage and monitor infrastructure. This fractured approach to operations often leads to inefficiencies and errors. With Cisco Prime exiting the industry, network managers should look for ways to consolidate and optimize their entire toolset.
Check out these slides from EMA Research and OpenText to discover:
- Why you need to take a new approach to network tools
- Insights from your network management peers who are planning a Cisco Prime replacement
- What features and functionality you should look for in your next network management solution
EMA’s market research, “Network Observability: Delivering Actionable Insights to Network Operations,” establishes a roadmap for how vendors should improve their products to deliver deep visibility and actionable insights. More importantly, this research will help IT buyers understand what network management vendors mean when they talk about network observability and how they can turn that understanding into NetOps success.
Too many network managers are fighting losing battles. Since 2016, the number of enterprise NetOps teams that are fully successful has dropped from 49% to 27%, according to Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research.
These slides discuss why NetOps teams are failing and how a monitoring solution with a service-centric view of the network can turn things around.
According to leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), 75% of enterprises have observed increased collaboration between network operations and security operations teams in recent years, but only 39% of organizations believe this collaboration is completely successful. EMA describes this increased convergence of networking and security as NetSecOps.
Check out these slides to learn more about:
- Why and how NetOps and SecOps teams need to work together
- Why these partnerships often fail
- How network automation can enable this collaboration, including the types of tools that can help and the use cases that are most essential
- Real-world examples from the trenches about how these teams have come together successfully
EMA research has found that 90% of network infrastructure and operations professionals believe AIOps-enabled network management can lead to better business outcomes.
Unfortunately, only 30% believe they have been fully successful with using AIOPs for network management so far.
How can you do better?
These slides—based on the webinar hosted by EMA and IBM--outline how AIOPs can help IT organizations transform network operations.
Single Source of Truth for Network AutomationAndy Davidson
The importance of building a single source of truth for information within your organisation, when you embark upon a network automation project. Simply automating router configuration steps is not "network automation".
These slides—based on the research webinar from leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)--shares insights from, “The Future of Data Center Network Automation,” a research report based on a survey of more than 350 technology decision-makers and in-depth interviews with network engineers and architects from multi-billion-dollar companies.
A Study on the Application of Web-Scale IT in Enterprises in IoT EraHassan Keshavarz
The concept of Web-Scale IT has become a pattern of global class computing that delivers the capabilities of large cloude sevice provider in the enterprise IT industry and business sector. Based on the Gartner report, WebScale IT is one of the technology trends probably to have a significant effect on companies over the next three years, by 2017. Web-Scale IT is clearly defined as the all things accouring in large scale could service firms such as Google, Amazon, Netfilx, Facebook and so on, that enables them to get high levels of agility and scalability by using new processes and architecures according to the report. This paper scrutinizes how technology can change the business style for IoT using in the future. It is expected that using of Web-Scale IT is critical in this turning point of changing the business method so as to IoT using in the future. For achieve tha aim, the first step toward the WebScale IT for many organization should be bringing Developing and Operations together. This is the movment known as “DevOps”.
Leading IT research firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) surveyed 250 IT professionals and conducted a half-dozen phone interviews to identify best practices and successful strategies for network automation solutions. Get highlights from this survey.
Visualizing Your Network Health - Driving Visibility in Increasingly Complex...DellNMS
Dell Performance Monitoring Network Management solutions can provide your IT department with the affordable, in-depth visibility and actionable monitoring needed to manage network infrastructure complexity.
Join our webcast to learn how:
• Dynamic discovery of equipment provides the ability to map current location, configuration and interdependencies.
• Real-time visibility across network infrastructures can help ensure availability and performance.
• Actionable information about network health, faults, bandwidth hogs and performance issues reduces the mean-time-to-resolution.
• Proactive analysis can pinpoint the root cause of intermittent, hard to find problems.
Visualizing and optimizing your network is easier than you think
EMA’s market research report, “AI-Driven Networks: Leveling Up Network Management,” is based on a survey of 250 North American IT decision-makers who have direct experience with the application of AI/ML and AIOps (AI for IT operations) technology to network management. Overall, 92% of them believe that AI-driven networking will lead to better business outcomes, but they told EMA that their organizations need to improve how they evaluate and implement this technology, and they need better solutions from their vendors.
Get more insights when you check out these slides.
How to add security in dataops and devopsUlf Mattsson
The emerging DataOps is not Just DevOps for Data. According to Gartner, DataOps is a collaborative data management practice focused on improving the communication, integration and automation of data flows between data managers and consumers across an organization.
The goal of DataOps is to create predictable delivery and change management of data, data models and related artifacts. DataOps uses technology to automate data delivery with the appropriate levels of security, quality and metadata to improve the use and value of data in a dynamic environment.
This session will discuss how to add Security in DataOps and DevOps.
Visualizing Your Network Health - Know your NetworkDellNMS
An old adage states that you cannot manage what you don’t know. Do you know what devices are on your network, where they are located, how they are configured, what they are connected to, and how they are affected by changes and failures?
Today’s network infrastructure is becoming more and more complex, while demands on the Network Administrator to ensure network availability and performance are higher than ever. Business critical systems depend upon you managing your entire network infrastructure and delivering high-quality service 24/7, 365 days a year. So how do you keep the pace?
Learn how real-time visibility into your entire network infrastructure provides the power to manage your assets with greater control.
Network Automation Journey, A systems engineer NetOps perspectiveWalid Shaari
Network devices play a crucial role; they are not just in the Data Center. It's the Wifi, VOIP, WAN and recently underlays and overlays. Network teams are essential for operations. It's about time we highlight to the configuration management community the importance of Network teams and include them in our discussions. This talk describes the personal experience of systems engineer on how to kickstart a network team into automation. Most importantly, how and where to start, challenges faced, and progress made. The network team in question uses multi-vendor network devices in a large traditional enterprise.
NetDevOps, we do not hear that term as frequent as we should. Every time we hear about automation, or configuration management, it is usually the application, if not, it is the systems that host the applications. How about the network systems and devices that interconnect and protects our services? This talk aims to describe the journey a systems engineer had as part of an automation assignment with the network management team. Building from lessons learned and challenges faced with system automation, how one can kickstart an automation project and gain small wins quickly. Where and how to start the journey? What to avoid? What to prioritise? How to overcome the lack of network skills for the automation engineer and lack of automation and Linux/Unix skills for network engineers. What challenges were faced and how to overcome them? What fights to give up? Where do I see network automation and configuration management as a systems engineer? What are the status quo and future expectations?
DataOps - The Foundation for Your Agile Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Achieving agility in data and analytics is hard. It’s no secret that most data organizations struggle to deliver the on-demand data products that their business customers demand. Recently, there has been much hype around new design patterns that promise to deliver this much sought-after agility.
In this webinar, Chris Bergh, CEO and Head Chef of DataKitchen will cut through the noise and describe several elegant and effective data architecture design patterns that deliver low errors, rapid development, and high levels of collaboration. He’ll cover:
• DataOps, Data Mesh, Functional Design, and Hub & Spoke design patterns;
• Where Data Fabric fits into your architecture;
• How different patterns can work together to maximize agility; and
• How a DataOps platform serves as the foundational superstructure for your agile architecture.
Bridging the Gap: Analyzing Data in and Below the CloudInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Dean Abbott and Tableau Software
Live Webcast July 23, 2013
http://www.insideanalysis.com
Today’s desire for analytics extends well beyond the traditional domain of Business Intelligence. That’s partly because business users are realizing the value of mixing and matching all kinds of data, from all kinds of sources. One emerging market driver is Cloud-based data, and the desire companies have to analyze this data cohesively with their on-premise data sets.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from Analyst Dean Abbott, who will explain how the ability to access data in the cloud can play a critical role for generating business value from analytics. He’ll be briefed by Ellie Fields of Tableau Software who will tout Tableau’s latest release, which includes native connectors to cloud-based applications like Salesforce.com, Amazon Redshift, Google Analytics and BigQuery. She’ll also demonstrate how Tableau can combine cloud data with other data sources, including spreadsheets, databases, cubes and even Big Data.
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has published the most comprehensive market research study on DDI solutions in over a decade, “DDI Directions: DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management Strategies for the Multi-Cloud Era.” Based on a survey of 333 enterprise DDI experts, this research found that less than 40% of enterprises are fully successful in their approach to DDI technology.
These slides created by Shamus McGillicuddy, EMA vice president of research, provide insights into the following:
- Why only 31% of enterprise are confident in the security of their DNS infrastructure
- How DDI enables network automation
- How cloud migration disrupts DDI strategy and what you can do about it
- What to look for in an ideal DDI product
EMA’s market research, Multi-Cloud Networking: Connecting and Security the Future, found that 93% of IT enterprises that use two or more cloud providers want to implement an end-to-end, multi-cloud networking solution. The report, based on a survey of more than 350 IT stakeholders, found that network complexity and budget issues are holding many of them back.
These slides provide highlights from this research.
According to EMA, most companies use 6 or more monitoring tool for a fragmented, piecemeal approach to monitoring. Riverbed SteelCentral is the only end-to-end performance management platform that blends user experience, infrastructure, application, and network monitoring for a holistic view of performance.
Benefits of Operating an On-Premises InfrastructureRebekah Rodriguez
Despite the rapid evolution and growth of public cloud usage, enterprises are finding value in on-premises IT infrastructure. As a result, some organizations are moving their workloads back, partially or entirely, to their own data centers. In fact, according to a survey conducted by IDC, over ½ of the IT spent on servers and storage is still driven by on-prem deployments, and over 70% of those surveyed said they plan to repatriate workloads back from public cloud to an On-Prem Infrastructure.
EMA Presentation: Driving Business Value with Continuous Operational Intellig...ExtraHop Networks
In this presentation, EMA Vice President of Research Jim Frey and ExtraHop SVP Erik Giesa explain how IT organizations can derive real-time IT and business insights from their wire data, as well as the unique capabilities included in the fourth-generation ExtraHop platform that make this continuous operational intelligence possible. For more information, visit www.extrahop.com
These slides—based on the research webinar from leading IT research firm EMA and Pluribus Networks—dive into how software defined packet brokers can close the visibility gap on your network.
Discover the latest insights and trends shaping the landscape of workload automation and orchestration, featuring highlights from the latest "EMA Radar™ Report for Workload Automation and Orchestration."
You will learn more about:
- Workflow Orchestration - Uncover the evolving role of orchestration in simplifying complex workflows in the era of digital transformation.
- Data Pipeline Orchestration – Learn more about WLA support for DataOps, including the integration of Apache Airflow.
- Mainframe Modernization - Gain a deeper understanding of how organizations are embracing modernization while still leveraging their mainframe investments.
- DevOps Support and Collaboration - Explore the pivotal role of workload automation in DevOps practices.
EMA Research Director Valerie O’Connell provides insights into the current, practical, and desired states of incident response and management, including:
- The roles of AI and automation in incident management
- Practical use cases for gen AI
- Business metrics and results
- Near-term investments and anticipated changes
- How organizations are changing to exploit technology advances
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Join our webcast to learn how:
• Dynamic discovery of equipment provides the ability to map current location, configuration and interdependencies.
• Real-time visibility across network infrastructures can help ensure availability and performance.
• Actionable information about network health, faults, bandwidth hogs and performance issues reduces the mean-time-to-resolution.
• Proactive analysis can pinpoint the root cause of intermittent, hard to find problems.
Visualizing and optimizing your network is easier than you think
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Get more insights when you check out these slides.
How to add security in dataops and devopsUlf Mattsson
The emerging DataOps is not Just DevOps for Data. According to Gartner, DataOps is a collaborative data management practice focused on improving the communication, integration and automation of data flows between data managers and consumers across an organization.
The goal of DataOps is to create predictable delivery and change management of data, data models and related artifacts. DataOps uses technology to automate data delivery with the appropriate levels of security, quality and metadata to improve the use and value of data in a dynamic environment.
This session will discuss how to add Security in DataOps and DevOps.
Visualizing Your Network Health - Know your NetworkDellNMS
An old adage states that you cannot manage what you don’t know. Do you know what devices are on your network, where they are located, how they are configured, what they are connected to, and how they are affected by changes and failures?
Today’s network infrastructure is becoming more and more complex, while demands on the Network Administrator to ensure network availability and performance are higher than ever. Business critical systems depend upon you managing your entire network infrastructure and delivering high-quality service 24/7, 365 days a year. So how do you keep the pace?
Learn how real-time visibility into your entire network infrastructure provides the power to manage your assets with greater control.
Network Automation Journey, A systems engineer NetOps perspectiveWalid Shaari
Network devices play a crucial role; they are not just in the Data Center. It's the Wifi, VOIP, WAN and recently underlays and overlays. Network teams are essential for operations. It's about time we highlight to the configuration management community the importance of Network teams and include them in our discussions. This talk describes the personal experience of systems engineer on how to kickstart a network team into automation. Most importantly, how and where to start, challenges faced, and progress made. The network team in question uses multi-vendor network devices in a large traditional enterprise.
NetDevOps, we do not hear that term as frequent as we should. Every time we hear about automation, or configuration management, it is usually the application, if not, it is the systems that host the applications. How about the network systems and devices that interconnect and protects our services? This talk aims to describe the journey a systems engineer had as part of an automation assignment with the network management team. Building from lessons learned and challenges faced with system automation, how one can kickstart an automation project and gain small wins quickly. Where and how to start the journey? What to avoid? What to prioritise? How to overcome the lack of network skills for the automation engineer and lack of automation and Linux/Unix skills for network engineers. What challenges were faced and how to overcome them? What fights to give up? Where do I see network automation and configuration management as a systems engineer? What are the status quo and future expectations?
DataOps - The Foundation for Your Agile Data ArchitectureDATAVERSITY
Achieving agility in data and analytics is hard. It’s no secret that most data organizations struggle to deliver the on-demand data products that their business customers demand. Recently, there has been much hype around new design patterns that promise to deliver this much sought-after agility.
In this webinar, Chris Bergh, CEO and Head Chef of DataKitchen will cut through the noise and describe several elegant and effective data architecture design patterns that deliver low errors, rapid development, and high levels of collaboration. He’ll cover:
• DataOps, Data Mesh, Functional Design, and Hub & Spoke design patterns;
• Where Data Fabric fits into your architecture;
• How different patterns can work together to maximize agility; and
• How a DataOps platform serves as the foundational superstructure for your agile architecture.
Bridging the Gap: Analyzing Data in and Below the CloudInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Dean Abbott and Tableau Software
Live Webcast July 23, 2013
http://www.insideanalysis.com
Today’s desire for analytics extends well beyond the traditional domain of Business Intelligence. That’s partly because business users are realizing the value of mixing and matching all kinds of data, from all kinds of sources. One emerging market driver is Cloud-based data, and the desire companies have to analyze this data cohesively with their on-premise data sets.
Register for this episode of The Briefing Room to learn from Analyst Dean Abbott, who will explain how the ability to access data in the cloud can play a critical role for generating business value from analytics. He’ll be briefed by Ellie Fields of Tableau Software who will tout Tableau’s latest release, which includes native connectors to cloud-based applications like Salesforce.com, Amazon Redshift, Google Analytics and BigQuery. She’ll also demonstrate how Tableau can combine cloud data with other data sources, including spreadsheets, databases, cubes and even Big Data.
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) has published the most comprehensive market research study on DDI solutions in over a decade, “DDI Directions: DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management Strategies for the Multi-Cloud Era.” Based on a survey of 333 enterprise DDI experts, this research found that less than 40% of enterprises are fully successful in their approach to DDI technology.
These slides created by Shamus McGillicuddy, EMA vice president of research, provide insights into the following:
- Why only 31% of enterprise are confident in the security of their DNS infrastructure
- How DDI enables network automation
- How cloud migration disrupts DDI strategy and what you can do about it
- What to look for in an ideal DDI product
EMA’s market research, Multi-Cloud Networking: Connecting and Security the Future, found that 93% of IT enterprises that use two or more cloud providers want to implement an end-to-end, multi-cloud networking solution. The report, based on a survey of more than 350 IT stakeholders, found that network complexity and budget issues are holding many of them back.
These slides provide highlights from this research.
According to EMA, most companies use 6 or more monitoring tool for a fragmented, piecemeal approach to monitoring. Riverbed SteelCentral is the only end-to-end performance management platform that blends user experience, infrastructure, application, and network monitoring for a holistic view of performance.
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Despite the rapid evolution and growth of public cloud usage, enterprises are finding value in on-premises IT infrastructure. As a result, some organizations are moving their workloads back, partially or entirely, to their own data centers. In fact, according to a survey conducted by IDC, over ½ of the IT spent on servers and storage is still driven by on-prem deployments, and over 70% of those surveyed said they plan to repatriate workloads back from public cloud to an On-Prem Infrastructure.
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Discover the latest insights and trends shaping the landscape of workload automation and orchestration, featuring highlights from the latest "EMA Radar™ Report for Workload Automation and Orchestration."
You will learn more about:
- Workflow Orchestration - Uncover the evolving role of orchestration in simplifying complex workflows in the era of digital transformation.
- Data Pipeline Orchestration – Learn more about WLA support for DataOps, including the integration of Apache Airflow.
- Mainframe Modernization - Gain a deeper understanding of how organizations are embracing modernization while still leveraging their mainframe investments.
- DevOps Support and Collaboration - Explore the pivotal role of workload automation in DevOps practices.
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- The roles of AI and automation in incident management
- Practical use cases for gen AI
- Business metrics and results
- Near-term investments and anticipated changes
- How organizations are changing to exploit technology advances
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These slides discuss how to improve user experiences, boost IT efficiency, and drive business growth with modern ITSM.
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Based on the IT Executive Survey 2023 fielded by leading IT analyst research firm EMA and global analytics software firm FICO, these slides explore key trends and opportunities shaping the technology landscape in the global banking, finance, and insurance industries. It will also examine how technology executives are aligning with their business counterparts to drive strategic outcomes.
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In a landscape where data is king, master data management (MDM) plays a pivotal role in ensuring data quality and consistency across organizations. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research shows that 96% of enterprises have one or more MDM tools or are planning to add one in the next 24 months. Achieving a successful MDM implementation, however, proves challenging for many, with 30% of organizations failing on their first attempt to deploy an MDM. Implementation teams struggle with data quality, data mapping and transformation, integration complexity, and many other challenges. What is the secret to a successful MDM implementation?
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The days of traditional passwords are numbered!
To help bring clarity to the rapidly evolving authentication landscape, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) conducted primary research into business and end user requirements, perceptions, and outcomes in the usage of password and passwordless authentication technologies. The results present a clear snapshot of where the identity management market is today and the direction it is heading.
Get the results when you download these slides. Topics to be covered include:
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- The types of authentication technologies users prefer to use as both employees and consumers
- How to reduce time, efforts, and costs associated with managing user identities
- And, much more!
These research slides provide insights into the critical issues involved in handling application- and infrastructure-complexity in ever-changing hybrid multi-cloud settings. Torsten Volk, Managing Research Director at EMA, and Jasper Paul, a Principal Product Manager at ManageEngine Site24x7, explore:
The Anatomy of Complexity: Understand and escape the complexity trap of distributed cloud native applications.
Monitoring and Metrics: Examine approaches for effective monitoring of resource utilization and performance as key components of complexity management.
AIOps: Examine the capabilities of AIOps.
FinOps Strategies: Explore frameworks and best practices for efficiently managing your cloud's financial operations without compromising on performance, resilience, or security.
Case Studies: Gain insights from real-world instances where companies have successfully mitigated the complexities and risks associated with distributed microservices architectures.
No matter what your current level of cybersecurity knowledge is, these slides created by EMA Research and A10 Networks will provide valuable insights into the latest trends and empower you with the best practices in cloud and web application security.
Download to learn more about:
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These research slides from EMA Managing Research Director Torsten Volk provide you with insights into EMA’s Kubernetes research. Based on the perspective of application developers, platform engineers, and security and IT operations professionals, this research delivers insights into the real-world adoption patterns, challenges, trends, and enterprise priorities related to the Kubernetes container platform.
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By the end of 2023, 83% of enterprises expect to connect operational technology (OT) and IoT devices to their enterprise networks, according to Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research. IT and OT are converging so that enterprises can analyze OT data, innovate, and optimize industrial systems. A new approach to OT security is required.
Enterprises need to modernize network architecture to protect these critical assets, especially by updating their network security and modernizing their approach to network segmentation.
These slides explore how enterprises can use OT-dedicated firewalls and zero trust network access to protect OT systems from malicious actors.
Despite claims that the rise of cloud cuts the relevance of CMDB, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) experience and field research consistently find the opposite to be true. In a recent EMA research study, a panel of global IT leaders stated that CMDB use was central to major functions. For many of those respondents, CMDB use was viewed as increasing in importance for automation of complex processes.
Where is the disconnect?
Check out these slides from EMA's Research Director, Valerie O’Connell, to get insights into the research findings, including:
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- Hybrid organizations have the highest rate of CMDB use increase
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For all its benefits, remote work puts tremendous pressure on network infrastructure and operations teams, who must maximize network experience while maintaining security. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) explores this issue in depth with its market research report, “Modernizing Network Engineering and Operations in the Era of Hybrid and Remote Work,” based on a survey of 354 IT professionals.
Get insights when you check out these research slides.
As security leaders evaluate the vast array of tools available to combat ransomware attacks, endpoint and extended detection and response solutions still stand out as the best defense against emerging threats. How can an enterprise know which of these tools is the best though?
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) surveyed IT professionals, information security practitioners, and technology business leaders across all verticals to discover their attitudes and perspectives toward XDR solutions. The primary goal was to use survey responses and third-party interviews to create a comprehensive definition of “What is XDR?” for leaders to use as part of their solution evaluation process.
Check out these research slides featuring Christopher Steffen, CISSP, CISA, and vice president of research at EMA, to discover the definition and get results from this research.
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research reveals that companies are more successful with SD-WAN transformation when they consume the technology as a managed service. How can an IT organization know if it is choosing the right managed service, though?
Check out these slides to discover the five things you need to know about the power of a managed SD-WAN solution. You will also learn more about:
- Why so many enterprises are choosing managed SD-WAN over DIY deployments
- What to look for in an SD-WAN provider
- Tips for optimizing Day 2 operations with managed SD-WAN
- Charting a path to the future, including secure access service edge
With users working remotely and data now housed in multiple cloud applications, securing access to data is essential to a modern digital infrastructure. The rise of hybrid work has challenged the scalability of traditional VPNs, and hybrid multi-cloud architectures have made legacy centralized VPN concentrators impractical.
Zero trust network access (ZTNA) is an emerging class of technology that addresses these new remote access requirements and challenges.
Check out these slides to discover why it’s time to transition from legacy VPNs to ZTNA solutions. You will also learn more about:
- Why legacy VPN technologies cannot address the needs of modern enterprises
- How ZTNA helps secure remote access in the era of hybrid work and multi-cloud architectures
- The best way to transition to a next-generation solution
EMA’s market research report, “From Scheduler to Automation Fabric for the Enterprise: Workload Automation Transformation in 2023” is based on a survey of 406 global IT and business users and decision-makers who have direct experience with workload automation. Overall, 89% of them believe workload automation tools should be expanded to orchestrate automation tools across the enterprise. Get other insights when you check out these slides.
Secure access service edge (SASE) technology is the next step in the evolution of wide-area networks (WANs). SASE combines software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) with cloud-based network security to provide an integrated architecture for securely connecting any site and any user to any digital resource. Unfortunately, many enterprises are discovering that this evolutionary transition from SD-WAN to SASE is not trivial.
Check out these research slides to get insights from the “WAN Transformation with SD-WAN: Establishing a Mature Foundation for SASE Success” research report, based on a survey of 313 IT decision makers across North America and Europe.
These slides based on the on-demand webinar featuring EMA Research Director Steve Brasen identify the most effective and efficient identity management solutions that will specifically address the needs of SMEs.
Learn more about:
- The current and emerging requirements for identity management with SMEs
- The unique challenges SMEs face when deploying and managing an identity management platform
- What elements to look for in an identity management platform architecture that will affect manageability
- A side-by-side product comparison of two of the leading platforms available today: Okta Workforce Identity and the Open Directory Platform provider, JumpCloud
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdf
[Analyst Research Slides] Build vs. Buy: Finding the Best Path to Network Automation
1. | @ema_research
Build vs. Buy:
Finding the Best Path to
Network Automation
Shamus McGillicuddy
VP of Research, Network Infrastructure Management
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)
Jason Edelman
Founder and CTO
Network to Code
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Build vs. Buy: What is NTC Seeing?
Focus On Workflows, Not Tools
• Assign IP Address to interface
• Assign VLAN to Layer 2
switchport
• Bounce a switchport
• Verify RF for WiFi clients
• Verify configuration
• Turn up new BGP peer
• Determine location of an IP/MAC
• Open Change Request
• Obtain data required for change
• Generate change commands
• Generate rollback plan
• Backup configuration
• Issue pre-deployment checks
• Issue pre-change commands
• Generate diff before the change
• Verify existing vs. expected state
• Make change (and hope?)
• Issue post-change commands
• Update Change Ticket
• Execute Compliance Checks
• Update Chat / Send alert / Send Email
• Backup configuration
Perception Reality
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Build vs. Buy: What is NTC Seeing?
Ensure Maximum Extensibility
• Can you tailor deployments?
• One of the reasons Ansible did so well in
networking.
• Managing Enterprise Governance
• Preparing for change
• Vendor / Platform migrations
• 3rd party tool changes
Example: Nautobot Extensibility allows users to inject menu items, create dropdowns, and
content on nearly any page.
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Build vs. Buy: What is NTC Seeing?
Open Source IS Driving Industry Change
% of OSS % of OSS
OSS + NetDevOps is Driving Change
OSS is never 0%
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Source of Truth: What is NTC Seeing?
Let’s Level Set on Terminology
● Source of Truth is about intentions
and planning.
● It is about the expected state.
● Source of Truth data drives parts,
labor, and configurability.
vs.
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Source of Truth: What is NTC Seeing?
Eliminate Spreadsheets and Text Files
Step 1: Migrate from spreadsheets
YAML is usually the first step
Step 2: Determine the right datastore
For each type of data
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Source of Truth: What is NTC Seeing?
Empowering Data-Driven Network Automation
interface Ethernet1
description connects to WAP…
switchport mode access
switch access vlan 5
Network
Design
Designs Generate Data
Data Drives Network Automation
Data Value
Interface Ethernet1
Description connects to WAP…
Mode access
VLAN 5
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• Assign IP Address to interface
• Assign VLAN to Layer 2
switchport
• Bounce a switchport
• Verify RF for WiFi clients
• Verify configuration
• Turn up new BGP peer
• Determine location of an IP/MAC
• Open Change Request
• Obtain data required for change
• Generate change commands
• Generate rollback plan
• Backup configuration
• Issue pre-deployment checks
• Issue pre-change commands
• Generate diff before the change
• Verify existing vs. expected state
• Make change (and hope?)
• Issue post-change commands
• Update Change Ticket
• Execute Compliance Checks
• Update Chat / Send alert / Send Email
• Backup configuration
Perception Reality
Source of Truth: What is NTC Seeing?
Empowering Data-Driven Network Automation
• How did you know which IP address to assign?
• How did you know which ASN?
• Which VLAN ID? Are you enforcing VLAN naming
standards? How about interface descriptions?
• Which commands should be ran pre/post?
• How do you know what’s expected?
• Where is that data stored?
• How do you know how many neighbors should be on
the interface?
• Did you perform any configuration analysis before
deploying?
Source of Truth
Data-Driven Networks
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Assembling a Network Automation Team: What is NTC Seeing?
NetDevOps Transformation
• Separate the NetDevOps Functions from the
Automation (Platform) team
• Embrace a shared responsibility model
• Develop both an automation platform and
workflow (service catalog) strategy
• Support the existing staff with the transition
A training class is not enough
Invest in skills, not only tools…prepare for the future.
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Mapping Roles to Skills
Network Development Engineer
Skills to use and consume
Network Automation Platform
Network Automation Engineer
Skills to develop and operate
automated workflows
Network Automation Architect
Skills to build and maintain a
Network Automation Platform
Linux
- Basic Linux system operations
- Vim, bash, make
Git
- pull/commit/push/rebase
- GitOps fundamentals
- Basic CI operations
Data modeling, templating and
APIs
- YAML
- Jinja2
- REST, GraphQL, JSON
Software and IaaC
- Basic Python/Go
- Basic Ansible/Terraform
Linux
- More advanced linux system
operations
Software and IaaC
- More advanced Python/Go
- Prepare Ansible/Terraform
playbooks and configurations
Network Automation Tooling
- Libraries: NAPALM, Netmiko,
Nornir, PyATS, gnmic, scrapli,
etc.
- Nautobot
CI/CD Pipelines
- Development of pipelines and
workflows
- Github Actions, Jenkins, etc.
Telemetry and Analytics
- Network collectors
- Development on Telemetry
systems (i.e Prometheus,
Grafana)
Software Development Life
Cycle
- Testing
- Release
- Deployment in multiple
environments
Docker Container solutions
- Build containers
- Deployment in runtime
environments: Kubernetes
Data Management & Source of Truth
- Data Modeling, schemas
- Data Governance and Quality
- Data integration and workflows
Systems and Platforms
- Cost analysis
- Infrastructure and data services (Cloud
native architectures, DBs, queues, caches)
Telemetry and Observability
- Collection, Normalization, Enrichment and
Distribution patterns
- Advanced Analytics to create close-loop
solutions
Workflow Orchestration
- Automated workflows architecture
Assembling a Network Automation Team: What is NTC Seeing?
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Mapping Skills to Objectives is Key
* Spreadsheets with commands
* Little to no variables
* Config copy-paste
* No version control
* Backups (Rancid, Oxidize)
* Simple templates (Jinja)
* Hardcoded data
* Basic Python
* Simple Ansible Playbooks
* Partial config generation
* Version control (Git)
* Config copy-paste
* Nautobot Apps
* SSoT Data Sync
* Golden config compliance
* YAML augments SoT data
* Robust Ansible playbooks
* Git integrated with SoT
* Deploying SoT
* Modularizing templates
* YAML files hierarchy
* Ansible AWX/Tower
* APIs (GraphQL, REST)
* Automated config deployment
* Structured data (YAML/JSON)
* More logic in templates (Jinja)
* Advanced Ansible Playbooks
* Partial config generation
* Config copy-paste
* Backups via Ansible/Nornir
* Version control (Git)
XLS TXT YAML YAML
YAML
* Config auto-rendered &
* Config manually applied
* Logic in config generation
* Team collaboration
* Backups version controlled
Skills
Objectives
NTC
Courses
* Repeatable configs
* Implicit standard
* Latest version of backups
* Config auto-rendered
* Config auto-deployed
* Data decoupled from config
* Per vendor/model templates
* Template versioning
* Modern backup solution
* Config auto-rendered
* Capturing intended state
* Dynamic inventory
* Data queried via APIs
* GUI for Ansible - AWX/Tower
* Retire power tools
* Plug-and-play apps
* Data stores synced with SoT
* Actual vs intended config
* Team & outcome-based automation
Beginning
Discovery &
Exploration
Network Automation
Platform
Source of Truth
Abstraction
Tools
* Git Fundamentals
* Automating Networks with Python I
* Introduction to Jinja Templating in
Ansible
* Automating Networks with Ansible I
* Development Environments
* Jinja Templating Deep Dive
* Automating Networks with Ansible II
* Collaborative Workflows with Git &
GitHub
* Introduction to Nornir
* Source of Truth & Nautobot
* Automating Networks w/ Python II
* Extending Ansible
* Network Configuration Testing
with Batfish
* Telemetry Deep Dive
* Building a CI/CD Pipeline
* Creating Nautobot Apps
* Getting Started with Linux and Text
Editors
* Introduction to REST APIs
* Introduction to Data Structures
Assembling a Network Automation Team: What is NTC Seeing?
Example Journey
Config Compliance
Backups Dynamic Reports
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Ready to Transform with Network Automation?
About Network to Code
Want to learn more?
Email info@networktocode.com or reach out at networktocode.com/contact/
Network to Code is the only services company in the world laser-focused on transforming
the way organizations build, manage, and operate networks on a day-to-day basis.
We have one of the highest concentration of NetDevOps and Network Automation
Engineers in the world.
Network to Code is also the sponsor of Nautobot. Nautobot is the
leading open source Network Source of Truth for Enterprises
looking to adopt a data-driven approach to network automation.