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Driven by ONUG and the IT Community, the Future of SD-WAN Depends on Responsible Service Provider Delivery
Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) has come a long way since ONUG ignited the conversation about the market and practical use cases for this promising new technology just four years ago. Eighty-seven percent of 800 network management executives use or plan to use SD-WAN within the next two years, according to a March 2017 IDC survey of mid-size and large companies with at least 10 locations and representing a variety of industries. SD-WAN sales are predicted to grow at a 69 percent compound annual growth rate, reaching $8.05 billion in 2021, notes IDC’s Worldwide SD-WAN Forecast for 2017–2021.
Driven by ONUG and the IT Community, the Future of SD-WAN Depends on Responsible Service Provider Delivery
by Kevin O’Toole Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) has come a long way since ONUG ignited the conversation about the market and practical use cases for this promising new technology just four years ago. Eighty-seven percent of 800 network management executives use or plan to use SD-WAN within the next two years, according to a March 2017 IDC survey of mid-size and large companies with at least 10 locations and representing a variety of industries. SD-WAN sales are predicted to grow at a 69 percent…
SD-WAN Turns the Traditional Network and Its Legacy “Rules” on Its Head
This scenario should sound familiar to you: You’ve been running IT organizations for what seems like forever and while you work tirelessly to make sure the network is working right, that everyone can access the network at all times, and that network traffic goes where it needs to when it needs to be there, the fact that you can’t control every nuance can be frustrating and impeding to your service level objectives. There’s a certain lack of control when it comes to managing WAN links…
Enabling Hybrid WAN for Cloud and IoT Applications
by Atchison Frazer Back in 2015, we offered some popular advice on “how to create a virtual WAN” (VWAN), a concept that was widely covered in the media at the time as a game-changing alternative to MPLS. However, the name quickly became outdated, as discussions about the future of networking shifted to software-defined WANs (SD-WANs) and hybrid WANs that actually complement MPLS. Today, the VWAN descriptor is rarely used, except as an occasional synonym for SD-WAN.
Simplification Will Accelerate Software-Defined Data Center Adoption
by Steven Shalita Organizations are looking for ways to scale-out their data center network to meet the increasing demands of the business. The digital enterprise, fueled by new applications, hyper-growth of the Cloud, and adoption of hybrid IT are all driving dramatic change. In order for organizations to fully realize the potential of technology, they are looking to modernize their network and leverage the Cloud for increased agility, speed and consistency. This means new approaches and capabilities are required. Ideally, all aspects of a data…
The Rise of the User Voice
by Nick Lippis The public voice of IT business leaders has been muted over the past two decades. Part of this was due to corporate PR, legal, and mitigation teams forbidding IT executives from speaking in public. Part of the cause was the lack of forums available for IT leaders to collaborate and exchange successes and challenges. Part of the cause was old fashion thinking about what was strategic. But ONUG changed all that and its implications will be wide spread! Consider this a start….
How the Service Providers Missed The SD-WAN Market
by Nick Lippis One of the great ONUG success stories is the creation of the SD-WAN market. Its inception took place on an April day in 2013 when the ONUG Board convened for its twice-yearly, face-to-face meeting at UBS headquarters. During this meeting, ONUG Board members shared use cases for which they required solutions that suppliers were not yet providing or addressing.
ONUG Fall 2015: The Emergence of Open Software-Defined Infrastructure Ecosystem
ONUG Fall 2015 may be finished, but the implications and themes from the show will be with us for years to come. Center stage was the evolution of network infrastructure to software and the emerging open IT Frameworks. Software defined networking (SDN) is part of a broader IT transition toward open Software-Defined Infrastructure in the context of open IT Frameworks for enterprise systems. Keynotes and sessions explored how IT consumption models are changing IT service delivery and supply chain systemically throughout the IT industry.
ONUG Spring 2015 Sees Imminent User-Led Transformation of IT Organizational Design
The focus of ONUG Spring 2015 was operationalizing open infrastructure, something co-chairman and co-founder, Nick Lippis, addressed in his kick-off keynote. The keynote stressed ONUG’s goal of sustaining the user community’s effort to transform the current siloed IT organizational model into a cloud infrastructure design to more readily adapt to user needs while creating business value.
Hackathon to build useful enterprise-focused SDN applications
by Srini Seetharaman The ONUG Fall 2013 conference highlighted a clear need for SDN in several domains of use. Most of today’s SDN vendors are targeting the need for network virtualization in cloud data centers. This status quo, however, leaves lingering needs in several other domains, including branch office networking, service chaining of L4-L7 appliances, and enterprise WAN. What the industry needs are reference implementations of SDN applications that address these open problems and improve the current mode of operation.