Most of us, sharing the trait of being human beings, have experienced what’s commonly referred to as “fight or flight”—an often intense autonomic physical reaction manifesting with a racing heart, tense muscles, and sweaty palms. A sense of panic can accompany the reaction, as well as a decision paralysis that renders our ability to think logically virtually non-existent.
Operating a digital business requires analysis of data for insights. Data bias - the opinionated collection of data - impacts the ability to glean insights for performance, availability, and security, resulting in missed or "false" insights. To achieve a fully digital business, IT and business must develop a data and observability strategy.
The convergence of technology, knowledge, and process has come together to dramatically accelerate the speed of digital value creation. As we strive to maximize the value of modern application delivery platforms, we must enable app developers and operators with streamlined abilities to enhance and update application services while also ensuring security.
Alix Leconte, VP for Service Providers (EMEA), outlines five important trends for telcos to watch in 2022.
Nearly half of federal government IT executives reported that their agencies are shifting toward identity-centered, or Zero Trust, security strategies to protect their digital resources. The accelerated use of this model coincides with the growing realization that traditional methods to secure a network’s perimeter are no longer sufficient.
Digital business functions are just as critical to supporting customer experience and legal is starting to get the much-needed attention it deserves. Organizations far along their digital transformation journey are taking a step back to phase one, addressing functions that have remained manual through recent rapid digitization.
In a digital as default world, operations is still too reliant on manual methods and needs to evolve to enable adaptive applications. This evolution requires significant change across all of IT. It needs AI-enabled adaptability that will maintain availability, optimize performance, and ensure security.
It’s been a tough few weeks for many in the IT world. On December 9, a critical zero-day vulnerability was discovered and announced in the ubiquitous logging library from the Apache Software Foundation used for Java applications known as Log4j.
Rather than a one-time lift-and-shift, deploying to the cloud has become another option in the app deployment lifecycle, and applications are evolving to make better use of resources by being “cloud-native.” As organizations are increasingly adopting multiple clouds and mutli-cloud, it’s important to ask what other aspects also need to change in the apps and operations realm.
What do you do when SD-WAN over the Internet isn’t enough? Move that automation to a physical network and connect it everywhere.