Multi-Cloud Networking: Connecting and Securing the Future

The Internet of Things (IoT) represents an enormous opportunity for technology vendors. But selling IoT outcomes – in particular into industries that have deep industrial or operational technology (OT) roots – is a fundamental departure from the traditional IT sale.Vendors face a more complex solution sale that goes beyond the usual IT buyer and involves multiple stakeholders that sit at the crossroads of IT, OT and strategic business agendas. For the first time ever, 451 Research launched a Voice of the Enterprise (VoTE) IoT: OT Stakeholder Perspective survey in addition to the quarterly VotE IoT: survey of IT decision-makers. Together, these two surveys provide complementary insights and guidance into the IT and OT view of enterprise IoT deployments, budgets, spending, technology priorities, vendor choices and more.

Firewalls are solely responsible for any good or bad traffic. Exponential growth in networks,networking speed & devices, apps, web /cloud/virtualization infrastructure has increased firewall complexity in terms of placement, rules and settings. As many as 80% of firewalls examined in a recent data breach investigation were found poorly configured !

Container and Kubernetes adoption at enterprises have skyrocketed as part of the emergence of cloud-native technologies. Typically, enterprises will have multiple Kubernetes clusters to avoid service outages and to manage security issues and other concerns. As the number of microservices and mesh deployments grows, we need a tool to manage traffic between services efficiently.

Best Practices for Tier 1 Applications in Hyper-Converged Infrastructures Hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI) tightly integrate compute, storage and virtualization resources, making it a cost-efficient and hassle-free primary site for replication, failover clustering, and disaster recovery. Nevertheless, many organizations underestimate the importance of maximized performance and stress-free management in their business continuity and disaster recovery planning process. Fortunately, 5nine and Axellio have teamed up to share best practices for disaster recovery and business continuity in tier 1 HCI environments.