DDIDHCPDNSNetwork AutomationMass Wi-Fi at Events: How to Manage Peak Loads and Customer ExperienceThis week’s blog comes to us from our very own Paul-Emile Bellaloum, Global Project Delivery Manager. I’ve been playing tennis for many years now and as I am club president in my home town, I am invited every year to the first day of the famous Roland Garros French Tournament (otherwise known as the French Open). They call it “Presidents Day”. It’s a great place to meet with other people who are devoting their time off to their sporting passion....
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudWhy SDDC is Powerless without Automated DDI Provisioning ?Gartner has predicted that 75% of Global 2000 enterprises will require Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) by 2020. This move towards reliance on software-based infrastructure components is expected to bring agility to any service deployment workflow, and potentially also lower cost by using standardized hardware. However, realizing these benefits relies on infrastructure components being deployed and managed properly. This can only be achieved via automated provisioning of IP resources. As IP Address Management (IPAM) is at the core of this...
DDINetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudMake Cloud Orchestration Simple Through DDIThe cloud has driven the greatest change in enterprise IT strategy within the last three years, with the public cloud services market increasing by 69% since 2014, according to Statista. Whether it is a public, private or hybrid cloud deployment, technology leaders see the value cloud provides for their businesses, often considered as a strategic initiative as part of a digital transformation program. Due to the complexity of multi-cloud and managing many providers, cloud orchestration is now an important challenge...
Network AutomationSecurity Advisory Meltdown and SpectreSecurity Advisory – Meltdown and Spectre Recent disclosure of the Meltdown (CVE-2017-5754) and Spectre (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715) vulnerability affecting modern processors triggers many questions regarding the related impact on EfficientIP products. These exploits technically permit any program to read the entire memory of a computer resulting in potential confidential information leak. However, these exploits require the execution of specially crafted payloads on the targeted host. SOLIDserverTM security design does not permit non-administrator users to execute arbitrary code on SOLIDserver appliances....
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationRemoving Network Management Complexity with AutomationIn today’s world, IT is powered by automation. If your network strategy involves cloud or software-defined data centers (SDDC), you also need to consider how your organization can overcome the complexity of managing the underlying infrastructure. A key step would be to use automation in the management of IP addresses, and integrate this process within a modern DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) platform. Managing the corporate network Infrastructure management is becoming more and more automated, which means we’re going to need better ways...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationIPAM: A key component of the IT automation initiativeWalk around any data center anywhere in the world, and while you’ll see a lot of servers, you won’t see many people. That’s because they’re automated, the tasks that used to require teams of operators are now handled by software. Those empty halls are a sign of the huge changes that have swept through IT over the last decade. Servers may still fill our racks, but they’re now just the foundation of a compute and storage fabric that hosts virtual...
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMNetwork AutomationIntegrated DDI: Automating Network Management for Greater ProductivityToday’s network engineers use a plethora of tools to monitor and manage their networks and thousands of IP addresses. However, over the years, many networking teams have acquired too many of them with overlapping features. Managing these tools has become a burden both financially and operationally for organizations, and created more work for IT professionals. This inefficient way of managing a network has become outdated and begs the question, how are even world class, networking teams meant to deliver world...
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMNetwork AutomationSmart DDI: Network Automation For Enhanced Business EfficiencyWith the number of global internet users now reaching 3.4 billion according to Mary Meeker’s 2017 internet trends report, leading to 30.7 billion connected devices by 2020, organizations are faced with new challenges: changing the way they deliver and manage IP addresses and integrating this with their DNS/DHCP management. In short, moving to a smart DDI solution. Many of the IP address management tools currently in use were designed for a time when the only devices you had were a...
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMNetwork AutomationModern DDI: Your Quick Answer to Technical DebtWe live in a world of networks, where users expect instant access to online services, and where our services need to rapidly respond to changes in demand. It’s a world driven by digital transformation, but one that’s held back by the brakes of technical debt. What is technical debt? At heart it’s a simple concept, initially from the world of software development, a way of describing the work that needs to be done before a system can be upgraded or...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudAll or Nothing: Why Partial Automation Does Not WorkAs we build out cloud applications and networks, we need to change the way we deliver and manage IP addresses. Many of the tools we currently use were designed for the good old days, when we had one or two, or maybe tens of servers to support a single application- a server was deployed once and it sat in the datacenter for years. That’s all changed. We’re now deploying hundreds, even thousands, of virtual servers; taking advantage of the speed...
