MCN Reality Check: Cloud Native Vs. Spoke Gateway Sprawl
TL:DR Multi-cloud tunneling with spoke gateways in every VPC is NOT cloud-native – It is value destruction. A multi-cloud networking solution should be both app & network-centric, follow a cloud–native approach and deliver the agility enterprises seek. Disruption is the name of the game. In the hybrid multicloud world that we live in today, cloud […]
The immutable link between CloudOps and user experience
It appears that execution, realization, and control of user experience is something that has eluded all of us who have been responsible for creating, securing, or enhancing the path to an application. Not just for a time, for decades. We all knew it was a problem, yet we accepted that daily break/fix tickets were simply a part of life that we would never escape.
Last Week’s AWS Outage and Avoiding “The 5 Stages of Networking Grief”
Your customers – internal and external – don’t care about a single region of AWS being down while the rest of the internet is operating normally. You may be able to do this on your own, but I recommend that you do everything you can to avoid the 5 Stages of Network Grief.
Go to the cloud, but leave your L3 stack at home.
The challenge that many organizations are now facing is that while application engineering has moved on, network and security have not. This statement should not be seen as an indictment or organizational failure; the cloud did not suddenly appear fully formed. We all have had to change and adapt as public cloud matured.
