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NETOPS MEETS DEVOPS:
THE STATE OF NETWORK
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Digital transformation anchors
the majority of today’s enterprise
IT investments
Among enterprise IT teams, 72% expect they will
have adopted DevOps methodologies for at least
some of their development activities within the next
12 months.
Modern agile development practices, microservices,
containers and cloud infrastructure have combined
to empower application developers to innovate
faster and update applications more frequently than
ever before. Early DevOps initiatives have focused on the
integration of development, testing and computing
infrastructure provisioning to increase developer
productivity and speed applications to market.
This adoption of agile development and
operational strategies requires more scalable
and flexible infrastructure teams and processes,
ensuring that production network, Layer 4–7
application services and applications can scale as
needed. Therefore, development and test resources
are ready whenever requested. As more and more organisations move towards
using DevOps-driven workflows to support
production applications, the impact on network
operations is significant. Specifically, network
operations teams need to rapidly configure, scale,
secure and integrate network infrastructure and
Layer 4–7 application services.
A new discipline, DevOps, has emerged to address
these needs. DevOps represents the integration
of application development and IT operations at
many levels including culture, process workflows and
infrastructure management, as well as application
creation, test, deployment and delivery. They must anticipate and respond to dynamic, ever
changing workload requirements for flexible capacity,
application security, load balancing and multi-cloud
integrations. In short, the network team needs to be
as agile and flexible as the applications team and be
fully empowered to drive network agility. n
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