No one who works in technology operations – network management, software engineering, security, or IT – needs to play Whac-A-Mole when they go to the arcade. Because it’s a game we play in real life every day. We focus on the gopher holes in our domains, and keep smacking down the issues as they pop up. Hopefully, fast enough to solve them. In our jobs, as in Whac-a-Mole, it’s critical that we focus on observing…

There’s an adage that states if you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.  The same can be said for your network and datacenter infrastructure. Agile infrastructures that enable secure connectivity, flexibility, scalability and reliability, while delivering high-performance are imperative for dynamic business critical operations. According to Gartner, by 2025, 85 percent of infrastructure strategies will integrate on-premises, colocation, cloud, and edge delivery options. Hybrid/multi-cloud architectures satisfy customers’ demands for agility….

The continuous influx of open-source software (OSS) into enterprise IT departments is, in many ways, an enormous boon to both vendors and users. For the former, the ability to use open source components means getting rid of a great deal of duplicative effort—rather than having to design every part of, say, an IoT sensor and monitoring product from scratch, a vendor can adopt a well-understood, well-supported open source library for its networking stack, and focus…

ASICS Europe chose a managed Cisco SD-WAN service from Avit Group to deliver on their cloud-first strategy.  The partner, the service, and the technology are all a perfect fit for ASICS and their business. Initially, ASICS focused on Europe, Middle East, African and Russia regions, but have plans to roll out an SD-WAN service globally. In 1949, Kihachiro Onitsuka founded the Onitsuka Company in Japan.  He became a shoemaker.  His goal was to help the…

Leaving college to enter the “real” world always was a scary thought for me. At the end of the day, a new job means presenting yourself to a new group of people. There is always anxiety when meeting new people, however, for those in the LGBTQ+ community – this anxiety extends into many more layers and ultimately needing to find safe spaces where we can truly be ourselves. In 2016, I received a call for…