By: Hesham Elsherif, Principal System Engineer at A10 Operators consider network complexity to be the greatest threat for the next three years, according to a research survey by 451 Research. At 61 percent of respondents, this ranks higher than competition from cloud providers or concerns about the pressure on service margins and lower operating costs. Greatest Threat for the Next Three Years Network complexity 61% Competition from cloud service providers 49% Inability to adopt agile service delivery models 35% Regulatory constraints on spectrum 29% Inability to lower operating expenses 25% Increased pressure on service margins 25% This concern was echoed … Continue reading Automation that Matters and Eliminates Errors

Spot by NetApp establishes leadership in application-driven infrastructure NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP), the leader in cloud data services, today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Spot, a leader in compute management and cost optimization in the public clouds. Spot by NetApp® delivers application-driven infrastructures (ADIs), cloud infrastructures that use analytics and machine learning to continuously adapt to the needs of applications, to help drive cloud resource optimization in real time, for both compute and storage. ADIs automatically deliver the availability, performance, and capacity that applications need at the lowest cost, accelerating the deployment and innovation of applications. ADIs help … Continue reading NetApp Closes Acquisition of Spot