Welcome to 2023! As we transition from 2022 — which in many ways was exciting for undesirable reasons such as the lingering pandemic, conflict in Ukraine, and uncertain economic conditions — I am eager to look ahead to anticipate themes that will affect IT or, more specifically, IT Operations. As vendors, customers, and practitioners, we’ve worked in IT through many eras of disruption.
Rajeev Kumar, Automation Product Leader at Broadcom, explores the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Service Orchestration and Automation Platforms. He reveals how Automation from Broadcom embraces the concepts of SOAP, driving a modern workload automation strategy.
Everyone is shifting their workloads to the cloud, but one challenge remains: Workloads need to be automated. Whether they’re employing a cloud-native, cloud server, or hybrid model—IT operations teams need to know what, when, and now also where to automate. Speaking at the recent 2022 Automation Virtual Summit, Dave Kellermanns, Global Advisor for Automation, Broadcom Software explored some lessons learned and best practices for cloud automation. Read on to see some of the highlights.
For DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) customers, upgrading to the latest release has significant benefits – and that’s especially true with the latest version, release 20.4 cumulative update 6 (DX UIM 20.4 CU6). It offers a significant number of enhancements and new capabilities. DX UIM 20.4 CU6 provides teams with several advantages, including enhanced accessibility, improved operational efficiency, and richer insights.
For teams running secure web gateways (SWGs), also referred to as proxies, in today’s complex, dynamic network environments, extensive observability is a must have. Symantec offers a range of flexible deployment options for its SWGs, offering support for cloud, edge, and hybrid approaches. This blog explores a Broadcom solution that provides comprehensive observability for the Symantec edge offering, Symantec Edge SWG (formerly ProxySG).
As businesses look to advance their critical digital transformation initiatives, Value Stream Management (VSM) has emerged as an increasingly prevalent discipline. How many have employed VSM strategies to date and why? Have VSM initiatives delivered the expected benefits? Download our new report and get answers to these questions and more.
On any given day, network administrators have to contend with significant challenges. They often struggle with key questions: How do I ensure I’m spotting traffic anomalies? How do I use our resources most efficiently? How can I intelligently plan for network capacity upgrades? By employing network flow monitoring, administrators can gain accurate insights into these topics.
Network outages happen more often than you think. We may not experience them directly or even know they're occurring at all. When outages affect household names like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and others, however, we're sure to find out after the fact that there was an issue. Depending on the user's activities and the duration of the issue, stress and frustration levels can vary. When a marketer can’t get that ground-breaking advertisement up on Facebook, they can get antsy.
