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Vendor Myths in DC Design
Network vendors spread many myths when you’re considering a data center network refresh. Juniper CTO Bikash Koley tells why you want to make your data center multi-cloud ready. For more info: https://www.juniperemea.net/multicloud/
Peter Burris
Which data center networking myth do you see as most prevalent?

Which data center networking myth do you see as most prevalent?

Peter Burris
https://www.crowdcha... What myths do others misunderstand about running enterprise networks?

Cathy Gadecki
They think it's simpler than it is
Andy Lamontagne
They believe everyone is already using SDN and Public Cloud
LaurenMalhoit
part of the misunderstanding is that it needs to be a total forklifting of current equipment. Which should be totally untrue.
Cathy Gadecki
Brand new will fix when there's a lot of existing to interoperate with.
LaurenMalhoit
There's also a belief that applications don't need to change or don't need to be a part of the change. Really all of the DC silos need to go through a transformation and hopefully a collaboration!
David Floyer
The greatest myth is that the only purpose of a network is to move data. The purpose is to manage the connection of data to people and things.
Andy Lamontagne
They believe a single vendor can solve all of their problems. In fact, Multicloud is Multivendor
LaurenMalhoit
@dfloyer Great point, David. We so often forget what's behind the purpose of the data center. Good to keep the human element in mind.
Brett Ley
That the network is always getting in the way, slowing down new services deployments - it doesn't have to right?
jameskobielus
The top myth of enterprise networks is that they exist to manage connections among servers, databases, and applications. In fact, they exist to ensure service levels to sustain knowledge worker productivity 24x7.
David Floyer
The second myth is that the cost of moving data is trivial. Moving data is expensive. Moving large amounts of data takes a long time. In general, it is easier and cheaper to move the compute to the data.
LaurenMalhoit
@jameskobielus We actually consider that to be really important. Thinking about things like customer satisfaction and application responsiveness is really important.
LaurenMalhoit
@dfloyer Especially when it comes to public cloud! We need to be very careful when designing for our multicloud futures.
Peter Burris
As enterprises take greater advantage of IT automation, what benefits should we be focusing on? https://www.crowdcha...

Brett Ley
Reducing risk & faster deployment of services
LaurenMalhoit
RELIABILITY - The answer to the automation question is always reliability. Speed of ops doesn't matter, if you're only speeding up problems.
Cathy Gadecki
The objectives of IT should not change. Automation is a how. Not a why. It lets us deliver more reliable and secure services so that work can be done.
jameskobielus
We should be focusing on automation's benefits in ensuring closed-loop real-time predictive remediation of system, network, and applciation issues before they become showstoppers.
Colin Wrightson
Automation should be used to reduce the operational burden. To allow the ops team to automate the day to day tasks
Peter Burris
Which data center networking myth do you see as most prevalent? https://www.crowdcha...

Brett Ley
That it has to be single vendor
LaurenMalhoit
That some people don't need to automate. Not everything needs to be automated, but the more we move away from "snowflake" networks, the better off we'll be moving towards consistent and reliable workloads and workflows.
jameskobielus
The most prevalent data center networking myth is that it's a lights-out automated scenario in most organizations. In fact, it involves expert human personnel in most functions most of the time.
Cathy Gadecki
Outside of IT others sometimes see that there is a clean handoff to cloud. In reality, even if a majority runs in clouds, you still need good tools to secure, control and observe the systems.
David Floyer
The most prevalent myth I see as prevalent in networking is that Edge data must be moved to a datacenter. Physics & cost, especially for extracting real-time benefits form IoT data, dictate that the Edge has to include significant compute, & be treated as equal citizen.
Peter Burris
What’s the relationship between digital business and enterprise networking? https://www.crowdcha...

Brett Ley
digital business is not a project, its a day to day reality that needs to be designed into enterprise networking critical capabilities
Cathy Gadecki
Digital means speed. So speed of change becomes a core attribute and that requires agility which means we need to simplify networks.
David Floyer
One of the keys to digital business is increasing the amount of data available to applications. This means enabling distributed compute environments to work in a coordinated fashion with low latency. A real challenge for network management!
LaurenMalhoit
I mean, honestly, it's all about revenues for the business. Likely the more businesses can embrace the digitial transformation, the better the customer satisfaction, maybe more profits, etc. Ent. Networking should help lead us there, not be an obstacle.
jameskobielus
Digital business involves the transformation of all processes to online, real-time, data-driven, and virtual models. Enterprise networking is the digital backbone without which digital business would be impossible.
Peter Burris
How has multicloud adoption altered IT in your business? https://www.crowdcha...

LaurenMalhoit
If we, as IT, truly embrace multicloud, we will have more reliable workloads and applications. As well as less shadow IT.
Brett Ley
I thnik people have adotoped multiple clouds, each having specific tooling and capabilities which adds complexity - the goal is driving multicloud
LaurenMalhoit
@BrettLey2 Totally agree, Brett! Multiple clouds != multicloud
Dominique Hughes
For resources and content to help you navigate to a multicloud infrastructure please visit our multicloud page http://bit.ly/2zHYQC...
Dominique Hughes
In this short video we walk through everything you need to consider on the road the multicloud http://bit.ly/get-re...
Cathy Gadecki
There's a lot more people involved in determining the goals and needs while at the same time things are moving faster. So the engines of IT have to provide the needed functionality and guardrails for the new order of business.
Andy Lamontagne
Good morning Crowdchaters, if you’re a network or cloud architect, be sure to check out @JuniperNetworks Multicloud Technical Guide - https://www.juniper....
Amr Musharrafa
good stuff dude, thanks alot !! @alamontagne
LaurenMalhoit
Thanks all for participating. Great video by @bikashkoley73 and great conversation had by all. Looking forward to chatting with everyone going forward. Reach out anytime on Twitter!
Brett Ley
For resources and content to help you navigate to a multicloud infrastructure please visit our multicloud page http://bit.ly/2zHYQC...
Peter Burris
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Cathy Gadecki
If joining a bit late, please hit play . to watch the video.
David Floyer
Good morning from early in San Francisco
Amr Musharrafa
it was a really informitive interview
Nikos Tsanos
Could elaborate more in the extension of legacy networks to cloud. What are the minimum requirements of how old a legacy network can be?
LaurenMalhoit
As always, the answer depends. The equipment would need to be capable of some sort of IP Fabric features, I imagine. Perhaps EVPN VXLAN as that's the way the industry is going. Legacy also means applications, keep in mind. We need to bring forward legacy in all pillars.
Colin Wrightson
It depends on how you define legacy. Legacy could be as simple as connectivity BMS servers to your network and extending there connectivity via a gateway to a cloud service
LaurenMalhoit
Does that answer your question?
Nikos Tsanos
We have clients with their core applications still running to legacy systems of more than 20 years old if more. Therefore for those clients we have first to move them from their local network to a virtual network and then upgrade to cloud.
LaurenMalhoit
Yeah, totally, which is why EVPN VXLAN helps us bridge that gap between legacy and future. We can handle layer 2 applications with the scalability of a layer 3 infrastructure