Lack of expertise and integrated tools, not indifference, is leaving NetOps behind DevOps in the race to automate the deployment pipeline.

For a server to be truly dispensable, it should be able to be shut down at will or fail without any noticeable end-user impact.

DevOps teams face a steep learning curve with best practices related to deploying, running, and managing the lifecycle of a containerized application.

While MEC is set to address the data demand of 5G networks, adding network programmability to MEC ameliorates the overall MEC solution.

As the network continues to evolve and change, IT professionals have to adapt and learn in order to keep up, and employers must find ways to verify that perspective.

Having digital twins that learn at the edge can help ease concerns over data custody, confidentiality, and privacy as major cloud vendors deliver more machine learning-based insights to the

The modern infrastructure needs to embrace DevOps principles and apply its methodologies to the network.

Service providers want to leverage the benefits of NFV and, more broadly, cloudification.

With DevOps, you have to be continually developing, testing, integrating, and deploying changes.

Organizations must build key programming skills in their network engineers.

Software defined infrastructure sprawl is worst where it is compound.

VNFs are part and parcel of SD-WAN's next wave of evolution.

What used to take hours now takes minutes, or less.

OVS is a critical component of SDN deployments.

CT ensures that a new feature is tested at every stage from planning to design.

Combine the flexibility of NFV with the network programmability offered by SDN.

Organizations that embrace a two-tier network architecture will be more likely to thrive in the future.

Telcos looking at virtualization can look to where it's been done before.

New advances open the gate for SDN in the optical arena.

Achieve the “big bang” transformation.

Innovation applications will change the ways we interact.

Managing data center operations and infrastructure.

Extending SDN programmability all the way across the WAN.

NFV can deliver tremendous rewards.