CNCF claimed 8,000 attendees and an additional 2,000 that were on a waitlist to attend this week's event. I think those on the waitlist snuck in.

In order to plan the transition to virtualizing their business, enterprises must consider the required functionality, as well as complexity, cost, and performance.

MEC is an idea whose time has come. And for mobile operators, advertisers, and OTT providers, it's also an idea that can't come soon enough.

To be successful in the cloud world, there needs to be an organizational shift within companies to encompass both change management and skills management.

To understand where next-gen communications will be tomorrow, look to the 5G trials of today.

The company’s got about a year to turn around its Oracle cloud business if it’s going to meet its lofty goals.

As technology domains shift to support agile-based methodologies, DevOps processes, and programmability, the network must undergo this same transformative shift.

The widespread deployment of cloud infrastructure has led IT teams to demand freedom of choice, but that might not always be what’s best for the organization as a whole.

Having your SD-WAN delivered as-a-service helps simply the network and free up IT resources to focus on growth generating opportunities.

Cloud-native architectures are already impacting data science, IoT, and other areas and will provide both the threat of being disrupted and the opportunity for innovation.

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

Some in attendance at the computing giant's Ignite event thought that Azure innovation was lacking and that Google was a stronger long-term rival to AWS.

Both cloud-native and traditional organizations must implement a security practice that offers automation, abstraction, flexibility, visibility, and is application-aware.

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.

The RISC-V initiative is creating a free and open instruction set architecture for the next generation of chipsets.

Moving the security perimeter into the cloud helps companies that are struggling with the budget and talent needed to keep security in-house.

I lived through the 3G and 4G hype but I don’t remember the breadth of hype being quite as insane as it is for 5G.

Traditional routing fails to differentiate between application and user requirements. SD-WAN is changing that with identity awareness.

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

Current networks require an intent-based networking system based on proper orchestration to keep current infrastructure intact while integrating next-generation platforms.

There seem to be a lot more European vendors, emerging from anonymity, that are having success in network virtualization.

Edge devices will create a tsunami of data, and while using databases would seemingly help tame the volumes of data at the edge, databases don’t work at the edge.

Success in multi-cloud environments will be characterized by the adoption of an operational framework that can exploit all the advantages of a multi-cloud world.

Inadequate container security is increasingly leading to strikes related to ransomware, cryptomining, data theft, and service disruption attacks.