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INOCYBE TECHNOLOGIES Simplifying the Deployment, Management of Intelligent Open Networks

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ver the past few years, there have been a multitude of reports predicting that widespread SDN adoption is not only inevitable, but explosive. IDC published a study of the SDN market earlier this year and predicted a 53.9% CAGR (compound annual growth rate) from 2014 through 2020, by which point the market will be valued at $12.5b.

However, SDN itself remains largely out of sight in proof-of-concept trials.

While that means it hasn’t found much of a home in commercial projects, some companies have fully integrated SDN with their business plans. These companies include Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft.

Efforts to Accelerate the Future of SDN Industry

Certainly, 100% utilization is nothing to ignore, and it calls into question why we haven’t seen SDN truly catch hold on a commercial scale. Executives are aware of SDN’s benefits, but those benefits are relatively difficult to quantify.

It’s a classic problem -- how do you spur the adoption of an unproven technology (how do you get a job without experience)? Everybody believes in SDN, but nobody has the numbers to back it up, so it hangs in commercial stasis.

Executives are still wary of implementing widespread SDN protocols, even though SDN runs alongside traditional network infrastructure without issue.

The move toward agile development and continuous delivery is forcing companies to pursue new goals like elastic scaling, agile provisioning, and disaggregation. SDN is the key to realizing these goals, but current adoption rates show a good deal of reluctance. With SDN the network is more easily maintained, less expensive, and more flexible, as well.

SDN means a faster time to market with new services, and new services mean new revenue. It’s likely that application delivery use cases will be the ones to drive SDN adoption, focusing on application delivery improvements and the subsequent revenue increases. Application delivery will be improved by SDN’s operational efficiency, network services automation, rapid time to service, cloud integration, and any number of as-yet-undiscovered benefits that will be noticed upon full deployment.

In IHS Markit’s fourth annual carrier SDN survey, one-hundred percent of respondents said they intend to deploy SDN at some point. That’s a little too open ended, but there are numerous projects and companies attempting to accelerate the adoption of SDN right now.

Collaboration is at the heart of open source SDN. It seems that every week there are exciting new projects rising from these productive partnerships.

Recently, the Open Networking Foundation and Open Networking Lab agreed to become a single organization, combining their 180 companies and 17 partners under one umbrella with SDN standardization as its core goal.

Standardization will make SDN integration much easier, meaning adoption rates will get faster as they’re identified and implemented.

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EXPERT’S VIEWPOINT

STRATEGY VEIWPOINT

LEADER THOUGHT

Legal Practices Providing Real Value to the Clients

Signicant Take of Cloud Strategies in SD WAN Industry

Driving Digital Transformation with Enterprise Gamication

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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

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The Game-plan to Prepare for Software-Dened Networking

INDUSTRY TRENDS 5G Mobile Network: The Next Generation Revolution in the Making Or 5G Mobile Network: The Next Wave of Networking Tsunami will hit the Shore Soon

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INDUSTRY TAKE Why Cloud to Rule the Future?

STRATEGY TALKS The New Way Of BusinessMobility on Cloud

Asia Pacic Technology Systems: Advancing Security Services and Network Infrastructure in the Industry

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Complete Communications: Creating the business case for SD-WAN and making management easy

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Forward Networks: Accelerating and De-Risking Network Operations

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SDN Solution Providers: Transforming the Industry to the Next Level

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DN is one of the latest technologies designed for Network Control. SDN can allow a Network Manager to change the way the network devices, i.e. Routers, Switches etc., handle packets by allowing complete control of the rules set into network devices from a central console. SDN allows for the entire control of as network to allow quick response to changing network or business needs.

Thus, to showcase, we have come up with the issue of “The 10 Most Valuable SDN Solution Providers 2017” for our insightful magazine.

On the cover we have, Inocybe Technologies is the leading Open Networking and OpenDaylight Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology provider from the data center to the network edge.

We have also listed; Asia Pacific Technology System has been making waves with each project it successfully carries out. The business initially focused mainly on small scale businesses to cater to the void existing in the personnel systems market and to fulfill ever demanding customer requirements.

We have included, Complete Communication offers a proprietary technology that helps in determining the availability of carriers at each location of an enterprise and assists in providing services accordingly.

Flip the page and you will see, Forward Networks has quickly positioned itself as a market leader and a thought leader in the newly emerging space of Intent-Based Networking, delivering a platform with the analytical tools and insights that can verify network implementations are in alignment with business and network intent.

We have included extraordinary articles written by industry experts and some masterly written articles by our in-house editors named The Gameplan to Prepare for Software-Defined Networking, Entrepreneurship Fostering in Emerging Markets and 5G Mobile Network: The Next Generation Revolution in the Making.

Hope this issue will mark an impression on your mind.

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Simplifying the Deployment Management of Intelligent Open Networks

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oftware defined networking (SDN) is not a technology, rather architecture for the next generation of networks. By definition, SDN is the separation of the hardware plane from network devices and the operating system that manages network traffic and security. Traditionally, cloud service providers, telecoms, and some enterprises have made significant investments in closed, proprietary network solutions from vendors like Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper, Nokia, Huawei, and others. These solutions were designed to allow their customers to manage mainframe functionality and client-server applications in a nonvirtualized world. The Internet of Things (IoT), public cloud,

virtualization, and mobility has rendered these closed network architecture archetypes of the past.

The current industry scenario for SDN is to allow customers to have more network functionality to control resources, provision revenuegenerating services from a myriad of service providers, and deploy softwarebased solutions on commodity hardware. SDN is allowing organizations to extend their technology footprint outside of the data center and to the edge.

Cloud, IoT and 5G are changing how modern networks are operated and deployed at scale. Inocybe's Open Networking Platform is the first to

enable enterprises and service providers to deploy software defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization (NV) solutions across an integrated and consumable environment. Inocybe Technologies is the leading Open Networking and OpenDaylight Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology provider from the data center to the network edge.

Inocybe’s Open Networking Platform and services enables customers to simplify the deployment, management and upgradability of automated and intelligent networks based on the leading, emerging and innovative open networking software. The Inocybe

MATHIEU LEMAY CEO

Open Networking Platform accelerates the adoption of automated and intelligent networking for enterprises and service providers based on OpenDaylight and other projects like FD.io, PNDA and ONAP. Backbones of Inocybe Technologies Mathieu Lemay, CEO of Inocybe Technologies, the leading Open Networking and OpenDaylight Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology provider from the data center to the network edge and CTO of Civimetrix Telecom a company deploying Open Access Networks.

Mathieu has more than 20 years of experience in information technology.

At the age of 10 he was programming C++, ADA and x86 ASM and then got involved in networking from the early Bulletin Board Systems to the first commodity Internet. He earned a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Wireless and Optical Telecommunications.

Inocybe Technologies is a member of OpenDaylight since June 2013 and Mathieu is currently a committer to the Docs and Reservation projects. After 9 years at being CEO, Mathieu has acquired intensive knowledge business administration.

Inocybe Technologies has been involved in networking innovation for over a decade. Their main vision has always been that network management is too complicated and consists of too many manual processes.

With the industry’s creation of the OpenDaylight ecosystem in 2013, They saw that the majority of the members were building products out of OpenDaylight and the project itself was lacking in usability.

After years of helping service providers and enterprises successfully leverage OpenDaylight as part of their solutions, we had growing demand to provide and support the complete open networking stack. From the data center to the network edge, Inocybe is now the leading Open Networking and OpenDaylight Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology provider.

Promising Inocybe Product and Services The SDN marketplace is providing telecom and cloud service providers, Financial Services Companies and enterprises with the ability to reduce costs and latency, improve performance and reliability while improving scale and manageability across all aspects of their network.

Inocybe’s Open Networking Platform, and OpenDaylight (ODL) Software Defined Networking (SDN) controllers, helps its customers to accelerate time-to-market and interoperability when deploying networks. Inocybe’s solutions offer economies of scale by replacing expensive network hardware with software, thus decoupling traditional hardware functions from closed, proprietary software. Providing data centers with benefits including improved efficiency, enhanced security, and reduced operational costs. Inocybe differentiates itself from the competition by: ● Traffic engineering and segment routing to increase improvements in the measurement and management of network traffic while allowing for improved network quality of service (QoS)

● One of the hallmarks of Inocybe’s solution is their ability to deliver service function chaining (SFC).

SFC, in essence, creates a chain of connected network services like network addressing, firewalls, load balancers, intrusion detection in a virtual chain. SFC makes it easier for network operators to deploy revenue-generating services, provision virtual network functions (VNF), and other solutions more dynamically and efficiently. ● Full OpenDaylight NFVi integration with OpenStack.

Having a fully integrated solution organizations receive greater customization, improved operational efficiency, and scalability of their networks without having to spend countless hours and manpower integrating OpenStack functionality.

Inocybe is about helping its customers to deploy open and cohesive network services more efficiently, faster, and without the hassle of proprietary and traditional networking solutions.

Challenges faced during their business days The organization is lucky to be in an industry at a point in time when things are constantly changing. The industry is at an inflection point. Traditionally, cloud service providers, telecoms, and some enterprises have made significant investments in closed, proprietary network solutions from vendors like Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper, Nokia, Huawei, and others. These solutions were designed to allow their customers to manage mainframe functionality and client-server applications in a nonvirtualized world. The Internet of

Advancements in both technology and the industry have driven Inocybe to implement in the business: · A focus on service/solution interoperability - Fully integrated and reliable platform for deploying SDN and NFV solutions that will provide customers with an end-to-end “SDN/cloud in a box” solution. · Speed-to-Market - By having consistency between the network layers, it makes it easier to deploy revenue generating services and solutions faster and more reliably. · Focus on a lower TCO - Leveraging standards-based, open source solutions, customers can employ trusted Open Networking plugins, extensions and Open APIs for quick provisioning and managing services across virtualized, on premise, or hybrid cloud environments. · Avoiding Software/Service Obsolescence - Because Inocybe leverages open

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Our commitment to OpenDaylight(ODL) and open source set us apart from our competitors when it comes to transparency and exibility

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Things (IoT), public cloud, virtualization, and mobility has rendered these closed network architecture archetypes of the past. Inocybe’’s greatest strength has been in predicting, adapting and advancing with the trends as they continue to grow with the ever changing market.

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For the industry, we provide the most robust and exible solution for deploying SDN solutions within the telecom, service provider, and enterprise marketplace

source and industry standards, customers can avoid the high costs of network hardware and software upgrades by using cloud services, commodity hardware, and virtual environments.

Inocybe’s Target Markets The benefits gained by Inocybe’s clients such as carriers, service providers, and enterprises looking to deploy open networking/OpenDaylight (ODL) SDN and NFV solutions include: ● Carriers - The target market for carriers are tier 1 & 2 wishing to deploy new communications and services while bringing efficiency and value to their customers and internal networks. Inocybe is ideal for carriers that have already implemented OpenStack within their environment. ● Service Providers - Much like carriers, service providers want to improve their operations, but do not want cookie cutter solutions when deploying networking solutions.

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source solutions on commodity hardware, thereby reducing their Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and gaining considerable speed-to-market advantage when implementing new services and solutions. ● Enterprises - Many enterprises have made considerable investments in closed, proprietary hardware and software solutions. Large companies (especially financial services, retail, transportation, and manufacturing) are moving away from closed, expensive systems and are deploying open networking solutions such as network virtualization and SDN on commodity servers (and virtualized in the cloud). Furthermore, IoT has become a reality, and enterprises must have the ability to operate their networks at a lower cost, more scale, and from the data center to the edge. Inocybe provides an industrial grade platform that helps customers to reduce costs, improve network flexibility and performance.

2018 Predictions by Inocybe Artificial intelligence and machine learning will continue to be the most interesting story in technology; but, in 2018, Inocybe is looking for the actual value added by machine learning to operating models. The convergence of cloud, 5G and IoT will demand the implementation of intelligent (machine learning) and automated networks (SDN). These software-smart networks will be the foundation for improving the experience of everything from consumer interaction with voice and visual web products, to the expansion of B2B services.

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Asia Pacific technology Systems apts.lk

Namal Senaratna CEO

Asia Pacific Technology System preferred provider for corporate and business customers.

Complete Communication completecommunications.com

Blake Darling President

Complete Communication is a leading SD-WAN solution provider in the USA and many parts of the world.

Forward Networks forwardnetworks.com

David Erickson CEO Gary Kinghorn Marketing Director

Forward Networks delivers an innovative platform that provides network visibility, intent verification, and change modeling.

Juniper Networks juniper.net

Rami Rahim CEO

Delivering consistent value and achieving total customer satisfaction through superior products and services.

Network to code networktocode.com

Jason Edelman Founder

The Network Automation Company, is a network automation solution provider helping clients around the world reduce manual inefficiencies and and increased customer satisfaction.

Pica8 pica8.com

James Liao CEO

Pica8 builds networking platforms designed to optimize your applications.

Seacom seacom.mu

Byron Clatterbuck CEO

Seacom is privately owned and operated, allowing the company the agility to rapidly deploy new services, commercial structures and infrastructure in response to customer requirements.

Ufinet Telecom, S.A. ufinet.com

Andrea Saravia Sauter CEO

Ufinet provide data connectivity to our clients through fiber optic with extensive network coverage in major cities in 20 countries.

Tinytapps Software thetinytapps.com

Altaf Rehmani CEO

TinyTapps Software is a leading educational company which focuses on Early Learning. Its existing portfolio has 53+ educational apps which are a part of integrated curriculum for 3-6 year olds.

Zeetta Networks zeetta.com

Vassilis Seferidis CEO

Zeetta Networks transforms your network into an interactive programmable platform for better control, improved efficiency, enhanced performance and better cost controls of your existing infrastructure.

Asia Pacic Technology Systems: Advancing Security Services and Network Infrastructure in the Industry

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sia Pacific Technology Systems (Private) Limited, was inaugurated in August 2008 as an IT solutions provider in Sri Lanka. It was founded to bridge the gap in the local IT hardware sector for true value adding solutions, which were sought by most local companies at the time. The visionary thinking and proactive initiation of Founder, resulted in the incorporation of a much-needed business entity which, from its humble beginnings, has grown into a fully-fledged internationally recognized corporate.

Asia Pacific Technology System has been making waves with each project it successfully carries out. The business initially focused mainly on small scale businesses to cater to the void existing in the personnel systems market and to fulfill ever demanding customer requirements.

The Asia Pacific Technology System motto; “Right things for the Right reasons,” most precisely puts across the objectives and aims of the company in perspective. At times when most new IT companies struggle to face high tides to even survive the first two years, the owner has taken his company through the challenging times which engulf any start-up, to green pastures and beyond, reaching its eighth-year mile stone. His unwavering belief in sincerity, trust and keeping his promises to clients, together with

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perseverance, perspiration and being proactive has taken to great heights.

Magnificent Personality of APTS Everyone wants to be great and reach achievement milestones, but not everyone is willing to commit to the grueling process that being great requires. Many people give up after one try, one failure. They settle for being average instead of striving and working to be great.

But, this is a different character that breaks all the barriers and achieved the life so fast. He was born in Galle as the first child of his family. After school, in the year 2001 he joined with a mercantile firm as the start of his career path. He learned about the basic things in IT field through that job.

After few months he thought that he knows much better in the field and decided to start his own store in Colombo.

Mr. Namal Senararatna, owns a profitable organization in IT sector called Asia Pacific Technology Systems Private Limited.

Promising Services of APTS At a time when Sri Lankan businesses need turnkey solutions to stay competitive, the organization has become the preferred provider for corporate and business customers.

Backed by renowned and ever reliable products and financial strength, The

Company is a capable, flexible, and reliable solutions partner. The organization employs a consultative approach to meet the needs of modern business. It starts with a rigorous process of innovative thinking.

Advanced technology is used to ensure that every requirement is met.

Thousands of businesses of all types and sizes, in every sector of the economy, rely on their solutions. Some of the largest and most sophisticated integrated systems commissioned in Sri Lanka have been implemented by APTS. Every Asia Pacific Technology System Solution is covered by a multi-faceted service commitment that has set the standard in the local IT Industry.

Five ways of our products as follows: 1. Security Solutions - Protect your business from devastating threats and grow with peace of mind 2. Network Infrastructure - Make sure your data packets have seamless movement across the network 3. Wireless solutions - Essential for today’s mobile workforce 4. Managed Services - Scalability based on business demand; fewer delivery risks; and operational performance metrics tied to process excellence 5. Data center Solutions - The brain of a company and the place where the most critical processes are run.

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“To be a globally recognized company in the ICT industry, providing quality services that exceed client expectations and are reliable and exible” services that exceed client expectations and are reliable and flexible.”

Namal Senararatna CEO

Challenges Executed by Asia Pacific Technology System The organization no longer looks to the past to help predict the future. There are many challenges ahead in ensuring our organizations continue to survive. They had less resources and less money when they start. Now they have grown. Yet the expectations for product and service delivery are higher than ever.

It is now urgent that they quickly build or re-shape our organizational culture so that quality, in the delivery of their products and services, is “right things for right reasons.”

This will ensure a continued focus on organizational effectiveness, efficiency and the meeting of all customer requirements.

Asia Pacific Technology System all set for Executions in the Coming Business Days Asia Pacific Technology System vision is “to be a globally recognized company in the ICT industry, providing quality Dec- Jan 2018

Mission is “Building long term relationships with customers by providing exceptional customer service, pursuing business through innovation and latest technology and adding value by delivering the right service, at the right time, for the right reasons.”

Asia Pacific Technology System footsteps are· Expanding into various aspects and sectors of the ICT industry, while managing and developing a strong, loyal and satisfied customer base. · Increasing company investments to support the development of product delivery. · Building good reputation among customers and thriving to be a key player in the industry. · Inspire others on the team to get on board about future changes · Use collaborative tools to enact the changes and generate framework for larger organization · Automate processes within the organization to maintain efficiency while moving to that next level · Be prepared to make changes to the strategy along the way · Identifying current and planned needs or customer insight to shape new product or service development · Cross-selling of other products by highlighting and suggesting alternatives or enhancements · Train everyone who helps us in business · Raise our Leadership · Create a “Wow” experience for our customers and prospects · And, to achieve 1 billion in next year Asia Pacific Technology System firmly believes in treating their customers with respect and trust. They grow through valued services, timely delivery and profoundness in end solutions. They integrate honesty, integrity and business ethics into all aspects of their business that build relationships, professionalism, reliability, knowledge and skills.

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Strategy Veiwpoint

Significant Take of Cloud Strategies in

SD WAN Industry Have you heard of this thing called the “Cloud”?

If not then you have likely been hiding from technology for quite some time now.

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ignificant Take of Cloud Strategies in SD WAN Industry

Have you heard of this thing called the “Cloud”? If not then you have likely been hiding from technology for quite some time now.

The Cloud is where companies go to access their critical business applications. Over the last several years companies have been moving to a number of different Cloud strategies.

With critical business applications in the Cloud, how does an enterprise consumer get to the cloud? Today, it is done over the Internet or via a private connection to the application provider. Most offices today have multiple data circuits coming into their office. Why? Because if they cannot get to their applications their businesses go offline.

Traditionally, businesses have hired Senior Network Engineers to configure the onsite devices that one or two data circuits terminate into. The goal is to always have access to these critical applications. The devices traditionally used can be expensive, require skill sets that

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are not available in a given organization, have failovers that take too long and frankly do not have friendly analytics on the health of a consumer’s data circuits.

Fast forward to today. Most enterprise companies are looking into SD WAN solutions to remedy some of these current obstacles. Depending on the SD WAN option the consumer is looking into, a single or redundant device can essentially replace a traditional router, firewall, optimizer or wireless access device into a single turn-key device. The device software has a GUI interface that is user friendly and takes much of the traditional high level network engineering out of the equation. Depending on the device being used, the consumer can expect that they can plug multiple data circuits into the device and with very little effort setup and manage the device out of a single viewing panel. One of the major benefits is the ability to make changes and updates with a single click of a button to all the devices on the network. For a retail organization that has several hundreds of devices this is a dream come true.

Additionally, SD WAN devices are constantly policing and

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monitoring the health of the data circuits to make sure the consumer traffic is taking the most optimal routes to their applications.

Perimeters can be setup to notify an IT organization of potential issues on the circuit(s) in the network. This allows a much better user experience.

A great example is the WAZE app on my mobile phone. I can put in the same origination and destination points several times in a given week and it will provide various routes based on the dynamic travel information available at that moment. The same is true with SD WAN circuits.

As a global service provider that provides enterprise business consumers with data circuits this is a real game changer. Businesses will have analytics and tools available to them that have never been so easily accessible. As we continue to move to a world of voice over the internet and video over the internet these devices will enhance the user experience immensely and provide automatic failover nearly without incident.

Imagine a sales person on the phone with a very important client. The office internet drops offline but is automatically rerouted to the “other” data circuit. The call is never dropped. It is as if the incident did not take place. The same goes for mission critical applications that sit in the cloud.

We live in exciting times as it relates to technology and if you haven’t heard about the role SD WAN will play, you most certainly will.

In the near future, organizations will enjoy a faster experience to these mission critical applications with less opportunity of experiencing the inability to reach them.

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Rick Crabbe President

About Author Rick Crabbe is the President at Threshold Communications. He holds a degree course from Washington State University and contributed his massive skills to Airbone Express and McLeod USA. Currently he is working at Threshold Communications is a global full service telecommunications provider.

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loud Computing has surprised us by its vast uses and it is getting bigger and bigger. Take a few examples- Unlimited storage of the emails for infinite time, 120 hours of videos every minute are getting uploaded on YouTube, and to support new smartphones, a server gets activated every 10 seconds and these are just a few uses of Cloud Computing.

When the data is stored on the hard drive, it’s called a local storage and computing. How will cloud computing evolve?

And how will it affect the future? Are some of the questions an organization aims to find out the answers to. Here are some predictions for the companies that look to cloud computing being cost-effective in a long-term.

More Application Availability in the Cloud

The future has a great promise when it comes to the cloud.

No doubt, cloud computing has taken off in the recent years with business applications and new innovations. But knowing where will be the cloud computing by the end of the decade can be very useful to the organizations.

Cloud computing is a kind of computer hard drive with a difference of storing and accessing data over the internet.

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It’s estimated that by the end of 2020, more than a quarter of all applications will be available on the cloud. More than 58 percent of the companies spend about 10 percent of their annual budget on the cloud, while about 56 percent of the companies think cloud to be a strategic differentiator. As researchers predicted, there will be about 8.2 billion active

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Industry Take

mobile devices by the end of the decade with more and more applications to follow. Applications will be made available on the cloud to build and deploy applications that would lead to better technology and faster response time.

Migration to Private Clouds with More Education Companies are starting to know the dierences between public, private and hybrid cloud computing. Companies opting to stay with the shared clouds will have the risk of the slower performance and more security threats, which would result in the migration to private clouds in the future.

Increased Hybrid Cloud Computing Some industry leader predicts that about 50 percent of the companies will have hybrid clouds by 2017. As we see a number of companies are adopting cloud, we see CIOs are crafting new and well though strategies, which includes hybrid cloud. If it was possible, then everything available in the businesses would have moved to the cloud because of today’s complex

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environment. Which is why hybrid gives more reasons for businesses like on and o premises which allow organizations to achieve the highest performance of on-premises solutions and also cloud business model’s management convenience.

Increased Growth of Cloud in the Market The cloud has been developing over the years and will be accelerating globally in the future. Enterprises have been relying on the cloud to market, develop, and manage supply chains, sell products and more.

Industry experts expect cloud adoption to hit USD 250 billion by 2017. They also expect that the worldwide SaaS (Software as a Service) would grow at an outstanding rate of 20.2 percent every year.

With the kind of growth SaaS is promising; it will not be surprising to say that companies will be looking for Cloud Computing as a service.

Increased Cloud Development More development will be going to the cloud. As cloud computing is evolving, we can expect more and more developers going towards the cloud development. An 85 percent of the new applications are being built with the cloud in mind, which expect to major resources going towards the cloud development.

Companies can expect an increase in the third party, commercial and enterprise developers and API exchanges. Cloud development will also give us more reasons to adopt it.

More Innovation Due to Cloud The cloud space has given way to better products, services, and innovation due to increased competition.

The cloud will make the traditional phenomenon that refers to how companies required to become like the competitors in order to achieve high mainstream success. With the kind of growth and innovation, the cloud has given to the industry so far, and it would be easy to say that more innovation will be made due to the cloud.

End of Traditional Infrastructure Due to the evolving features of the cloud, software can be expected to almost completely stay away from hardware, since many companies are starting to search many applications available online by eliminating the need to keep buying new servers. Companies can expect software applications to get more complex and larger for scalability. The emphasis will be mostly on modular software since applications tend to get larger. The modular software will require a novel approach to the technology by saying goodbye to the traditional infrastructure.

The Cloud Computing is leading the industry towards the revolution and only those companies will survive who will adopt the cloud computing, ultimately Cloud will be ruling the future.

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Complete Communications: Creating the business casefor SD-WAN and making management easy

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he Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) market is expected to grow from USD 3.68 Billion in 2017 to USD 54.41 Billion by 2022, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 71.4%.

Companies around the world are looking towards SD-WAN. One of the biggest advantages of a successful SD-WAN deployment is to be able to save money on your monthly WAN costs. The ability to identify the underlying carrier that can offer desired speeds at a particular location with the proper diversification is one of the biggest challenges for an organization in regard to SD-WAN. Complete Communications’ proprietary technology helps determine the availability of carriers at each location of an enterprise and builds the ROI for easy financial approval.

Complete Communications is a prominent name in the field of networking technology that is known for delivering advanced SD-WAN solution to its clients. The firm has expertise in SD-WAN solutions that help an organization move into hybrid WAN or dual internet without compromising network performance

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and security. By leveraging SD-WAN in conjunction with Complete Communications, customers have witnessed an unprecedented savings of 40%-60% on their WAN, and achieved faster bandwidth, cost savings, and agility in running their applications.

“The convergence of applications being hosted in the cloud and end users accessing them via mobile phones is accelerating advancements in SD-WAN technologies,” says Blake

Darling, President and CEO of Complete Communications.

Complete Communications is fully engaged with clients from conception to rollout, and thereafter. They provide a tailor-made solution to meet the customer needs and requirements.

Blake adds “All customer solutions are unique, and not one bandwidth or procurement model is the same for a particular company. Complete can customize solutions based on their requirements and deliver accurate information to help the customer make the best overall decision for their organization”. Complete

Communications, like SD-WAN is transport agnostic. This helps customers take full advantage of the overall capabilities of SD-WAN. They build a custom ROI for each customer, leveraging their proprietary dashboard offerings. “It shows our customers how much money they can save by implementing SD-WAN. It also provides the carrier architecture and road-map that can provide the best overall value for the customer as per their network needs,” states Blake.

Complete’s services are free to the customer and paid for by the service providers to project manage the entire implementation. Complete Communications has been a pioneer in the SD-WAN space, working with Cisco Systems, closely building the carrier architecture and ROI to justify Cisco SD-WAN solutions. Apart from these facets, aggressive pricing, fastest install, best speed, and redundancy, are the core reasons behind the immense popularity and wider acceptability of its products and services worldwide.

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he radical change in the innovative technology, is changing the basics of the enterprises function. The way of the businesses today is very much affected by the convergence of enterprise mobility with Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics and Social Media. The mantra for a successful business today is to observe and adopt the way employees, partners and customers connect and energetically engage in fulfilling business objectives and attaining the enterprise goals in record time. This is the reason, that the enterprises of today have to follow the current trends in the real time.

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Approximately, 70% of the North American workforce is now mobile, cloud-based environments require a transparent mobile policy management strategy. As is observed, more and more data of the companies, nowadays is residing on mobile devices and is distributed on off-site servers, protecting that data is becoming a mission-critical priority. That is the reason that security concerned enterprises are more concentrating on the three critical mobility factors as they evaluate and deploy cloud computing. The three important factors are:

There is one more paradigm shift the IT industry is observing, and that is the entrance of Enterprise Mobility in the business. With the use of it now critical business data, complex analytics and reports are getting available to the decision makers and executives in no time. The vast acceptance of the Mobile Phones and Tablets burgeon the businesses.

Easy access to cloud-based data and applications from anywhere at any time

With anytime-anywhere access to the business data for swift decision making and improved customer service, is only getting possible with the use of Enterprise Mobile Device Management (MDM). In this way Mobility on Cloud is helping SME’s to get benefited by the technological advances.

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The availability of the flexibility of the mobile workforce is only possible with the enablement of easy access to the cloud-based data and applications from anywhere at any time. The workers today have to travel from one place to another switching between various public, private, wired and wireless networks in order to get access to the corporate applications. Mobile workers have to manually select and connect to the best available network in the given location because of this. This creates a confusion in between the workers what network to select, what policies to apply and etc. just because of the connectivity process is left on the

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end-users. This whole process is the reason of less productivity on the part of the mobile workers.

Unnecessary Access Costs Wi-Fi and 3G like technologies are getting used to access cloud-based data and applications by the mobile workers today, from anywhere, on the road, from a hotel or a home office. This is becoming a reason of extra cost, when you are supposed to gain from the cloud computing environment. Most of the time this cost becomes unnecessary, like paying for LAN or Wi-Fi fees when a mobile worker is in an area covered by his paid 3G subscription, using 3G when roaming internationally or using 3G when a free or low-cost Wi-Fi or LAN option is available.

Security Concern Today, many enterprises are investing on endpoint security solutions and corporate VPNs, data compromise is still a big threat for enterprises because of a variety of threats that stem from network bridging, visits to malicious Web sites, download of malicious software, and use of open and unencrypted networks. The process of connecting to wired and wireless networks is a manual, user-driven process makes the risk high. Despite these high risks, enterprises can maintain itself against these risks with the Mobile Policy Management (MPM): The critical mobility factors of cost control, security and end-user connectivity for cloud-based enterprises, comes under a term, ‘Mobile Policy Management (MPM)’. MPM adds to the overall return on investment of cloud-based initiatives through reduced costs and improved security.

MPM helps enterprises to: Pre-define network prioritization policies MPM helps IT to pre-define network prioritization policies and assign specific mobile policies to a given network for cloud and non-cloud data and application access. By automating network selection and mobile access policies, MPM boosts the mobile workforce productivity.

Additionally, MPM helps IT to pre-define network selection

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rules and assign mobile policies to each type of network.

MPM solution automatically selects the best available network as defined by IT, connects the user and applies the relevant mobile policies, while the mobile workers roam around. This gives the worker a remote access and connectivity transparent to end-users, saving their valuable time when accessing cloud and non-cloud data and applications.

Enables to cost-optimizing network selection MPM enables an option of ‘cost-optimizing network selection’ to reduce the cost of mobile data usage by cost-optimizing network selection. Leaving network selection up to the end-user can drive data costs far over budget and create significant cost liabilities, for the enterprises. For an instantance, a mobile worker with an unlimited 3G subscription should avoid connecting to, paying for and expensing hotel Wi-Fi when in an area covered by a 3G local provider. For the enterprises benefit, MPM platform avoids unbudgeted data costs by helping IT to define and enforce a network white list, preventing users from adding unsanctioned laptop communications options to their mobile PCs. Avoids common Data-Security Threats The data security threats occur only because of the rogue access points or networks that are in place to lure mobile workers onto them in order for hackers to gain access to corporate data like public Wi-Fi access points in airports labeled “free Wi-Fi” or rogue Wi-Fi placed in proximity to corporate offices. Though there are security solutions working for the same, but of no use. When a mobile worker is working and visiting various places an MPM platform enables IT to dynamically automate and enforce network-specific security policies.

Enterprises who are deploying cloud computing are influencing Mobile Policy Management to gain organization-wide visibility and control over their mobile workforce.

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Forward Networks: Accelerating and De-Risking Network Operations

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etworks continue to become more and more complex as they grow in response to traffic and application demands. Intentdriven approaches are an important element of simplifying network operations and ensuring policy compliance. Forward Networks has quickly positioned itself as a market leader and a thought leader in the newly emerging space of Intent-Based Networking, delivering a platform with the analytical tools and insights that can verify network implementations are in alignment with business and network intent. IBN, as it is known, is software that helps administrators plan, design, implement and operate networks in a way that improves availability, agility, and efficiency.

challenges that network engineers and operators were experiencing trying to keep their networks running, secure, and agile. They experienced challenges themselves while operating some of the first SDN deployments at Stanford running OpenFlow. They soon realized that network operations technology had been under-invested in for years, and decided it was time to bring improvements to network operations that SDN had failed to deliver. David and his team built a platform that simplifies operation of the world’s largest networks to increase visibility and reduce the risk of errors and outages.

Forerunners of Forward Networks

Forward Networks flagship product, Forward Enterprise, is a solution that lets network operators quickly analyze network behavior to identify problem areas and proactively head off network outages. It supports visibility and analysis into both virtual networks, such as VMware ESXi virtual switches, as well as physical devices from nearly all major network, security, and application delivery controller vendors. It lets users get a better understanding of their network topology and inventory, and allows them to test the potential behavior of the network under any condition.

Forward Networks, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, was founded in July 2013 by four Ph.D. graduates from Stanford University, David Erickson, Brandon Heller, Nikhil Handigol, and Peyman Kazemian.

These Co-founders are pioneers of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and have spent their careers working to improve networking, as contributors to OpenFlow. David Erickson, Co-founder, CEO at Forwards Networks, had also worked to improve workload performance in Virtualized Data Centers. During their extensive work, they came across various routine

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Products and Services That Sets Forward Networks Apart

The primary focus of Forward

Networks within the IBN space is around network verification, a systematic analysis based on a mathematical model of the network to verify that network implementations are aligned with network intent as determined by high-level business, network and security policies.

Verification can catch errors and policy violations before they arise in live network traffic through the intelligent analysis of current network state and configuration files. Forward Networks creates a precise software model of the network, including every potential traffic flow of packets within it. On top of this behaviorally accurate software model, users can now search, verify and analyze network attributes and configuration in unprecedented ways with greater efficiency. The primary use case being verifying that all intent-based policies are accurately represented in the network’s configuration and behavior.

Aiding and Planning to Overcome Challenges Forward Networks — a startup that emerged from stealth at the end of 2016 - has built a platform aimed at service providers and enterprises to analyze their networks and identify problems that cause network outages and to accelerate remediation. The usual challenges of raising capital and building a team were overcome through the reputation and Dec- Jan 2018

“The best search and verication solution for Intent Based Networking” move the industry towards a focus on software and automation. The basis of SDN is virtualization, which in its most simplistic form allows software to run separately from the underlying hardware. Virtualization has made cloud computing possible and now allows datacenters to dynamically provision IT resources exactly where they are needed. SDN promises to enable network technology innovation and versatility while reducing complexity and administrative overhead. Intent-based Networking and network verification promise to build on the vision of SDN to bring even greater levels of efficiency at scale and to better align network implementations with business objectives and policies.

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David Erickson Co-founder and CEO

accomplishments of the co-Founders. The Forward Networks team had strong relationships with Martin Casado, who they worked with at Stanford on OpenFlow and SDN technology, and who is now at Andreesen Horowitz (a16z). Andreesen Horowitz became an early investor, along with DFJ, and A.Capital. With the excitement surrounding this space and the proximity to Stanford and Silicon Valley, Forward Networks was able to attract some of the leading talent from Cisco, Google, Facebook, Riverbed, Juniper, Apple and others to build a truly revolutionary platform.

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Forward Networks customers have increased their business agility by accelerating network changes and increasing network availability. Operational costs are reduced by increasing operational efficiency and providing greater visibility and verification of network behavior across the organization. Configuration errors in the network are eliminated that would cause potential outage and security violations, de-risking the network and business.

Rising towards a Bright Future Forward Networks expects to expand into multiple industries from its initial success in financial services, telecommunications, service and IT providers, and large manufacturing. With any new technology and approach, there is a certain degree of market education that has to take place for a new operational approach and new platform. They plan to continue innovating on the base platform and build on the main applications that it has today of Search, Verify, and Predict.

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