Navigating Cloud & Digital Transformation Challenges – Insights from ONUG Spring 2019

Last week, the AppNeta team traveled to Dallas for ONUG Spring 2019, where we connected with industry leaders to discuss the obstacles and best‑practice solutions enterprises face when prioritizing connected technologies.

The event’s focus was Digital Transformation—a concept that varies widely across organizations. Success hinges on defining clear objectives and measuring progress against those goals, which often differ from one company to another.

Across the board, a single trend dominates: the shift to cloud. Building robust hybrid or multi‑cloud infrastructures remains one of the most complex challenges in this journey.

We’ve partnered with businesses across industries on their cloud transitions, and we firmly believe that active and passive monitoring is indispensable at every stage. Baseline performance before migration and rigorous post‑migration measurement keep teams informed and enable swift remediation when performance deviates.

Key monitoring benefits include:

• Establishing business‑critical application baselines prior to any network overhaul.
• Using those baselines to inform network policy design.
• Verifying that policies are deployed correctly and deliver expected outcomes.
• Continuously optimizing as networks evolve and new apps or workflows are introduced.

As organizations move to the cloud, complexity rises dramatically.

Hybrid and multi‑cloud architectures are quickly becoming the standard for Digital Transformation, yet the expertise required to deploy them successfully often exceeds the capabilities of many teams. In fact, many enterprises are only just discovering that a cloud transition is feasible for their networks—and are unaware of the full scope of migration work involved.

The demand for comprehensive network, infrastructure, and application assurance is growing. IT must manage SaaS consumption, large‑scale deployments, evolving architectures (such as SD‑WAN), and increasing cloud dependencies. A 4‑Dimensional monitoring approach—capturing path data, packet traces, web synthetics, and flow analytics—provides the actionable insights IT needs to drive performance and reliability.

AppNeta serves on ONUG’s Monitoring & Analytics working group, collaborating with vendors to develop a reference application that helps networking teams align with the right partners for their digital transformation roadmap.

Learn more about our holistic approach to network performance monitoring and how we can partner with your organization for a successful transformation. Download our whitepaper, “The Four Dimensions of Performance Monitoring.”

And if we missed you at ONUG, we’ll be prominently featured at Cisco Live 2019 in San Diego starting June 10. Book a meeting in advance or visit booth #3115 to experience AppNeta in action.