Digital experience monitoring (DEM) will become increasingly important to provide visibility into how well the network and applications are performing. As the name suggests, it is not just applicable to the human experience of an application, although that is a key use. It is equally well suited to monitoring the performance of IoT systems and API-driven systems.
To ensure good operational visibility into the network, event management should be implemented in conjunction with a comprehensive DEM deployment. Event management is when the network and applications send alerts about problems, while DEM reports when applications (both human and digital) are performing poorly. Other systems, such as performance monitoring, facilitate troubleshooting.
AI will continue to surprise us, especially as we learn from the public release of the ChatGPT system. It is remarkably good at taking short task descriptions and producing fully developed results. I can’t predict what will happen in this area because it is moving so quickly, although I would guess it will be a mix of good and not so good.
More realistic and applicable to networking is the use of MO. Good examples of its applicability are in event processing (Moogsoft and BigPanda). These systems look good - they correlate events and reduce clutter, allowing you to identify key events that impact network performance. I would like to see MO applied to integrate event management with performance management to help identify root causes. The findings can then inform modifications to ChatOps so that it can report failures to the network team in a way that enables rapid problem detection (possibly via DEM), automated data collection, root cause determination, and team collaboration.
5. Migration to the cloud
More and more companies and applications will move to the cloud. This will create a need for various types of security tools, including cloud access security brokers (CASBs) and SASE.
What we won't see
I do not expect to see unified network georgia mobile database systems from different vendors, as vendors will continue to focus on their own controller architectures and APIs. Thus, organizations will use multiple management systems for wireless, identity, routing/switching infrastructure, and firewalls. It is not uncommon for an enterprise network management system to include a huge number of products: network performance, network configuration, identity system, security monitoring, firewall management, DNS/DHCP/IP address (DDI) management, event monitoring, etc. Each system has its own interface. This is the opposite of a single pane of glass. This is why the “manager of managers” has a potential future.