Essay: Trends In Network Design And Management" (45 Characters)

In this paper, you will research and report on network design and management trends over the last three years (present year minus 2) in the areas of virtualization, security, hardware, network management tools, software defined networking, and wireless. Choose, at least, three areas and explain the general trend and trends within two subsets of the area (i.e., security has subsets of physical, perimeter, monitoring) over the last three years. Use at least one figure from Google Trends showing a trend discussed in your paper. Support your information and make sure all information sources are appropriately cited.

Virtualization

Virtualization

Virtualization has been influential in the current technology. Many organization are cutting cost of purchasing network equipments, hiring system administrators to maintain their networks ("5 Networking Trends for 2017 – Merit", 2018). Organizations are moving all their services to the cloud. ERP are being hosted in Salesforce. Mail services are being leased from the cloud providers. With this virtualization companies are maximizing their profit making as they reduce the daily expenses. The companies which provides this cloud computing have integrated monitoring utilities for their customers ("Networking trends 2017: Cloud, wireless, pace change", 2018).   So any one can login to cloud check the health and status of their infrastructure. Real time monitoring has help the virtualization by ensuring that there is less down time in providing services. Hybrid virtualization has been also adopted whereby organization host some of their services in cloud for example instead of having a locally Microsoft Exchange server organization just buy the services from cloud. With the locally hosted applications, organization have adopted the use of hypervisors for virtualization. They just buy one hardware which is powerful and all the operating systems will run on a single hardware. Unlike the traditional way where each server resides on its own hardware. This was much expenses in terms of cost, space and maintenance.

Security

Security in every organization has been the current trends. System administrators and Cyber Security advisors are facing huge challenge in terms of addressing security issues in organizations ("A Survey Architecture Interface and Security Issues in Software Defined Networking", 2018). Recently sophisticated malwares have risen. Several organization have been attacked by the Ransom wares such as SMB Vulnerability which have cause huge losses to companies.  Google play store, Microsoft and Apple stores have been the victim of this security challenges. Malicious attackers have found a way of embedding malicious codes into their application in order infiltrate into user’s privacy and vendor’s infrastructure such as stores.  Also risks assessment in an organization has been another trend. The threats keep on changing in the current world, therefore they need to be a new methods of mitigating these threats.  In USA Case of elections investigation have been ongoing about who influence the election. This threats also has dominated by the politics and economy. Some are state sponsored while others are for self-gained attacks.

Software Defined Networking

Conventional network device are faced with problems of managing and its complexity of deploying in a complex infrastructure ("A Survey Architecture Interface and Security Issues in Software Defined Networking", 2018). So setting up this conventional network devices is time consuming and face with a lot of errors. Since introduction of virtualization in cloud computing, we have seen several organization migrating their infrastructure to the cloud. So for cloud computing providers they have to adopt network virtualization as service. Physical network have been replaced by the virtual systems for example telephone PABX hardware system was replace by the software which requires only the user to configure and make calls online. Virtual switches also has been introduce in virtualization. So several instances of operating system running on hypervisors communicate through virtual switches therefore cost of purchasing this hardware has been drastically reduced. Also with the software defined networking open standards, protocols and open systems are being introduced.  One of the social media leading company Facebook has proposed Wedge top of rack switch to OCP. Also Hewellerd Packard is partnering with Accton Company and Cumulus Networks Company to developed open network switches (Rojas, 2018). So these are just but a few. Many companies are venturing on this open systems.

Security

Hardware

Internet of things [I.O.T]. They have been introduction of smart devices which they can perform task as per instructions through the internet. In areas where the environment is too harsh most of this smart devices are being used. They will be able to relay the required information in real time. Automation for several machines are done for example thermometers, hydrometer for weather forecasting and other wearable devices which are being used in supply chain (O'Connor & O'Connor, 2018).

Google Trends

The giant of internet search Google shows that end of privacy, virtual reality and computing power is what is trending (Jain, 2018). The trends are from the analytics being done by the Google through searches. People are more into virtualization, and distributed system. Virtual reality movies such as Game of Thrones which uses virtual reality to be produce is one of the most search in the internet. Google are developing powerful super computers for computation. A client will just need to send job to the computation server then it wait for results.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, network design and management’s current trend in digitization offer large growth in technology. Mobility of devices are now dominating the entire industry. The organizations can now concentrate on the main business goals while cloud computing providers concentrates to offer the best services to their customers.

Network design and management has really evolved over the previous years. They have been a lot of challenges that vendors have been trying to address in order for them to provide extensive network management needs to the consumers. Lucent Technologies and Bells Labs are the vendors which have helped in advancing the network tools being used as well as being in up front for a better management tools in network. Currently cloud computing has been a game changer in the technology, it has provided several opportunities to many organization in terms of network as a service. Though the technology is being transform they are still many challenges to be address include network security and hardware capabilities.

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