Network Design and Management Trend from 2016 till now
Introduction
The smooth running or operation of network systems demands proper network design and management. Network design and management make use of different methods, and procedures in ensuring a network system is functioning properly. It can be said that the main aim of network design and management is to ensure that exchange of data in a network system is efficient, consistent and reliable. Furthermore, network design and management focus on the overall administration of a network system such as the maintenance, operation and network provision (Huang, 2015).
As a result of this, Trends in network design and management concentrate on the examination of design and pattern of elements that supports the smooth operation of a network. Over the years, many trends have been seen in network design and management; some of these trends in the past two years such as security, virtualisation, and software defined networking are discussed in this paper.
Security
Security experts face new threats every day and find a means of paralyzing the threats. In network security, new threats are discovered everyday with dynamic features which means there is need to constantantly creating new solutions to tackles these threats. According to Huang (2015), for the past two years now, politics stand as the main determinant of how powerful a network security of public and private sector is. In general, an example is the malware stream. In the case of apple, some of the app developer were deceived to incude malware codes in the application page during development and made the system to be infected using insider as a vehicle to convey such malacious act.
This as a trend is malacious and makes the IOS to be the main target of every hacker. In terms of physical security, another trend observed in 2016 is the increase of amount charged for fines in data protection. The European Union made a siginificant achievement in protecting the EU residents by approving General Data Protection Regulation. This implies that organizations will face serious penalties if the data of the people is not secured according to the regulations. This will go along way in forcing organizations to take customers data protection serious as failure to comply will lead to penalties (Huang, 2015).
Another subset of security is cyber and network consolidation. This involved the education of employees and social engineering. This stands as a good approach to tackle prevention of breaches as hackers increase daily in their skills and become more sophiscated in carrying out attacks. The idea behind this trend is that organizations should focus on social engineering by educating staff member of security. This aim at ensuring the staffs is security concious by using technology at their reach smartly.
Another observation over the years is that cyber crimnals have made use of exploit kits for many years now. These kits are used to frequently attack vulnerable websites. Hackers use same malware kits as that of security experts and has become the challenges faced to totally eradicate cyber criminals as these tools are used by hackers to attack their victim with any malware (Stallings, 2017)..
Source: Goggle Trend search, network security, 2018
The image above shows that network security has increased for the past two years as its current position surpases the position it maintained two years ago. it can also be said that the trend has also maintained stability in the field of network design and management .
Software Defined Networking
This as an approach deals with the use of open interface programs by administrator to initialize, change, control, and manages the network. As far back as 2011 it is known for openflow protocol. This over the years has accompanied the trend based on software defined networking.
The capacity of new environments is overseen by the software defined applications and infrastructure as utilizing hard codes and predefined networks can be dificult. This implies it needs to construct dynamic connections and the SDA's come in at this point. The trends from the previous two years will empower better comprehension on this issue. Programming defined networking is gradually however doubtlessly advancing into the enterprise. A portion of the general trends incorporate the software-defined WAN where WAN tasks are improved. Several SDN products in view of WAN were normal in the previous year as they were made to make management not so much entangled but rather more cost productive. System automation is another trend that requires an extraordinary move in networking thinking.
This implies companies need to move deliberately and circumspectly on the automation paying little heed to the years of involvement in virtualization of the computer resources (Morreale & Anderson, 2016). Open networking and the SDN are in this together as they are driven by the interest for more effectiveness and adaptability. Accordingly this has prompted traditional networking equipment's utilizing the architectural features to make it a leading enterprise. This trend has been extraordinarily adjusted by social media organizations, for example, FACEBOOK where it gives the adaptability and versatility required for operating. FACEBOOK, for example, has assets to construct their networking gear and other organizations are urged to take after this lead (Azodolmolky, 2015).
A portion of the trends inside the network consolidation subset of software-defined systems administration incorporate the network functions virtualization which has picked up force and usage in the service provider industry. This angle is meant to make networks more proficient and coordinated by supplanting the physical network hardware with virtual systems. In software defined systems administration, the use of internet protocol 6 is also trending for now which makes use of routers to mazimize packet header processing (Morreale & Anderson, 2016).
Source: Goggle Trend search, Software defined network, 2018
The figure shows the trend in software defined network from year 2016 to 2018. It can be deduced from the figure that this trend has maintained stability for the period of two years now.
Virtualization
Because of the reasons mentioned under software defined network, virtualization has turned out to be a standout amongst the most compelling trends in the IT business as more institutions rely upon it for the advantages that accompany it at each level of the business operations. All through the world, firms of each nature and kinds prefer moving towards the virtual aspect, hybrid and cloud-based systems that would lessen cost as they increase benefit, market share, IT management and change of the business processes. There have been sure changes in the area which began with the fuse of virtualization in monitoring in a way that aide in the capacity of resources, both inside and remotely. This is to enhance application and service provisioning and network uptime. This has hence been one of the real areas of focus in the current years as the same number of organizations tend to totally move towards supporting their computing and server needs in the cloud rather than the physical resources (comparison amongst virtualization and cloud computing, 2016). This trend could be advancing later on and increasing shared conviction due to reasons, for example, working on cheap commodity processors. Virtualization was constrained to the costly mainframes, as of not long ago when things changed. There have been new hypervisors which works on the current existing of up to times 86 commodity processors. They have opened up virtualization abilities to bigger groups of audience from all over the world (Mukhedkar, Vettathu and Chirammal, 2016).
Another reason would be the changes in technology. The significant thought of virtualization technology is for the lessening of reliance on physical devices. This is important as there are less expensive and bigger servers which are accessible without any limits. Combination of servers to less physical resources enables the organization to keep information in the main centers sorted out to limit hardware expenses (Mukhedkar, Vettathu and Chirammal, 2016). Impact on energy usage through the trend of green computing is very sensible and the processors move toward becoming all the more intense as more energy is required for them to run. The consolidation of servers and server virtualization prompts a decrease in energy utilization as they limit the hardware being utilized as a part of the server centre
A portion of the trends inside the server consolidation subset of virtualization incorporate the decrease of physical machines in the network room. This is the most useful aftereffect of server virtualization. Through the use of services such as amazon, more established organizations, and new ones host their computing and servers virtually in the cloud. Positive penetration of the consumer market is another trend of virtualization that aides in the download of a softwareonly phone for use on personal devices as it ends up simpler to convey and utilize. Lastly, hosting and support costs are reduced. This will undoubtedly proceed through to the future as it has turned into a reasonable normal place for improvement inside the network. The image extract from google trend below shows virtualization use has been consistent over the past two years.
Source: Goggle Trend search, Virtualization, 2018
Google trend are used to know the most searched subject. This can serve as a means of knwoing some of the latest trends in the field of IT. Searched results from the google trend are depicted above in each sections,
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