Assure and secure your edge applications with dynamic event-driven performance

Accedian, Solace and MobiledgeX accelerate delivery on digital transformation priorities

Those of us who started our careers as Control Systems engineers and who practiced in industrial control and automation systems and robotics can see some similarities with the current demands for digital transformation initiatives. We learned about the world of distributed control, the difference between synchronous and asynchronous systems, input/output (I/O) such as sensors, networking, and APIs of distributed processing. 

Any business problem that looks to technology for answers in the modern era falls under digital transformation. What makes digital transformation succeed or fail to meet the intended business outcomes is certainly not due to technology investment as digital transformation budgets are growing significantly.  

However, realizing value from digital transformation projects is arguably dependent on CIOs thinking differently about how to measure and assure their applications and hybrid IT environments. Applications have to be developed, published, and supported on a global scale and traverse cross-orchestrated, cross-domain federated networks. Application delivery is more complex than ever, with distributed cloud processing (e.g. core, edge, access), the networks that connect these clouds, and the rapidly emerging Internet of Things (IoT) markets. 

Reducing digital transformation risk depends on making evidence-based decisions as opposed to haphazardly and blindly throwing resources at application performance degradations. Monitoring, measuring, proving, and thereby assuring applications are performing will give back control to the CIO.

Managing events and SLAs across IoT and 5G networks

IoT and 5G mobile networks, as well as microservice application development, are driving the need for networks and IT infrastructure to be event-driven and dynamic. Event handlers, or “brokers”, take in events from various systems that are often autonomous, and are sent or “published” to consumers or “subscribers”.

The challenge is, however, until recently, there has not been high performance, guaranteed classes-of-service around event handling. Publishing events across a network has been best-effort as public cloud providers that house the applications that publish and subscribe to these events do not offer SLAs from end-to-end, from the data center to the end customer or subscriber.

This may not be a concern when measuring whether a sprinkler system turns on 1 or 10 seconds later, but it becomes the difference between life and death in autonomous transportation scenarios. This can shift millions of dollars of risk to a party unjustifiably if there is no way to assure that the event you wanted to be published went to the subscriber you wanted when you wanted it to. 

Enterprise edge computing requires full visibility into application delivery and security

Fortunately, this is changing with the advent of edge cloud computing from leading innovative firms like MobiledgeX and their strategic partners, us, Accedian, and Solace. MobiledgeX is quickly becoming the standard for the telco edge cloud environment. They certify the applications that will be delivered from a 4G/LTE and 5G edge compute availability zone.

Solace provides the event handling brokers that publish events to subscribers and Accedian provides the assurance measurements of network performance and application protocol transaction metrics.

Accedian, Solace, and MobiledgeX are partnering to address two primary problems that global enterprise CIOs are facing:

1. The ability to observe, measure and scale the best applications to drive financial and operational outcomes across cloud and telecom networks. This visibility and insight mean CIOs can monitor cloud providers and telecom networks, that don’t deliver applications under the agreed SLA requirements.
2. Visibility and control to determine which applications are delivering on financial profitability and operational metrics, enabling CIOs to reinvest and expand the best performing applications.

Finally, not only do applications need to meet high performance expectations, for emerging 5G applications that will enable new experiences and business models. It will be essential that there is a forensically auditable trail of the application delivery protocol transactions.

This is necessary to attest and verify that the delivery and exchange of high-value application data took place between the intended parties in industries such as insurance, reinsurance, aerospace, transportation, and telecom supply chain stakeholders, as well as government, risk and compliance organizations.

Together, these partners are making it possible for enterprises to accelerate event-driven, dynamic architectures that support strategic initiatives to drive innovation and to serve customers better. Enterprise CIOs and CFOs that want to lead in a future of connected and secure infrastructure that deliver their intended financial outcomes now have an transformative new way to move forward. 

Learn more about the Accedian, Solace, and MobiledgeX partnership to deliver assured performance for next-generation 5G and IoT Services.