Is the Firewall dead?
Is the Firewall dead? Depends on what you define as alive and well which can look quite different based on many factors, but let's not get lost in semantics, and instead consider common reoccurring attempts at transformation and maturity around adoption and progression. Full disclosure, these are my personal opinions, views, etc. If your platform cannot support what most folks refer to as the infrastructure of yesterday (which is a large majority of organizations today) mixing up public and private data centers with a range of workload types such as virtual machines, and microservices. That's a problem. Today, we see an accelerated adoption for Serverless Kubernetes, and with Organizations looking to Infrastructure as Code deployment as the end all be all to automating the entire puzzle and not just a piece here and there. Many of us are not yet there or even close, but it's coming. Not as quickly as I had imagined a few years ago, but nonetheless, it's prevalent toda...