Hi ala,

While cloud teams advance delivery speed each year, many branch environments remain mired in sluggish, outdated practices. Sites operate independently, changes require tickets, and outages are unexpected. IDC analyst Brandon Butler and chief evangelist at Infoblox, Cricket Liu explore what happens when cloud operating principles transform branch environments: a unified global control plane, centralized governance, precise blast-radius constraints and trusted telemetry.

One practical scenario: decoupling DNS/DHCP from AD-centric and hub-centric dependencies, modernizing speed, resilience and security without a disruptive overhaul, backed by NIST SP 800-81r3 guidance.

Designed for director/vice president leaders focused on transformation results, and executives accountable for outcomes, at a moment when frontier AI is compressing both the modernization timeline and the threat landscape that infrastructure has to survive.