The invasion of cloud services to enterprise networks is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, continuing the trend of putting operational pressure on network teams to keep pace with the rate of change. Enterprises continue to face the daunting task of how to seamlessly integrate heterogeneous networks that span private infrastructure and public cloud services. Disparate devices, complex topologies, and snowflake application requirements make it challenging to find operational efficiencies due to the complex nature of existing implementations, lack of standardized interfaces, and diverse sets of…
We’re constantly told to “Shift Left” and that Secure DevOps is the only way to have confidence in your cloud native applications. But speaking to end-users and industry colleagues, it’s clear that there are some major challenges in adopting Secure DevOps. If we read our history books, we know that DevOps wasn’t successfully adopted by buying tools, and a true cultural movement towards DevOps wasn’t established by having a small dedicated team of DevOps specialists. I’m sure many of us have read the Phoenix Project…
There’s a lot of talk about the ‘edge’ these days—edge compute, edge cloud, near edge, far edge, the list goes on. We see these as just different approaches to ensure that enterprise employees have ‘always-on’ access to the data, content, and applications they need to do their jobs—regardless of their physical location. These edge approaches also deliver a higher-quality customer experience and meet application specific latency and bandwidth needs. For over a decade, enterprises accomplished this task by moving many applications into public, private, and…
Outsourcing IT infrastructure to public cloud is on the rise for Financial Service Institutions (FSI) and in most cases, enterprises will work with the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) of their choice to plan and manage workloads and software services. A lot of the early cloud strategy and decision-making can be influenced by what that initial CSP prescribes. Similarly, the CSP can dictate what products customers can consume within an established scope. FSIs are relying more heavily on CSPs. The role the CSP plays in supporting…
Dual appointments bring security innovation and financial enterprise infrastructure expertise to ONUG NEW YORK – August 4, 2021 – ONUG, the voice of the Global 2000, today announced the appointment of Shannon Lietz, vice president of Vulnerability Labs at Adobe, to the ONUG board as co-chair alongside Nick Lippis and Ernest Leffner, co-founders of ONUG. Further, Yesim Akdeniz, managing director of architecture, technology and engineering at Citigroup, is being appointed to the ONUG board. In addition to her new role as co-chair, Lietz will also…
First, I want to thank all of our great ONUG Sponsors for being a part of and supporting our growing community of IT professionals and increasingly open source developers. ONUG Sponsors continued to support the community as we all navigated the pandemic. They helped keep the community together during challenging times, and we thank them for this support. The one question I always get from potential and existing sponsors is “when are you going back to in-person.” For ONUG Fall, my response is quick: the…
Multicloud strategies are the de-facto standard across enterprise IT these days, as companies depend on numerous cloud vendors and software-as-as service (SaaS) solutions. Indeed, research firm IDC predicts that more than 90% of companies will depend on multicloud infrastructures by 2022, as the COVID-19 pandemic drove home the urgent need for business agility. Cloud was also supposed to simplify life in IT—speed, flexibility, scalability. And in many ways, cloud does provide those benefits. But the growing mix of public and private clouds and SaaS applications…
Today’s enterprise edge is incredibly complex. As global users work from anywhere, their devices create tremendous amounts of data, originating from wireless LANs, LAN switches, routers, firewalls, and countless cloud and SaaS applications. Analyzing this data and extracting meaningful, actionable insights creates a major challenge for maintaining business continuity across distributed workforces. Only by harnessing the power of correlation and enterprise Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) can users rapidly remediate and heal their networks. A Step-by-step Approach to Employing AIOps How do you launch…
Blog #2 in a Series on APIs from the ONUG O&A Working Group Part One of this blog series on APIs for network automation set the foundation for the importance of using APIs (application programming interfaces) for network and end-to-end process automation. Here in Part Two, we are going to look at more of the implementation details and points to consider when first looking to leverage API calls for automation. The digital transformation movement is pushing enterprise IT to deliver agility, scalability and security for…
The challenges of working from home and the subsequent return to work will cause organizations to reevaluate how they look at networks for enterprise workloads and hybrid workplaces. The range of at-home networks and devices now engaged in critical business operations has grown by an order of magnitude and there might be little change as more employees opt to work a hybrid schedule as offices reopen. With more diverse and dispersed operations, IT decision-making processes—and IT teams, themselves— will need to evolve to meet new…
