Enterprise Cloud 1.0 has changed the game for top-level computing, but like everything else in the industry, things keep changing – and quickly. To keep up, enterprise customers are looking toward the next wave: the leap that could combine the disparate worlds of cloud and on-premises into Enterprise Cloud 2.0. But what does that mean, exactly? What will digital enterprise look like once it has become the new paradigm? And is it capable of bridging gaps that left Cloud 1.0 wanting? In the ONUG Fall…
Enterprises are used to the idea that the cloud is consumable. After all, cloud consumability is the characteristic that brings the chief cloud benefit: business agility. Why build and maintain your own data center space, power, equipment, etc. when you can simply click or API your way to thousands of servers? For traditional IT teams, cloud consumability has been a revelation. For digital native DevOps and SRE teams, cloud consumability is a given. The bad news is that the WAN as a whole has historically…
For today’s IT operations teams, understanding and solving issues can feel like a nonstop game of whack-a-mole. Managing a diverse, edge-powered infrastructure isn’t easy for increasingly complex, distributed enterprises. Most IT operations teams have organically accumulated multiple legacy tools as their organizations have matured, each with its own distinct interface and training requirements. This tools glut can drag down IT operations and limit their ability to gain visibility. Manual processes make the problem worse, because they make correlating data across massive amounts of data a…
Network performance, security, and scalability are factors that can redefine IT investments as a competitive advantage. The network remains the unifying feature of modern environments despite the increasingly distributed and remote nature of enterprises. The impact of the cloud is such that the dynamics of modern networks are ever-changing while enterprise environments grow more complex and chaotic. The management of these environments – the discovery, analysis, updating, and maintenance – and the ever-growing number of devices, domains, and clouds can constitute major risks to business…
For most ONUG members, your network and security infrastructure is built from “best of breed” products (aka “point solutions”). Dating back to the ‘80s, selecting, piloting, integrating, and deploying every single component of your infrastructure was the common practice. The prevailing notion was, and still is to a certain extent, that point solutions built by a specialist that focuses on a specific set of requirements and capabilities will outperform suites or platforms that address them as part of a broader solution. This common wisdom had…
Do you remember how your organization started using the cloud or why? Do you remember the meeting where it was discussed, who was assigned to lead the migration strategy, and what was in the detailed plan they produced? Of course you don’t, because it didn’t happen like that. It started with a request to IT for connecting already deployed cloud workloads into the corporate network. “How long? HOW long?” Now your organization has 50 different applications deployed in the cloud across multiple regions – and…
You may have noticed that low-code and no-code technologies are taking enterprise IT by storm. Speaking to TechTarget, Forrester analyst John Bratincevic reported that up to 75% of enterprises will make low-code technology a part of their software strategies by 2024. This explosive adoption is the result of a perfect storm of events: A dramatic rise in the awareness and availability of no-code/low-code platforms (tools that allow users to design applications through visual drag-and-drop templates without requiring programming knowledge) Enterprises are feeling the compounding effects…
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…
