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…
Business and industry press always tout how quickly companies are moving to the cloud. While this is true for cloud-first, start-ups, internet 1.0/2.0 companies, it is typically not the case for traditional enterprises, along with the vast number of local, state and federal government agencies and institutions. Over the past several years, ONUG Community members have voiced their concerns about moving workloads into the public cloud. To date, most community members deploy between 10 to 15% of their corporate workloads in the cloud, and those…
In its broadest sense, edge computing involves placing service provisioning, intelligence, and data closer to devices and users. With such a broad definition, it can mean edge services in an on-premise enterprise or in a cloud infrastructure. What the future holds for edge computing is a topic discussed by a recent ONUG panel. On the panel were: Ernest Lefner, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, ONUG / SM – FSO Digital Advisory, Ernst & Young, LLP Preetha Vijayakumar, VP Enterprise Network & Communications Services, FedEx Michael Parks, VP,…
Learn how to transform with confidence using zero trust Zscaler has been pleased to sponsor ONUG conferences in years past, and 2021 is no exception. This week’s ONUG Spring 2021 Virtual Conference promises to cover the key challenges we all faced and the lessons we learned during the past tumultuous year. In ONUG’s words, “We will digest the changes we experienced together and discuss the technologies and strategies critical to our digital transformation business models in 2021 and beyond.” At Zscaler, we’ve been working closely with customers on…
