ONUG Working Groups: The Orchestration and Automation Working Group

ONUG recently hosted a webinar to highlight the progress of our Working Groups. The Orchestration and Automation (O&A) Working Group was the third to present what they’ve been working on, and what their goals are for the future. Group Co-Chairs Brian Silverman of McKesson, Michael Haugh of Gluware, and David Hegenbarth of Pliant led the discussion. You can watch the entire webinar here, or keep reading for a summary of the O&A Working Group’s objectives, priorities, and future plans.  The group’s first whitepaper was a…

ONUG Working Groups: The AIOPS and Observability Working Group

ONUG’s Working Groups are having a great impact on the tech industry in numerous ways. The AiOPS and Observability Working Group is composed of core members Tim Van Herck of VMware, Russ Currie of Netscout, and Ted Turner of Kentik. ONUG recently produced a webinar to review the progress each of the working groups has made, the following summarizes some of the main activities of this working group.   Main Objectives Van Herck reviewed the group’s main objective, which is to leverage ML/AI to help businesses…

How Netskope NewEdge Takes SD-WAN to the Next Level

With Gartner releasing its latest Magic Quadrant for WAN Edge Infrastructure earlier this month, it seemed an appropriate time to explore the intersection of SD-WAN and SASE. Both of these technological approaches hold great promise and are large, billion-dollar markets, sharing the common goal of connecting users to the data and applications critical to doing their job. The two technologies demonstrate the increasing overlap and tightening linkage between networking and security investments.  Leveraging the concept of a virtualized network overlay to connect branch offices, SD-WAN…

ONUG Fall – It’s a Wrap

For those of you who joined us for ONUG Fall – Thank You! If you were not able to join us, I hope to see you at a future ONUG event, and be sure to check out the videos and presentations on our ONUG Fall archive site. ONUG Fall was more than three times the size of our program last year. The Community included thousands of Global 2000 IT executives and practitioners, from nearly 100 countries, and more than 1,200 unique companies including Bank of…

The Data Migration Gap

While organizations are benefiting from the performance, flexibility, and cost savings offered by the cloud, many enterprises have struggled with their data migration initiatives. Cloud data migration can be fraught with business risks including disruption of critical business operations, risk of data loss, and overall project complexities that often result in cost overruns or failed initiatives. According to Gartner, “Through 2022, more than 50% of data migration initiatives will exceed their budget and timeline—and potentially harm the business—because of flawed strategy and execution.” These issues…

Five Cloud Challenges For DDI And How To Beat Them

As organizations look to innovate faster, they turn to hybrid and multi-cloud strategies that require unique cloud DNS capabilities to bolster DevOps teams.  This cloud-first transition has splintered the network visibility and control that NetOps has fought to attain. Subsequently, IP conflicts arise due to overlapping IP space. This results in outages to critical services and applications. Why does NetOps feel like cloud is happening without them? Why are they struggling to manage the cloud like another data center? This post will explore the five…

Creating Digital Transformation Through Network Automation

Enterprises are racing to adopt EVPN-VXLAN to accommodate the networking demands of businesses in transition. As many shift from legacy monolithic architectures to modern application environments, EVPN has become the standard for facilitating traffic between domains and bridging networking needs among campus, branch, cloud, and data center. This enables old and new applications to run side-by-side, seamlessly, with built-in flexibility to scale as enterprise needs grow. The fact is that the application economy has forever-changed the foundation of business operations. Now the network is the…

Virtual Routing on the Edge: How to Speed-up and Secure Connections to Cloud Services

There are multiple factors to consider when deploying network connectivity to support hybrid and multicloud environments. Security, scalability, and performance are chief among those. As businesses adopt more services and connect to more public clouds, management complexity and overhead increases, potentially impacting costs and delaying IT projects. Because of the pervasiveness of internet connectivity, traditionally VPN tunnels have been used to connect workloads in disparate CSP regions. However, managing VPN tunnels can be painful, and they can limit throughput and reduce performance due to unpredictable…

Thought Leader Sponsor Riverbed and Customer ERM Delivering Keynote on Work-From-Anywhere at ONUG Fall 2020

In 2020, organizations needed to prioritize technology investments due to the unforeseen challenges of the global pandemic. Cloud adoption and digitization had already been growing exponentially for several years, but the need to have a significant number of employees shift to work-from-home put IT plans into overdrive. Forward-thinking organizations needed to move faster with investments to ensure business growth, with a focus on three key strategic priorities: accelerate cloud initiatives and digital transformation; enable work-from-anywhere models; and strengthen operational resilience.   Business and IT leaders are…

Why There’s No Security in Database Security

Until recently, to get their security compliance “checkbox” most companies only had to manage a handful of on-premise database types, typically with native logging or database activity monitoring (DAM) tools. To facilitate business innovation and growth, companies today have been compelled to add dozens of new database types, each with a different structure and management rules.  Technology has driven a database activity explosion for most enterprises, making traditional agent-based data logging, monitoring, and auditing far too difficult and expensive to be practical. In addition, GDPR,…