Enabling Work-From-Anywhere The way employees work has changed dramatically in the past year as the world has had to quickly adopt work-from-home technologies for the sake of user productivity and business operations. While this has given employees the freedom to access data from practically anywhere, it also brings a host of challenges when it comes to mitigating business risk. These issues will be a central theme during the ONUG Fall 2020 Virtual Conference, which is why we are pleased to be an Innovator Sponsor this…
Edge continues to be a large focus for IT Professionals worldwide. As the world adjusts to a new normal, data is being consumed at an ever-increasing rate with Online Meetings, Video Presentations and SaaS software and services dominating knowledge workers’ days. The high cost of equipment and leased lines are prohibitive to IT budgets. Keeping up with the needs of a branch office in 2020 is difficult, and more importantly expensive, often forcing difficult decisions on everyday needs. SD-WAN is quickly becoming the standard deployment…
Kubernetes enables you to establish automation, creating a culture of automating wherever possible. When clients talk to me about their cloud native goals, resiliency, scale, and performance are top of mind. Their main goal, however, is speed. The client’s customers are demanding and constantly evolving their tastes and preferences. Every day, sophisticated customers expect new features, customizations, and privacy that force development teams to react with increasing velocity. The best transformation comes from within As one of the oldest technology companies, IBM has a company culture that…
The year 2020 has firmly established one thing about how people work—remote work is here to stay, and companies will need to enable remote employees as a norm and not an exception. The year has had a profound impact, starting with business continuity plans in the early days of the global pandemic but evolving to fundamental rethinking at many enterprises of the way business is conducted. Social distancing guidelines have created a decentralized, remote work force and judging by data from a recent Gallup poll…
As a society, we’ve been forced seemingly overnight into a new work environment with offices closing (and many companies permanently downsizing office space) and remote work seeming more and more like it’s here to stay. The new normal is sure to be more digital, and enterprises are moving quickly to adapt to these changes by enabling remote work and further accelerating the migration to the cloud. Unfortunately, these rapid changes have also opened up new avenues for attackers to exploit. If companies are to remain…
Observability and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) were both borne out of best operations practices at hyperscale companies in the past decade and quickly spread through the DevOps and Cloud-Native communities. Today, they are also being adopted by some large enterprise moving to the cloud, something that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated along with expanded Work from Home (WFH). Observability positions itself as a superset of past monitoring practices. Where legacy monitoring monitors the health of a system, observability is about the care architects and developers…
In its simplest terms, API (Application Programming Interface) defines the methods that can be used to interact with a particular system, the data and format the system requires for each method, and the expected output for each method. In the world of enterprise software, APIs are the intermediaries that allow two pieces of software to talk to each other. Similarly, in the world of Networking, APIs provide an efficient and abstracted interface into a complex system that can be used by other systems to build…
In less than one month,the global enterprise cloud community will convene for a 100% digital live ONUG Fall. Taking place October 14-15, the community will focus on the alignment of business and digital strategy for value creation via building and running of secure digital enterprises. Not only will digital transformation underpinning technologies and approaches be explored, but models to align IT organization, skills and culture to enable digital success will be discussed. The unprecedented global pandemic has fundamentally changed personal and consumer behavior, work environments,…
You may not immediately recognize the term “cloud governance,” but if you’re working in the cloud, you’re probably already implementing it. You might be a startup that needs to prevent users from creating admin accounts, or a big organization staying compliant with standards such as HIPAA or NIST. Maybe you limit cloud use to avoid cloud bills with a scary number of zeros. Whatever your use case, working in the cloud requires some degree of governance around user access, budgets, and compliance. And if you’re…
ONUG Working Groups “amplify voice to the vendor community,” said moderator Nick Lippis. ONUG currently has six working groups with a total of 373 volunteers that address top challenges in tech. Working groups serve as a vehicle for generating industry change. They include a diverse group of ONUG community members, including IT professionals, larger enterprise cloud consumers, vendors, service providers, and solutions integrators. A recent ONUG webinar highlighted four of these working groups. Over the next month, we’ll highlight each group, describing their objective, current…
