The digital business landscape was already changing rapidly before the COVID-19 crisis. The emergence of the pandemic, however, has forced companies to shift into high gear. Now more than ever, having the right people, processes and technology are critical to success. An impressive panel of top female executives shared how they are meeting these new challenges at the recent ONUG Digital Live event. Paola Saibene of Quartus Fact moderated the discussion with Shannon Lietz of Intuit and Abby Kearns of Puppet. Watch their discussion here,…
“Cloud is the greatest transformation of all time,” said Daniel Conroy, VP and CTO at Raytheon Technologies. The journey to the cloud helps organizations increase productivity, get digital products to market faster and improve customer experiences. However, it also creates an environment where security and compliance have a hard time keeping up, often slowing down the process. How can we have all the benefits and meet the challenges? That’s one of the topics a collaborative of various organizations got together to discuss. Their first project…
While digital transformation is not a new concept, the COVID-19 crisis has forced it to “take on a new level of importance,” said Daniel Lawson of Verizon, one of the participants in a midday keynote at ONUG’s Spring conference, ONUG Digital Live (ODL). Lawson spoke with Brian Silverman of McKesson about each of their experiences in this changing environment, emphasizing the need to pivot and be able to react. “Digital transformation used to be about personalization, being flexible, and able to react to new demand…
Collaboration yields results. At the ONUG Digital Live event this past spring, leading contributors to the ONUG Security Working Group presented a reference architecture for container security, which was then followed by an open reference solution that matched the outlined architecture. Years of work and input from industry leaders yielded a solution that ensures confidentiality, integrity and availability for container-based workloads. Forrest Bennett of FedEx served as moderator, while Bob Wysocki and Anmol Kulkarni of Microland, Michael Clark of Renaissance Technology, and Adam Hughes of…
Automation in the Age of the Remote Workforce: Terracon and Gluware Show the Way Throughout the years at ONUG, Gluware has consistently shown how it partners with customers. It is unique in that its customers advocate for Gluware in public, which is a difficult internal process to undergo. But time and time again, Gluware’s customers do. They do it because they are delighted with the outcome, because Gluware delivers what it promises. Jamie Hughes, Infrastructure Architect at Terracon, delivered a keynote during ONUG Digital Live this…
The unprecedented global pandemic has fundamentally changed behavior. Where we go, the products we consume, how we consume them, the supply chains that deliver them and the way we work and interact with each other has all been altered. All the digital transformation best practices ONUG Members have adopted and espoused over the years, have entered into hyper-acceleration mode. ONUG member corporations are fundamentally changing to address and service the needs of digital consumers, partners and suppliers. During this process, skill sets, technologies, processes, budgets,…
Enterprise IT organizations, following the lead of hyperscale service providers, are adopting virtualization and automation technologies in order to scale infrastructure effectively. But no matter how much you automate and virtualize your systems, you rely on the physical network infrastructure that underpins it all to remain resilient. While the DevOps philosophy drives the efficient management of the logical layer, the hardware required to run it remains as important as ever. And so the network engineer’s role in keeping those physical devices operational at all times…
What best practices for agile infrastructure should you implement? Industry leaders gathered to discuss this topic at last Fall’s ONUG conference. Chris Swan of DXC Technology moderated a discussion with David McKay of InfluxData, Anne Currie of Container Solutions and Ben Hall of Katacoda. Below are their top five recommendations for enterprises today. Gather more insights by viewing their entire discussion here. Stay Up-to-Date Technology is changing rapidly, especially DevOps. Swan asked each participant for tips on how they stay up-to-date with the latest trends….
Upon a first glance you may not realize the difference between cloud networking and networking for the cloud. After all, are these not the same thing, you may ask? As you will learn here, even though they carry a degree of similarity, there are still distinct differences between these two concepts. We all know that for many organizations the cloud is not a question of “if”, but rather “when” and “how” (and of course “how much” ☺). The cloud-fist or even cloud-only strategies have become…
Using Infrastructure as Code(IaC for short) is the norm in the Cloud. CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, Serverless Framework, ARM… the options are endless! And they are so many just because IaC makes total sense! It allows Architects and DevOps engineers to version the application infrastructure as much as the developers are already versioning the code. So any bad change, no matter if on the application code or infrastructure, can be easily inspected or, even better, rolled back. For the rest of this article, let’s use CloudFormation…
