AI Announcement – Inaugural AI Networking Summit to Take Place in Dallas, May 15-16

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ONUG Announces Inaugural AI Networking Summit Unleashing the Power of AI in Enterprise Networking (Boston, MA) January 25, 2024 – ONUG, a leading organization dedicated to advancing the future of digital transformation, is excited to unveil the first-ever AI Networking Summit. This groundbreaking conference and exhibition will delve into the realm of AI-powered networking, exploring its transformative potential in enterprise operations, security, and networking across various industries globally. The AI Networking Summit is scheduled to take place at Union Station in Dallas on…

ONUG IT Infrastructure Simplification Initiative

ONUG IT Infrastructure Simplification Initiative Enabling Trusted Infrastructure for Business Value Creation Nick Lippis recently blogged about The IT Industry’s New Era of Simplification. Here I reflect on how the industry reached this inflection point and introduce a new ONUG Collaborative initiative focused on helping enterprise IT professionals overcome the numerous operational challenges that arise in today’s highly complex IT environments. High Cost of Complexity in the Cloud Era Amazon’s launch of AWS in 2006 initiated a wave of unprecedented technological innovation and disruption that…

The Beautiful Art of Listening

“Listen to me!” “Pay attention to what I’m saying!” These are not uncommon things to hear in a relationship, particularly ones that are in stress. My ex-wife used to say I didn’t listen to her…or something like that. There’s a lesson, yes, right there. We live in an extraordinary time where platforms abound from which we can be heard, but is anyone really listening? While preparing for ONUG Fall 2022, I had the privilege of recording promotional video snippets for many of ONUG’s supplier partners….

Days Away from ONUG Fall

We are just a few days away from gathering for ONUG Fall 2022, at Center415 located at 415 5th Avenue (between 37th & 38th Streets) in Manhattan; hosted by Daniel Conroy, Raytheon Technologies Corp VP, Enterprise Infrastructure Services. The theme of ONUG Fall is Enterprise Computing Is Multi-Cloud Computing. There will be plenty of lessons learned, best practices, training, and most of all, a message to the ONUG Community that this is the time to pause and consider how we want the multi-cloud era to…

Top 5 Sessions at ONUG Fall We Can’t Wait to See

October can’t get here fast enough. ONUG Fall 2022 kicks off on the 19th and promises to bring a ton of actionable content focused on this event’s theme: building secure, observable, and automated enterprise multi-cloud infrastructures. For two days, the Enterprise Cloud Community will gather in NYC to tackle big challenges and bigger solutions for cost-effective and secure multi-cloud architectures. This includes strategic and tactical ways to operationalize DevSecOps in the enterprise. But while we think all of the speakers and panels in the lineup…

Gluware Network RPA to Take the Stage at ONUG Spring 2022 – The Future of the Network is Hyperautomation

Today kicks off the first day of ONUG Spring 2022, the premier biannual event for the ONUG Community. At this year’s conference, the enterprise cloud community will convene to discuss ongoing challenges and the application of solutions for some of the most pressing issues hybrid and multi-cloud enterprises face. As a co-founder of ONUG, I’ve seen first-hand how these events can be used to bring the community together, collaboratively defining requirements as they evolve for the enterprise tech industry. I’m excited to be onsite at…

Multi-cloud Is Enterprise Computing

Enterprise computing is entering its fourth evolution. The large enterprise market has adopted mainframe, client-server, internet and now multicloud computing. And just like the previous computing cycles, multi-cloud is driven by business unit developers. That is, developers use the best tools available to write applications that create business value. They are not wed to any one cloud service provider (CSP), as they will switch development to the CSP that offers them the best application development tools. But as these decentralized decisions go unchecked, cost and…

You Know It Works Because You Saw it at ONUG

Helping Cloud Professionals understand the building blocks needed to construct multi-cloud infrastructure There is a massive on-prem infrastructure build about to take place in the mid to large enterprise as evident in the $600B+ 2021 Venture Capital start-up investment bonanza. Let me explain.    Application developer requirements are forcing infrastructure teams to build and run multi-cloud infrastructure. That is, application developers have allegiance to cloud service provider (CSP) tools and not necessarily CSP brands. A software engineer will write an application in any CSP or private…

Discover your Cloud Security Posture Maturity Level

ONUG Cloud Native Security Working Group Blog Series Introduction Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) is currently one of the fastest growing areas within the field of cloud security; most security vendors are now offering or developing CSPM capabilities. However, enterprises are still trying to build the most effective CSPM program to fit their environment. In many cases, it’s unclear where to start and what the end goal is for the CSPM effort.  To help simplify this process, this post will share guiding principles for implementing…

ONUG Collaborative Update – February, 2022

The first quarter of 2022 has been incredibly busy and exciting for the ONUG Collaborative. As ONUG rallies around the multi-cloud attributes of Connect, Secure, Observe and Automate, the Collaborative Working Groups have gained improved focus on how to deliver value to our members. There are several initiatives worth highlighting: The Cloud Security Notification Framework (CSNF) is the open source initiative being led by ONUG, bringing order to chaos in cloud security messaging. The ACG Working Group is getting ready to present the MVP iteration…