“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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
A More Secure Digital Future During my long career, there has been one constant requirement I often hear, “I want to see an end-to-end view of an application.” This is the holy grail to assure great user experience, assure security and observability. Developers, IT infrastructure and operational teams struggle every day with this lack of visibility of an application’s dependency map. Gaining end-to-end visibility is hard enough when you own every device or piece of software that supports an application as in a private data…
Introduction Years after the term was coined by Stephen Paul Marsh in 1994 and popularized by John Kindervag more than a decade ago, Zero Trust has become the “new” security solution that addresses the confluence of today’s three critical factors and the emergence of what amounts to a cyber-war on businesses and governments. Zero Trust switches the focus from outward-facing defense of a network perimeter to prevention of unauthorized exfiltration of data and other exploits. This short work looks at why it has become virtually…
