2021 has been a tremendous year for the ONUG Community of Global 2000 IT business leaders and sponsor members. In the ONUG Collaborative, Oracle Cloud has joined to help develop the open source Cloud Security Notification Framework’s Decorator along with Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and Google Cloud Platform under the guidance of FedEx, Cigna, Raytheon, Intuit, Adobe, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, Kaiser Permanente, etc. Cisco, Sysdig, Wiz, Concourse Labs and many others are now making the Decorator, a common data model and metadata scheme to…
ONUG Cloud Native Security Working Group Blog Series #1 Over the next several quarters, the ONUG Cloud Native Security Working Group will be publishing a set of short articles that examine different aspects of modern application security –new threats, the role of big data and machine learning in addressing those threats, how security interacts with the CI/CD development process, and more. The discussion of how to protect today’s applications begins with understanding how applications are built. And understanding modern application architectures requires us to appreciate…
As an old IT Ops person, it’s easy to look back at a career full of important, necessary tasks. Stuff needed to get done. People needed to do them. I was one of those people. It was a sobering day when I came to realize that “necessary” didn’t really mean valuable from a business perspective. As it turns out, configuring servers, networks, storage systems and firewalls was NOT our business…EVER! Who knew? Now every IT executive, from Engineering to DevXXXOps knows this truth. All of…
ONUG Cloud Native Security Working Group Blog Series #2 “For those of you with an interest in data-driven DevSecOps, the ONUG Cloud Native Security Working Group is kicking off a deeper-dive article series on the role of data in modern applications, discussing some best practices for translating an application’s operational data “exhaust” into deep insights and actionable feedback. The first piece in this series introduces the three pillars of the data-driven approach: collecting data across the breadth of the distributed infrastructure, ensuring data inputs also…
As more companies move to a multi-cloud environment, their IT departments become inundated with security notifications. Trying to make sense of these statuses can be challenging as each cloud provider has its own notification formats. Adding one provider doesn’t mean doubling the notifications; the data grows exponentially until enterprises reach the “wall of worry.” Large enterprises have constructed security infrastructures to process the volume of events being transmitted. However, they require additional staffing to interpret and process the data sent from each provider. The ongoing…
It’s just been a few weeks since ONUG Spring gathered over 3,000 Global 2000 IT community members in the largest spring meeting to date. It was our third live virtual event, and we’ve all become pros adapting to the new technology. You can see it in how speakers, sponsors and community members are engaged, having become comfortable with the virtual ONUG platform. A few stats: nearly 80 countries and 1,000 unique companies, including Bank of America, Bank of NY, Wells Fargo, State Farm, FedEx,…
Enterprise cloud community offers sneak peek of ONUG Fall 2021 BOSTON – May 24, 2021 – ONUG, an open enterprise cloud community of Global 2000 IT business leaders, announced the completion of its Spring 2021 event. ONUG Spring hosted over 3,000 attendees digitally, including Global 2000 IT executives and practitioners from nearly 100 countries as well as some of the largest cloud consumers in the enterprise space, such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, FedEx, Cigna, Fidelity Investmentsand Citibank. Community members shared valuable knowledge around…
Blog #1 in a Series on APIs from the ONUG O&A Working Group We have all clamored for programmatic control and more intelligence in our networks and applications for years. We want to automate high-value repeatable tasks to eliminate toil in our programming world. In response, software developers released Application Programming Interfaces or APIs, essentially, more code to control their original code or application. The good news is we have programmatic control for automation! The bad news is there are almost as many ways to go about…
Thanks to the open ONUG Community of digital architects and designers, we made a digital pivot last year and kept the community together at a time when we needed each other most. We continued our collaboration and expanded the community by a factor of four. ONUG Spring used to be the smaller version of ONUG Fall; not anymore. ONUG is now in sequential growth mode with every conference/trade show getting larger than the one before. We are more productive and engaged than we’ve ever been…
The consensus among ONUG Fall 2020 attendees was that the global health crisis accelerated digital transformation, but the transformation was not equal across the enterprise. Employees began to work from home, and businesses moved more applications to the cloud for worldwide accessibility. What didn’t change were the tools to help with that transformation. Now, a year later what needs to happen to operationalize a cloud or hybrid environment? IT was left trying to support cloud-based implementations with on-premise tools, most of which did not effectively…
