Trigger Warning: This article contains discussions of mental health challenges, including suicide. BRIANNA: This article is difficult to write. On one hand, I’m part of an Artificial Intelligence community that’s on the cutting edge of technology, where we explore the latest advancements and trends in AI. We bring together Fortune 500 leaders across the globe to discuss AI’s incredible potential: from groundbreaking cancer treatments to enhancing cybersecurity and creating safer environments for both organizations and individuals alike. I am a firm advocate of AI for…
For years, enterprise network and security management has relied on a centralized model that’s starting to feel like a relic of a bygone era. Picture this: every networking device, every security appliance, every switch, router, and firewall diligently sending a flood of system logs, SNMP data, alerts, and threat indicators to a massive, centralized data lake. It’s a digital haystack—overflowing with terabytes of information, growing daily, and hiding the critical insights engineers need to keep the infrastructure humming and secure. When an incident strikes—say, a…
Agentic AI—intelligent systems capable of proactive, context-aware decision-making—is reshaping how corporations operate. Rather than forcing organizations to rely on rigid, feature-laden enterprise software that only fulfills a fraction of their needs, Agentic AI learns a company’s unique business logic to generate predictive, customizable workflows in real time. This shift not only enables “digital twin” simulations of corporate operations—letting leaders test new ideas or products in a virtual environment before rolling them out—but also demands a radical rethinking of enterprise compute infrastructures. To fully harness Agentic…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is sparking innovation and transforming the data center landscape. Massive buildouts are required to support each new AI model, introducing increasing scale and complexity with every iteration. Staying competitive demands innovative approaches to boost operational efficiency and manage rising costs. In this blog, we’ll explore how a Network Source of Truth (NSoT), combined with a comprehensive automation strategy, can be a cornerstone of this transformation. The scale of AI computational power, and consequently energy consumption, is expected to surge in the coming…
You can’t escape it: artificial intelligence is defining the current era of technology whether we like it or not. Although AI has been around in various forms for decades (the concept of a neural network model was first proposed in the 1940s!), the transformer model architecture, recent advent of LLMs, and significant advancements in computational hardware have armed us with AI capabilities that have never been seen before. All of a sudden, computers are capable of complicated natural language processing tasks requiring long-range context, allowing…
In the fast-evolving landscape of enterprise computing, the integration and expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure stand as pivotal elements for future growth and operational efficiency. Recently, at the AI Networking Summit hosted by ONUG in Dallas in May 2024, a poll of 901 IT and network professionals, who are part of the ONUG Community, provided a snapshot of the current state and trajectory of AI in enterprise compute infrastructure. This blog delves into the findings, revealing the aspirations, challenges, and expectations surrounding AI deployment…
The AI Networking Summit held in Dallas on May 15 and 16, 2024, hosted by FedEx, was a landmark event that brought together thought leaders, industry experts, and AI enthusiasts from around the world. This summit provided an invaluable platform for sharing insights, discussing advancements, and exploring the future of AI technologies. Here are five compelling points from the Dallas Summit that highlight why attending the upcoming AI Networking Summit in New York City on October 23 and 24, 2024, is a must for anyone…
IT Design Patterns Needed – Now More Than Ever Over the past decade, successive waves of technology innovation have resulted in complex IT infrastructure that is problematic to manage and secure. Given the myriad of challenges and the extraordinary level of complexity that IT networking, cloud and security operations professionals are grappling with today, the need for new design patterns has never been more acute. Cutting through all this complexity and converging on innovative, trusted design patterns is no mean feat, but ONUG is uniquely…
ONUG, a leading IT community focused on enterprise cloud challenges, is entering a transformative era with its rebranding to the AI Networking Summit at ONUG. This change reflects a strategic shift towards integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) across all aspects of cloud and on-premises infrastructure and its management. Here’s why this evolution is not just timely but critical. For years, ONUG has been at the forefront of addressing key enterprise cloud issues, such as connecting, securing, automating, and controlling both cloud-based and on-premises infrastructures. The evolution…
Generative AI is Accelerating AI Adoption Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly evolving and beginning to transform IT operations with expanding use cases that offer efficiency to labor-intensive network operations, particularly in Network Operations Centers (NOC) and Security Operations Centers (SOC). The recently formed ONUG Collaborative AI-Driven NOC/SOC Automation Project is exploring this evolution and its implications in this first of a series of blog posts on the topic. Over the past several years AIOps has become a buzzword that vendors use to offer the promise…
