The AI infrastructure market just crossed a threshold. With GPU-backed debt now underwritten at scale, the constraint on AI compute growth is no longer capital — it is creditworthy enterprise demand. Analysts project AI debt financing will become a multi-trillion-dollar credit market by the end of the decade, second only to U.S. mortgages. Every dollar of that financing rests on one thing: enterprises willing to sign multi-year compute commitments. Those enterprises are the ONUG Community. For 15 years, ONUG has been where enterprise IT leaders…
The AI conversation has moved fast—but for most network and security engineers, the real work is just beginning. The AI Networking Summit in Frisco | Dallas isn’t about abstract ideas or distant futures. It’s about what happens when AI hits production environments, and what that actually means for the people responsible for keeping systems running, secure, and performant. Over the past two years, the Summit has grown rapidly—attendance alone has increased by nearly 90% — and that growth reflects something important: infrastructure teams are realizing that AI…
The work of enterprise IT operations to keep applications and services resilient and available has not fundamentally changed in the past 20 years. The escalation chains, the L1 teams, the bridge calls, the offshore outsourcing, all of it was built on a simple premise: when your tools and automation hit their limits, you throw people at the problem. It was the only option available until now. For decades, the work that overwhelmed IT operations wasn’t technically complex; it was relentless and context-dependent. Triaging ambiguous alerts,…
Every few years, the enterprise technology industry gets consumed by a binary debate that turns out to be the wrong debate. Build vs. buy in AI infrastructure is this generation’s version. Right now, the strong headwinds are blowing clearly in one direction — but smart infrastructure leaders know the wind always shifts. The job is not to pick a side. The job is to build an organization that wins no matter which way it blows. The Current Gravity: Why Buy Is Winning Be honest about…
We are at an inflection point. Enterprises are trapped between two uncomfortable realities: public AI services are convenient but risky, while private infrastructure is expensive and complex. But that equation is changing. This tension is already reshaping enterprise IT strategy—and over the next few years, it will trigger a fundamental restructuring of how organizations deploy artificial intelligence. The Public AI Problem: Control is the New Currency Today’s enterprises are forced into a precarious position with cloud-based AI services like Gemini, Claude, xAI, and OpenAI. These…
Enterprise networking is in the middle of a major transition. For decades, most data center networks were built as vertically integrated stacks, where hardware and network software were tightly coupled to a single vendor ecosystem. That model is increasingly misaligned with today’s reality: hybrid infrastructure, faster scaling cycles, and the need to automate operations end-to-end. This is why disaggregation has become a strategic direction for enterprise infrastructure teams. By decoupling the network operating system (NOS) from the underlying switching hardware, organizations gain flexibility in procurement,…
Somewhere in every networking team, someone has already said: “We should really look at SONiC.” …and someone else has replied: “We’re not a hyperscaler. This is not for us.” If that sounds familiar, this post is for you. I’ll walk through five common myths about SONiC and open-source networking — and how to approach them without betting the business. Myth 1: “Open-source NOS is only for hyperscalers.” The belief SONiC is a Microsoft thing. Hyperscalers can afford to experiment; enterprises can’t. Reality SONiC has quietly become the…
When you think of SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud), it’s often associated with hyperscalers—the giants in tech like Google and Microsoft that demand unparalleled scalability and customization in their network infrastructure. But what if I told you that SONiC is no longer just for hyperscalers? What if I told you that enterprises—yes, Fortune 500 companies, mid-sized businesses, even finance and telecom industries—are now tapping into the power of SONiC to transform their networks? Flexibility Through Choices One of SONiC’s strongest suits is…
How the Fall Summit Set the Stage for Building the AI-Native Enterprise Network Fabric in 2026 At the Fall 2025 AI Networking Summit in New York, one theme dominated every conversation: enterprises are experimenting with AI, but they’re not yet ready to operationalize it. Business units are running pilots, copilots, and proofs-of-concept, but IT and infrastructure teams are still figuring out how to scale, secure, and support them. That disconnect — between AI enthusiasm and AI readiness — is now the industry’s biggest challenge. And…
Wide Area Network (WAN) circuit costs consistently rank among the top ten line items in most enterprise IT budgets. Yet despite representing such a significant expenditure, WAN procurement remains one of the least automated areas in enterprise infrastructure management. The process is still dominated by manual RFPs, spreadsheets, vendor negotiations, and contract reviews—activities that consume months of staff time, introduce opacity, and lock organizations into outdated pricing models. In an era where compute and storage can be provisioned in minutes through cloud platforms, the procurement…
