Introduction A multi-cloud or hybrid strategy gives enterprises the freedom to use the best possible cloud native services for revenue generating workloads. Many organizations are utilizing multi-cloud deployment use cases like Increased reliability Improved security Cloud bursting Disaster recovery Vendor neutral solution Utilizing differentiated solutions from providers The cloud vendors provide common solutions like compute, storage and networking solutions with cost efficiencies. Organisations today consume multi-cloud solutions for enterprise IT services like email, Salesforce, PaaS from Microsoft etc. for applications. Study from Flexera shows most…
Introduction Modern applications are composed of individual microservices that need to run in one or more locations (cloud regions or edges). On the one hand the loading at each of these microservices can vary with seasonality and other external events that influence the workloads. On the other hand, it is assumed that there is sufficient capacity to handle the load arriving at each of these locations. The platform team can only create static load balancing profiles based on the offerings from various cloud providers resulting…
The business environment over the last few years has had a significant impact on cloud adoption and spending. As companies accelerated their network builds to accommodate hybrid and remote workers, they quickly rolled out new cloud services and solutions. Gartner originally predicted that in 2023 worldwide public cloud spending will grow 20.7% to total $591.8 billion, up from $490.3 billion in 2022 and worldwide spending on IT would grow 5.1% in 2023. As recently as last month, Gartner slashed those IT estimates and is forecasting…
ONUG’s Co-Founder and Co-Chair Nick Lippis, in his January 2023 blog post, stated directly that “the IT Spend Party is over”. 2023 will usher in a period of flat spending and a desire to optimize and contain IT and cloud costs while still scaling infrastructures to meet business needs. Enterprises will undergo optimization exercises to utilize the capital investments that were made over the past three years of rapid growth. Balancing cloud scalability and security with cost containment requires careful planning and management along with…
Using policy as code as the core of managing risk and automation was the topic at one session at the ONUG Fall 2022 Session. Titled Managing Risk and Automation with Policy as Code, the panel included: Don Duet (Chairman & Co-Founder, Concourse Labs) Ruoh-Yann Huang (SVP, Global Head of Network Automation and Telemetry, Bank of America) James Walker (Managing Director, Network Services, Bank of America) Yesim Akdeniz (Managing Director for Network Services, Citi) Xiaobo Long (Sr. VP of Cloud Platform Security Engineering, Citi) Alexandra Shulman-Peleg…
It’s hard to escape the news of reduction in force (RIF) and cautionary forward-looking corporate performance of large tech companies in the news this quarter. But note that there is a huge distinction between enterprise tech and consumer tech. Many of the large tech companies participate in both massive markets. Amazon is an online consumer retailer and offers enterprise compute services via its AWS business unit. Microsoft sells gaming and other consumer productivity software as well as enterprise compute services via Azure. Google is mostly…
We say these things quite often, “tip of the iceberg” or “on the surface…”. I love a good metaphor. And while I’m not prone to hyperbole, metaphors are the greatest linguistic invention in the history of everything ever created in the universe. Ignoring that important reality, and with all due respect to similes and analogies, my brain landed on the previously mentioned metaphors whilst recently pondering Policy as Code. On the surface, it feels that Policy-as-code solutions should be very straight forward. There are clear…
2022 Was a Launching Pad for the Programmable Network Cloud Ecosystem at ONUG As a community, we have so many 2022 accomplishments to be proud of. We laid the groundwork for a new multi-cloud era where infrastructure and developer teams gain greater choice and options to deliver business value creation. We focused on multi-cloud connectivity, automation and security with a special emphasis on Network and Security Operational Centers (NOCs and SOCs) automation through AI/ML. We started to define the programmable network cloud market that promises…
I like watching bad movies. I can’t help it really; I was born this way. Sometimes I’ll be sitting around with my older brothers, and we’ll talk about ridiculous movies, nonsensical movies, movies that are so stupid that they defy logic…and yet…they’re hilarious. “Did you see Tremors?” someone will ask. “Five times… at least!” is the reply. “OMG… really? Me too!” So you can see it’s a genetics issue. Nonetheless, no matter how bad the movie, there’s usually one or two redeeming moments. Maybe a…
Remember, upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ~ Alexander the Great ONUG has always been a community of enterprise technology consumers and suppliers focused on building and running the digital enterprise at scale. Over the past few years, the community has focused on providing solutions to the hardest problem in IT; that is, operationalizing multi-cloud consumption to gain the widest range of options and choices for infrastructure and developer teams as they create business value. As we progress on this journey,…
