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,…
A large portion of enterprise revenue is directly affected by the availability and security of IT infrastructure. This puts IT organizations under extreme pressure to ensure business continuity, accommodate growth, and help increase business value. But they struggle to solve one significant challenge: keeping operations running during economic recessions, natural disasters, or international conflicts, when physical access to sites is limited or outright prohibited. This challenge is exacerbated by an increase in distributed infrastructure, especially edge computing, which Gartner predicts will process 75% of enterprise…
If automation isn’t in your list of top three IT priorities, it should be. Many Fortune 500 organizations are recognizing the benefits automation brings to infrastructure availability and security. It keeps downtime at bay, which can cost $500k or more per hour according to Gartner. Automation also seals security gaps before a breach can occur, which IBM’s 2022 Cost of a Data Breach report shows costs an average of $4.54 million to rectify. Automation is so important now that Gartner has coined the term ‘hyperautomation’…
With another ONUG Fall in the rearview, it’s a worthwhile exercise to look back at the topics and innovations discussed and consider what they mean for the biggest questions IT leaders face. This year, network complexity continued accelerating, with multi-domain, multi-vendor, and multi-cloud management taking up a growing slice of mindshare for enterprises large and small. We learned that security challenges won’t take a back seat while we pursue digital transformation goals. We also saw that M&A activity, which is likely to accelerate throughout the…
The ONUG Community of Global 2000 firms spoke loud and clear at ONUG Fall 2022 in Manhattan, hosted by Raytheon. Enterprise computing is multicloud computing. The community knows multicloud delivers the widest range of options and choices for developer and infrastructure teams to address business requirements. Also, it was clear that multicloud is being required by regulators to mitigate concentration risk. The point that became crystal clear is that every IT organization needs a multicloud strategy and most importantly, an operational plan. This new thinking…
My musical interests are diverse. Classic rock, alternative rock, rap, folk, classical –heck, throw me a show tune every now and then; no one needs to know. I like what I like, and I don’t care if you do. But enough about me being a Nickelback defender. What I DO know is if I make a musical reference to a 1993 song, like Aerosmith’s Livin’ on the Edge, some of you won’t get it…and that’s ok. Nonetheless, that’s where we’re gonna hang out in this…
Since the O&A working group was started in the fall of 2019 a lot has changed. Digital transformation initiatives have been accelerated, largely due to the pandemic. The adoption of cloud computing and all things SaaS has dramatically increased within Enterprise IT. With the rise of Hybrid infrastructure and edge compute new holistic security challenges, and availability have become major pain points, especially when networks scale and IT talent is scarce. Therefore the importance of automation has moved up into the top five most important…
The inaugural 2022 Sysdig Cloud-Native Threat Report exposes some of the year’s most pervasive and costly cloud threats. As organization’s use of containers and cloud services continues to grow, attackers are turning their attention to the cloud. Just one threat actor can make substantial gains by simply taking advantage of misconfigurations and old exploits. They can earn thousands of dollars, almost passively off of their victims’ cloud infrastructure. Containers allow developers to get infrastructure up and running fast, but if malicious code is hidden inside…
