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AI Announcement – Inaugural AI Networking Summit to Take Place in Dallas, May 15-16

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ONUG Announces Inaugural AI Networking Summit Unleashing the Power of AI in Enterprise Networking (Boston, MA) January 25, 2024 – ONUG, a leading organization dedicated to advancing the future of digital transformation, is excited to unveil the first-ever AI Networking Summit. This groundbreaking conference and exhibition will delve into the realm of AI-powered networking, exploring its transformative potential in enterprise operations, security, and networking across various industries globally. The AI Networking Summit is scheduled to take place at Union Station in Dallas on…

ONUG Social Compact: Building Trust and Collaboration in the IT Community

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, the relationship between IT professionals and their networks is pivotal. ONUG stands at the forefront of this dynamic, fostering a unique social compact with its IT professional members. This compact is rooted in trust, agnosticism towards suppliers, and a commitment to the IT consumer community. A Trusted and Supplier-Agnostic Brand ONUG’s primary commitment is to serve as a trusted and supplier-agnostic brand. This principle is central to our operations, ensuring that our members receive unbiased, well-rounded perspectives on the…

ONUG IT Infrastructure Simplification Initiative

ONUG IT Infrastructure Simplification Initiative Enabling Trusted Infrastructure for Business Value Creation Nick Lippis recently blogged about The IT Industry’s New Era of Simplification. Here I reflect on how the industry reached this inflection point and introduce a new ONUG Collaborative initiative focused on helping enterprise IT professionals overcome the numerous operational challenges that arise in today’s highly complex IT environments. High Cost of Complexity in the Cloud Era Amazon’s launch of AWS in 2006 initiated a wave of unprecedented technological innovation and disruption that…

Enhancing Security in Converging IT and OT Networks

As Enterprises accelerate their digital transformation, and information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) worlds continue to converge, security is paramount. Cyber threats are growing exponentially, while also becoming more sophisticated and harder to detect. Increasingly, mission-critical OT networks, which control and monitor complex physical processes, are being extended into the data center and combined with more typical IT traffic. This makes them attractive targets for cyber criminals looking to cause maximum disruption and extract as much money as possible from their victims.  In recent…

The IT Industry’s New Era of Simplification

The IT industry is entering a transformative phase focused on simplification. This shift is a response to the complexity that arose from the overbuild during the 2020-2021 phase. The rapid expansion in IT infrastructure during this period has resulted in systems that are now overly complex and challenging to manage, necessitating a streamlined approach. The Challenge of Complexity Post 2020-2021 In the wake of the 2020-2021 cycle, marked by an unprecedented surge in cloud services and remote infrastructure development, many organizations are grappling with highly…

ONUG Fall 2023: Record-Breaking Engagement and Pioneering Discussions in Network, Security & Cloud

ONUG Fall 2023, hosted by GSK in the vibrant heart of New York City on October 24th and 25th, concluded with unprecedented success, etching a new milestone in the Conference’s esteemed legacy. The event achieved the largest attendance in ONUG’s history. With attendee registration reaching nearly 1,400, ONUG Fall marked a significant 35% growth from the previous year. This was the 24th iteration of the ONUG Conference, which has now become an essential congregation for networking, security and cloud professionals, thought leaders and innovators across…

ONUG Fall Private 5G Event Retrospective

Private 5G Conference and Exhibitors On October 24th, we held a successful Private 5G Event at ONUG Fall 2023 in New York City. I want to personally thank each of the speakers and moderators who participated in the eight lively and informative conference sessions that day. Feedback from attendees and speakers was uniformly positive, and everyone present was able to engage in the type of dialog and interaction that can only happen at an in-person event. Cradlepoint/Ericsson, Oceus and, the 5G Open Innovation Lab exhibited…

‘Terraform’ in the Realm of Cloud Architecture: The Need for a Well-Defined Workflow

Terraform, a powerful tool for building, changing, and managing cloud infrastructure safely and efficiently, has garnered the undivided attention of the tech fraternity. What started off as a tool to deal with server configuration has gradually transcended to manage the complex infrastructural demands of today’s cloud architectures, evolving as the de-facto standard for expressing such necessities in cloud environments. Kelsey Hightower, a celebrated software engineer known for his advocacy for open-source software, cloud computing, and Kubernetes, adeptly expressed this sentiment during an insightful conversation that…

Data Hoarders Must Embrace Analytics

The conservation of quantum information theory states information can neither be created nor destroyed. Stephen Hawking used this theory to explain how a black hole does not consume photons like a giant cosmic eraser.  Outside the realm of quantum mechanics, we have the physical world of corporate offices. In this world, information is collected, curated, and consumed at an accelerated pace with each passing year. There is, however, one similarity between these two distinct realms: Data is never destroyed. We are a nation and a…

Convergence: Is IT evolving to OT?

Operational technology (OT) networks have been around for decades, successfully managing industrial and manufacturing systems that monitor and control complex physical processes. These include everything from robots on a production line to the valves and pumps in oil and gas pipelines to the traffic management systems for trains.  During this time, the underlying technology in OT networks has evolved from TDM to ATM to IP/MPLS and Segment Routing. Ensuring operational continuity is critical in OT networks because when an outage occurs, the potential consequences can…