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The Beautiful Art of Listening

“Listen to me!” “Pay attention to what I’m saying!” These are not uncommon things to hear in a relationship, particularly ones that are in stress. My ex-wife used to say I didn’t listen to her…or something like that. There’s a lesson, yes, right there. We live in an extraordinary time where platforms abound from which we can be heard, but is anyone really listening? While preparing for ONUG Fall 2022, I had the privilege of recording promotional video snippets for many of ONUG’s supplier partners….

Days Away from ONUG Fall

We are just a few days away from gathering for ONUG Fall 2022, at Center415 located at 415 5th Avenue (between 37th & 38th Streets) in Manhattan; hosted by Daniel Conroy, Raytheon Technologies Corp VP, Enterprise Infrastructure Services. The theme of ONUG Fall is Enterprise Computing Is Multi-Cloud Computing. There will be plenty of lessons learned, best practices, training, and most of all, a message to the ONUG Community that this is the time to pause and consider how we want the multi-cloud era to…

Broadcom Software Debuts the Experience-Driven NOC at ONUG Fall 2022

Broadcom is showcasing Experience-Driven NetOps at the ONUG Fall 2022 Live and Virtual Event, October 19-20. This training session, open to all ONUG Fall attendees, will highlight AppNeta’s advanced end-user experience monitoring capabilities for modern networks. With the combination of DX NetOps and AppNeta, teams can gain industry-leading, end-to-end visibility. This enables operations to have a complete understanding of network delivery from the end-user perspective, including for any user, on any device, on any network, anywhere in the world. Top three reasons to attend and participate in the Broadcom Software sessions…

It’s Time to Convene!

As leaves in the east start to color, the ONUG Community is getting ready to convene in New York City! That wonderful city of great restaurants, entertainment, diversity and culture. Over the years, I’ve realized that ONUG possesses the power to convene IT business leaders from all industry segments of the economy and from all over the world. ONUG Fall on October 19th and 20th, hosted by Raytheon Technologies, will be no different; in fact, it will be our largest gathering since ONUG Fall 2019!…

The Whale…How to Eat It.

I don’t eat whales, but the truth is, many people, in many cultures, DO! Not so daunting a task perhaps if it’s a team sport, but what if it’s just YOU! Then, as the phrase goes, there’s only one way to do it….One Bite at a Time!!! Segue alert!!!!! Such is the case with Policy as Code (PaC). It’s such an important objective for today’s enterprises, but it also has (as I like to say): “More Questions than Answers”! The truth is, what PaC may…

Progressing Your Network Automation Journey: Why Integration, Transformation & Participation are Critical for Success

The days of simply defining the perimeter of where applications and services are hosted in a single data center are long over. Previously, just by opening a network diagram and pointing to the data center, you could secure the inside network by deploying firewalls to protect it from the outside world. Today, with network infrastructure expanding, those perimeters are no longer simple to define. Applications are comprised of many related services that exist across on-prem data centers and one or many cloud platforms, presenting new…

Taking a Security-First Approach to Cloud Migration

Sponsored by Comcast Business Cloud is no longer a futuristic, aspirational technology for enterprise organizations. It has become the norm for both the agility it provides and its potential cost efficiencies. Private, public, hybrid, off-prem, and on-prem, the list of options for cloud migration is deep and wide. The shift to the cloud has only quickened as enterprises work to optimize their networks to support a more distributed workforce. Cloud-based applications have enabled you to work from anywhere—your corporate HQ, branch office, home office, or…

Is Your Multi-Cloud Estate Secure?

It is unlikely that anyone would question the need for securing their hybrid multi-cloud estate; the number of mission-critical applications running in the public cloud nearly doubled between 2020 and 2021, and the growth is expected to continue. (Source: 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Information Security, Budgets & Outlook 2021). Cloud providers want to mitigate concerns, often saying, “The cloud is more secure than your on-prem network.”  This is true, sort of. Public cloud providers have more highly trained experts focused on cloud security…

Top 5 Sessions at ONUG Fall We Can’t Wait to See

October can’t get here fast enough. ONUG Fall 2022 kicks off on the 19th and promises to bring a ton of actionable content focused on this event’s theme: building secure, observable, and automated enterprise multi-cloud infrastructures. For two days, the Enterprise Cloud Community will gather in NYC to tackle big challenges and bigger solutions for cost-effective and secure multi-cloud architectures. This includes strategic and tactical ways to operationalize DevSecOps in the enterprise. But while we think all of the speakers and panels in the lineup…

Multi-Cloud Is the Next Wave of Enterprise Computing

Enterprise computing is multi-cloud computing; it’s hard, complex but so worth it as your IT organization gains control and choice for developer and infrastructure teams. Infrastructure teams’ main job is to make life easier for developers to write applications that deliver corporate digital value. Multi-cloud delivers the widest pallet of tools and constructs for corporations to create value for their customers and shareholders. But while multi-cloud may not be easy, being locked into a single cloud provider is far worse.   We all know that the…