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Organizations have cybersecurity as a top-of-mind priority – but are they spending their limited time and resources on the right areas? Or are many companies’ approaches to cybersecurity often misguided and ineffective? And if they are, what can companies do to protect themselves properly and proactively? Cybersecurity experts Greg Ferro of Packet Pushers and Johna Till Johnson of Nemertes recently had an entertaining – and direct – debate on the right approach to enabling cybersecurity. They covered everything from how the wrong mindset leaves companies…
The year 2022 marks 10 years in which the ONUG Community of Global 2000 companies have been defining and building the next generation of enterprise computing by leveraging a software-based approach to create business value. As a member of the Community, I want to say thank you for being an integral part of the future of the Enterprise Cloud! Despite extreme challenges over the past two years, ONUG has excelled, and we are so proud of the Community’s accomplishments. The ONUG Collaborative was born in…
For today’s IT operations teams, understanding and solving issues can feel like a nonstop game of whack-a-mole. Managing a diverse, edge-powered infrastructure isn’t easy for increasingly complex, distributed enterprises. Most IT operations teams have organically accumulated multiple legacy tools as their organizations have matured, each with its own distinct interface and training requirements. This tools glut can drag down IT operations and limit their ability to gain visibility. Manual processes make the problem worse, because they make correlating data across massive amounts of data a…
2021 has been a tremendous year for the ONUG Enterprise Cloud Community of Global 2000 IT business leaders, developers and sponsor members. 2021 broke all attendance records and marked the start of a massive IT enterprise cloud 2022 spending cycle. In 2020 – 2021, ONUG held four digital events attended by well over 13,000 enterprise attendees and built a community that is stronger than ever as we approach our 10-year anniversary and get back to in-person meetings! ONUG is in the most powerful position to…
It’s a challenge for most organizations to find the best ways to build environments that bridge their legacy and newer hybrid or multi-cloud networks. Whether it’s competitive pressure, time to market, innovation, or the demand for remote work, organizations now have pressing strategic business reasons to shift to the cloud. But research has shown that the gulf between network and cloud teams can be one of the biggest inhibitors to cloud adoption success. Recently, A Cloud Guru’s Drew Firment sat down with Padraig O’Connor, a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE)…
Enterprise cloud community offers sneak peek of in-person event, ONUG Spring 2022 BOSTON – November 16, 2021 – ONUG, an open enterprise cloud community of Global 2000 IT business leaders, recently completed its Fall 2021 event. ONUG Fall hosted over 75 speakers over 55 sessions. Thousands of IT executives and practitioners attended the event from some of the largest cloud consumers in the enterprise space, such as Delta Airlines, Exxon, Mastercard, Marriott, Disney, Bank of America, UPS, FedEx, Citibank and more. Attendees shared knowledge about…
This was an exciting month, as Riverbed hosted our Global User Conference and we participated in ONUG Fall 2021 and connected with colleagues, customers and the wider enterprise technology community. As we look forward to what’s coming for enterprises—it’s digital-first and hybrid by design, with cloud, SaaS and legacy technologies working together and employees collaborating and engaging with users anywhere, anytime on any device. To achieve the needs of today’s enterprise, businesses and customers are demanding IT organizations take the following steps to successfully move…
Beginning your Network Automation journey can seem like an overwhelming task. We often hear questions from our clients, such as, “Where do I even begin?” or “How can I ensure that I am building a platform the right way from the start?” All great questions. However, journey is the key word when it comes to automating your network. This blog post will detail some of the key findings I’ve discovered leading business development efforts at Network to Code and how our customers are successfully implementing…
Corporate networks have evolved over the years around the notion of physical spaces — offices, retail stores, factory floors, production studios, and data centers. We predominantly used client-server applications, with the server-side hosted in private data centers, and the client-side running on desktop and laptop computers at physical office locations. We accommodated remote users, business travelers, and the occasional home-based employees using the dreaded three-letter acronym — VPN. VPNs were deemed a necessary evil, both by the end-users who tolerated the clunky user experience and…
Blog #3 in a Series on APIs from the ONUG O&A Working Group Part One of this blog series on APIs for network automation set the foundation for the importance of using APIs (application programming interfaces) for network and end-to-end process automation. Part Two, we are going to look at more of the implementation details and points to consider when first looking to leverage API calls for automation. Here in Part Three, we are going to look at putting APIs to work to enable end-to-end…
