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Enterprises are used to the idea that the cloud is consumable. After all, cloud consumability is the characteristic that brings the chief cloud benefit: business agility. Why build and maintain your own data center space, power, equipment, etc. when you can simply click or API your way to thousands of servers? For traditional IT teams, cloud consumability has been a revelation. For digital native DevOps and SRE teams, cloud consumability is a given. The bad news is that the WAN as a whole has historically…
A More Secure Digital Future During my long career, there has been one constant requirement I often hear, “I want to see an end-to-end view of an application.” This is the holy grail to assure great user experience, assure security and observability. Developers, IT infrastructure and operational teams struggle every day with this lack of visibility of an application’s dependency map. Gaining end-to-end visibility is hard enough when you own every device or piece of software that supports an application as in a private data…
Introduction Years after the term was coined by Stephen Paul Marsh in 1994 and popularized by John Kindervag more than a decade ago, Zero Trust has become the “new” security solution that addresses the confluence of today’s three critical factors and the emergence of what amounts to a cyber-war on businesses and governments. Zero Trust switches the focus from outward-facing defense of a network perimeter to prevention of unauthorized exfiltration of data and other exploits. This short work looks at why it has become virtually…
On January 12, 2010 Google wrote a blog revealing to the world that it had been breached by attackers sponsored by a nation state. The attack is now known as ‘Operation Aurora’.[i] Subsequent investigations showed that many other enterprises and government organizations had also been breached by the same attackers. Among other things, these hackers were targeting source code repositories via software configuration management systems. Any entity that had already breached perimeter network security and had created a presence on an internal system could reach…
Members of The ONUG Collaborative Working Groups are delivering solutions to the challenges faced by today’s Enterprise Multi-Cloud Community. Composed of both vendors and cloud consumers from some of the largest companies in the world, these Working Groups focus on delivering best-in-class solutions, both on-premise and off. Here’s a quick update on the initiatives being worked on by ONUG’s Automated Cloud Governance, Network Cloud, Cloud Native Security and AIOps Working Groups. Interested in joining the team? Contact us to find out more. Automated Cloud Governance…
The Era of the Cloud has made many pie-in-the-sky promises about more consistent, efficient, and resilient IT infrastructures, and has done an admirable job of meeting much of that potential. But there’s still a gap in what businesses want and need from a hybrid/multi-cloud infrastructure, and the industry’s capabilities to meet those needs. ONUG’s own Nick Lippis sat down with Adam Raymer (Head of Public Cloud Platform Architecture, JP Morgan Chase & Co.) and Shane Stakem (Head of Public Cloud Center of Excellence, JPMorgan Chase…
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…
