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2021 has been a tremendous year for the ONUG Community of Global 2000 IT business leaders and sponsor members. In the ONUG Collaborative, Oracle Cloud has joined to help develop the open source Cloud Security Notification Framework’s Decorator along with Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and Google Cloud Platform under the guidance of FedEx, Cigna, Raytheon, Intuit, Adobe, Fidelity Investments, Goldman Sachs, Kaiser Permanente, etc. Cisco, Sysdig, Wiz, Concourse Labs and many others are now making the Decorator, a common data model and metadata scheme to…
We’re constantly told to “Shift Left” and that Secure DevOps is the only way to have confidence in your cloud native applications. But speaking to end-users and industry colleagues, it’s clear that there are some major challenges in adopting Secure DevOps. If we read our history books, we know that DevOps wasn’t successfully adopted by buying tools, and a true cultural movement towards DevOps wasn’t established by having a small dedicated team of DevOps specialists. I’m sure many of us have read the Phoenix Project…
There’s a lot of talk about the ‘edge’ these days—edge compute, edge cloud, near edge, far edge, the list goes on. We see these as just different approaches to ensure that enterprise employees have ‘always-on’ access to the data, content, and applications they need to do their jobs—regardless of their physical location. These edge approaches also deliver a higher-quality customer experience and meet application specific latency and bandwidth needs. For over a decade, enterprises accomplished this task by moving many applications into public, private, and…
Outsourcing IT infrastructure to public cloud is on the rise for Financial Service Institutions (FSI) and in most cases, enterprises will work with the Cloud Service Provider (CSP) of their choice to plan and manage workloads and software services. A lot of the early cloud strategy and decision-making can be influenced by what that initial CSP prescribes. Similarly, the CSP can dictate what products customers can consume within an established scope. FSIs are relying more heavily on CSPs. The role the CSP plays in supporting…
ONUG Cloud Native Security Working Group Blog Series #1 Over the next several quarters, the ONUG Cloud Native Security Working Group will be publishing a set of short articles that examine different aspects of modern application security –new threats, the role of big data and machine learning in addressing those threats, how security interacts with the CI/CD development process, and more. The discussion of how to protect today’s applications begins with understanding how applications are built. And understanding modern application architectures requires us to appreciate…
Dual appointments bring security innovation and financial enterprise infrastructure expertise to ONUG NEW YORK – August 4, 2021 – ONUG, the voice of the Global 2000, today announced the appointment of Shannon Lietz, vice president of Vulnerability Labs at Adobe, to the ONUG board as co-chair alongside Nick Lippis and Ernest Leffner, co-founders of ONUG. Further, Yesim Akdeniz, managing director of architecture, technology and engineering at Citigroup, is being appointed to the ONUG board. In addition to her new role as co-chair, Lietz will also…
First, I want to thank all of our great ONUG Sponsors for being a part of and supporting our growing community of IT professionals and increasingly open source developers. ONUG Sponsors continued to support the community as we all navigated the pandemic. They helped keep the community together during challenging times, and we thank them for this support. The one question I always get from potential and existing sponsors is “when are you going back to in-person.” For ONUG Fall, my response is quick: the…
Multicloud strategies are the de-facto standard across enterprise IT these days, as companies depend on numerous cloud vendors and software-as-as service (SaaS) solutions. Indeed, research firm IDC predicts that more than 90% of companies will depend on multicloud infrastructures by 2022, as the COVID-19 pandemic drove home the urgent need for business agility. Cloud was also supposed to simplify life in IT—speed, flexibility, scalability. And in many ways, cloud does provide those benefits. But the growing mix of public and private clouds and SaaS applications…
As an old IT Ops person, it’s easy to look back at a career full of important, necessary tasks. Stuff needed to get done. People needed to do them. I was one of those people. It was a sobering day when I came to realize that “necessary” didn’t really mean valuable from a business perspective. As it turns out, configuring servers, networks, storage systems and firewalls was NOT our business…EVER! Who knew? Now every IT executive, from Engineering to DevXXXOps knows this truth. All of…
Today’s enterprise edge is incredibly complex. As global users work from anywhere, their devices create tremendous amounts of data, originating from wireless LANs, LAN switches, routers, firewalls, and countless cloud and SaaS applications. Analyzing this data and extracting meaningful, actionable insights creates a major challenge for maintaining business continuity across distributed workforces. Only by harnessing the power of correlation and enterprise Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) can users rapidly remediate and heal their networks. A Step-by-step Approach to Employing AIOps How do you launch…
