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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…
In the last few years, organizations have begun to focus more on digital transformation – moving workloads to the cloud, deploying the Internet of Things (IoT), experimenting with artificial intelligence and data analytics, and embracing a myriad of other technologies – all to become more efficient, deliver a better customer experience and, ultimately, drive more revenue. The pandemic kicked this gradual transformation into high gear, forcing CIOs to re-examine their IT infrastructure. Smart CIOs looked at expensive on-premise and dated data centers, saw them as…
Blog #2 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. Here in 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. The digital transformation movement is pushing enterprise IT to deliver agility, scalability and security for…
ONUG Cloud Native Security Working Group Blog Series #2 “For those of you with an interest in data-driven DevSecOps, the ONUG Cloud Native Security Working Group is kicking off a deeper-dive article series on the role of data in modern applications, discussing some best practices for translating an application’s operational data “exhaust” into deep insights and actionable feedback. The first piece in this series introduces the three pillars of the data-driven approach: collecting data across the breadth of the distributed infrastructure, ensuring data inputs also…
The challenges of working from home and the subsequent return to work will cause organizations to reevaluate how they look at networks for enterprise workloads and hybrid workplaces. The range of at-home networks and devices now engaged in critical business operations has grown by an order of magnitude and there might be little change as more employees opt to work a hybrid schedule as offices reopen. With more diverse and dispersed operations, IT decision-making processes—and IT teams, themselves— will need to evolve to meet new…
Business and industry press always tout how quickly companies are moving to the cloud. While this is true for cloud-first, start-ups, internet 1.0/2.0 companies, it is typically not the case for traditional enterprises, along with the vast number of local, state and federal government agencies and institutions. Over the past several years, ONUG Community members have voiced their concerns about moving workloads into the public cloud. To date, most community members deploy between 10 to 15% of their corporate workloads in the cloud, and those…
In its broadest sense, edge computing involves placing service provisioning, intelligence, and data closer to devices and users. With such a broad definition, it can mean edge services in an on-premise enterprise or in a cloud infrastructure. What the future holds for edge computing is a topic discussed by a recent ONUG panel. On the panel were: Ernest Lefner, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, ONUG / SM – FSO Digital Advisory, Ernst & Young, LLP Preetha Vijayakumar, VP Enterprise Network & Communications Services, FedEx Michael Parks, VP,…
If you’ve been working with enterprise networking for a while, you’ve likely seen the phrases “intent-based networking” or “network intent” and perhaps some promises that these technologies will revolutionize networking or lead to the rise of the self-healing network. While this sounds exciting, the impact that intent-based networking has had on the enterprise, although positive, has been more incremental than revolutionary. One of the limitations of intent-based networking systems (IBNS) is that these technologies focus on Day 0/1 network operations – deployment, configuration, and other…
As more companies move to a multi-cloud environment, their IT departments become inundated with security notifications. Trying to make sense of these statuses can be challenging as each cloud provider has its own notification formats. Adding one provider doesn’t mean doubling the notifications; the data grows exponentially until enterprises reach the “wall of worry.” Large enterprises have constructed security infrastructures to process the volume of events being transmitted. However, they require additional staffing to interpret and process the data sent from each provider. The ongoing…
It’s just been a few weeks since ONUG Spring gathered over 3,000 Global 2000 IT community members in the largest spring meeting to date. It was our third live virtual event, and we’ve all become pros adapting to the new technology. You can see it in how speakers, sponsors and community members are engaged, having become comfortable with the virtual ONUG platform. A few stats: nearly 80 countries and 1,000 unique companies, including Bank of America, Bank of NY, Wells Fargo, State Farm, FedEx,…
