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The New Workplace Requires a New Vision of the Network Is your workforce about to return to the office for the 40 hour week or embrace the new flex workplace? Either way, you’ll want to hear how networks are evolving to support new and more complex operating and performance demands. Network engineers and help desks are even more strategic to organization performance. Why? Because employees are now interconnected by networks than hallways and meeting rooms. From cloud apps to consumer routers and ISP hops a…
Blog #1 in a Series on APIs from the ONUG O&A Working Group We have all clamored for programmatic control and more intelligence in our networks and applications for years. We want to automate high-value repeatable tasks to eliminate toil in our programming world. In response, software developers released Application Programming Interfaces or APIs, essentially, more code to control their original code or application. The good news is we have programmatic control for automation! The bad news is there are almost as many ways to go about…
Learn how to transform with confidence using zero trust Zscaler has been pleased to sponsor ONUG conferences in years past, and 2021 is no exception. This week’s ONUG Spring 2021 Virtual Conference promises to cover the key challenges we all faced and the lessons we learned during the past tumultuous year. In ONUG’s words, “We will digest the changes we experienced together and discuss the technologies and strategies critical to our digital transformation business models in 2021 and beyond.” At Zscaler, we’ve been working closely with customers on…
A decade ago, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen wrote a WSJ opinion article that provocatively (at that time) stated that “Software is eating the world”. Today it’s safe to say that almost all enterprises are developing new applications for business processes by integrating in-house development, commercial offerings, and incorporating more SaaS and open-source components. Organizations are migrating applications and services to cloud native design patterns—often based on a combination of open-source and SaaS components—and deploying them on multiple public clouds and cloud-like on-prem or dedicated infrastructure….
Thanks to the open ONUG Community of digital architects and designers, we made a digital pivot last year and kept the community together at a time when we needed each other most. We continued our collaboration and expanded the community by a factor of four. ONUG Spring used to be the smaller version of ONUG Fall; not anymore. ONUG is now in sequential growth mode with every conference/trade show getting larger than the one before. We are more productive and engaged than we’ve ever been…
The Network: Here, There, and Everywhere A few years ago, if you asked someone on a networking team, “Where is the network?,” they would probably show you a wiring closet or a data center. They might also describe where the wireless access points are located and how remote offices are connected through MPLS or leased lines. This would be an accurate description of the traditional campus, branch, and data center networks that have been the norm for many years. These networks were comprised of specialized…
Enterprises have embarked upon the digital transformation journey for the last decade. We have learned that it’s not just a technological shift, but an organizational change in people, process and technology. The transformation itself is a multi-faceted change of the organization that renders the enterprise nimble, agile and efficient enabling the business to flourish. Figure 1 : Stages Of IT Orchestration Most CIOs are experiencing Digital Transformation Fatigue. Issues with the long-drawn process with consultants creating a slower than expected digital transformation or internal IT…
As more and more companies move to the cloud, the question becomes one of network infrastructure. How do organizations design, deploy and support a cloud-based network? Is it possible to achieve the end-to-end visibility that organizations require? Does the level of complexity make it impossible to securely manage resources? Listen to Matt Hoag, Senior Enterprise Architect for Koch Industries, as he talks about the company’s journey to a cloud network in this session from ONUG Fall 2020. Koch Koch is based in Wichita, Kansas, and…
Across industries, enterprise network architects are adding new agility and flexibility to their network infrastructure stacks through public cloud technologies like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings. While the benefits of network elasticity, cost savings, and capex avoidance are relatively well understood, NetOps professionals often struggle with managing and automating the operations and troubleshooting of cloud environments synchronously with the physical environments under their watch. Multi-cloud environments only add to this struggle. Perhaps this sounds surprising as cloud…
The consensus among ONUG Fall 2020 attendees was that the global health crisis accelerated digital transformation, but the transformation was not equal across the enterprise. Employees began to work from home, and businesses moved more applications to the cloud for worldwide accessibility. What didn’t change were the tools to help with that transformation. Now, a year later what needs to happen to operationalize a cloud or hybrid environment? IT was left trying to support cloud-based implementations with on-premise tools, most of which did not effectively…
