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Technology companies have a diversity and inclusion problem. Many have promised to improve, but the reality is few have made significant headway. Google reported improvement in 2020 but still fell short of what would be considered a diverse workforce. 5.5% of employees were Black 6.6% of employees identified as Latinx 32.5% of employees were women Google is not alone. Other tech companies show similar numbers. Only Apply and Amazon show more diversity; however, much of that is because of their retail and warehousing businesses. During…
A remote-first workforce presents challenges for IT. It’s one thing to download a file using the office network. It’s an entirely different experience when trying to download that same file from halfway around the world. Ian Trueman, Director of IT Operations at ERM, faced exactly that situation as more end-users began working from home. This ONUG Fall 2020 session presents how ERM addressed the increased demand on its distributed network. Alison Hubbard, VP of Product Marketing for Riverbed, joined Ian Trueman to discuss how Riverbed…
As more organizations expand their digital footprint, they will grow to depend on network reliability, security, and adaptability. Traffic patterns will change as remote workers continue to increase. Network reliability will become increasingly important as a disruption in service means a disturbance throughout the enterprise. Manual configuration is error-prone, which is why many companies are moving to automation tools; however, only five years ago, “95% of network changes were done manually.” With network automation, businesses can overcome inefficiencies and improve their effectiveness to ensure their…
Over 95% of business executives believe that the pandemic accelerated their digital transformation. Analysts suggest that COVID-19 accelerated the worldwide digital transformation by five to six years, making it an acute disruption in how the world does business. Daniel Lawson of Verizon agrees, indicating that networks are at the center of this shift. In this keynote address, Daniel discusses the implications of the acute disruption with Jon Weg, a global CIO. Businesses have undergone a permanent change that requires the underlying networks to adjust how…
After the year we’ve experienced, no one feels comfortable making predictions. Look what happened to all those “2020 Trends”. This session isn’t about predicting the future but about identifying how 2020 changed the tech industry. Greg Ferro, Johna Till Johnson, and Nick Lippis look at ways the pandemic has redirected how businesses view technology. Sales Model All participants agreed with Greg’s assessment that enterprise sales models were changing. Specifically, tech companies found that they could sell solutions by offering a free trial and providing a…
As the world moves towards a more distributed and diverse working environment, leadership takes on a new meaning. It begins to apply to everyone because it needs to become a mindset, not just a skillset. During an ONUG Fall 2020 session, these four women discussed concepts that every leader should keep in mind: Radia Perlman, Dell Fellow Linda Tai, Senior Vice President – Chief Architect at Fannie Mae Rosalind Radcliffe, Distinguished Engineer at IBM Suzan Mahboob, Session Chair and Lead Programs Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment The…
ONUG is a community-driven organization. When ONUG was established back in 2012, its charter was to provide a forum for IT business leaders to exchange ideas, best practices and deployment challenges associated with skills/culture, process and solutions. Its early members realized that collectively as a community, they are stronger. No one company can change an industry. The largest of corporations or consumers of IT can get the best pricing, but they can’t change architecture and overall vendor approaches to deliver solutions. Only a community that…
When Gartner first introduced the concept of “secure access service edge” (SASE, pronounced sassy) into the enterprise IT lexicon back in August 2019, they had estimated that “by 2024, at least 40 percent of enterprises will have explicit [SASE] strategies,” up from less than 1 percent in 2018. Flash forward to today, and not even Gartner could’ve predicted the smorgasbord of intersecting world events that effectively upended every enterprise’s short- and long-term IT initiatives. Now, most enterprises have had to go cloud-first by default in order…
A 2020 survey found that at least half of data center workloads will remain in enterprise data centers until at least 2022. Businesses are hesitant to move more mission-critical operations to the cloud until there is more openness, transparency, and accountability. The following participants in the Evolving Data Center Networks session of ONUG Fall 2020 would agree: Christopher Liljenstolpe, Chief Architect, Cloud at Cisco Parantap Lahiri, VP, Network and Datacenter Engineering at ebay Charles Greenaway, Customer CTO at BT Global Carlos Matos, Executive Director, Cybersecurity…
During ONUG Fall 2020, Nick Lippis, Co-Founder of ONUG, shared his thoughts on the post-Covid world of cloud-based technologies. His presentation focused on three points. Enterprise cloud is the solution for surviving in a digital-first world The enterprise cloud has gaps that need to be addressed A critical gap in the implementation is security Addressing the gaps in the enterprise cloud infrastructure has become a priority as the demand for digital-first solutions has increased. The global pandemic has accelerated the adoption of cloud-based technologies to…
