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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…
F5 has always been a little different than other infrastructure companies. Yes, it cut its teeth on load balancing successfully, and this put F5 in-between developers and infrastructure teams. It is known in most corporations by both organizations giving them a wide view into requirements, which has served it well over the years. It started with physical appliances that balanced traffic as it entered a private data center destined to specific servers so as to avoid bottlenecks and improve user experience. Leveraging this data path…
Prior to 2020, companies were deciding how to move forward with their digital transformation strategies. Some organizations were deciding if 2020 was the year to replace legacy systems. Others were looking at omnichannel delivery. No one was anticipating the events of 2020. At ONUG Fall 2020, companies came together virtually to discuss digital transformation in the context of a global pandemic. This session looks at how companies are pivoting to become digital enterprises. The following three executives participated in the session: Rebecca Wooters, CDO Signet…
ONUG’s AIOps working group was created to discuss how to manage data and control access for AIOps vendors. The group investigated different approaches to data collection, storage, and access. The panel discussion which occurred at the ONUG Fall 2020 event outlined their reference solution and asked for organizations willing to help with a proof of concept. The panel, chaired by Alex Henthorn-Iwane, presented an overview of their work, encouraging session participants to feel free to comment or ask questions. The panel included: Bob Friday, Mist…
Operationalizing Flexible IT Business Platforms at Scale Hybrid/Multi-Cloud Infrastructure 2020 was a year when executives were forced to make 10 years’ worth of decisions in six months. In 2021, we will reflect on the lessons learned and digest the changes we experienced as we make incremental changes on our digital journeys. For many, digital transformation business models seemed “theoretical” in 2019 but have become essential in 2020. Systemic change occurred rapidly with the largest one being the need for all brands in all industry sectors…
Broadcom enhanced its analytic capabilities in the latest release of the DX NetOps network monitoring software that now enables network operations teams to reliably deliver applications experiences over SD-WAN technologies built on Silver Peak, VMware VeloCloud, Cisco Meraki, Nokia Nuage and 128 Technology. Enhanced application-aware optimization technology allows enterprises to centralize real-time application monitoring across their multi-vendor SD-WAN deployments in a unified view that includes existing multi-vendor network devices, infrastructure layers and applications. Working closely with SD-WAN solution vendors such as Silver Peak, Broadcom is…
