The Onug Blog
Enterprise Cloud 2.0 Technology Solutions, Strategy and Use Cases
Subscribe
Multi-cloud adoption is witnessing steady growth as organizations vie for digital transformation. While the primary objective of multi-cloud is to support DevOps teams in their CI/CD initiatives, infrastructure complexity and disparate toolchains can sometimes stand in the way of accelerated application delivery. Challenges in orchestrating multi-cloud environments Complexity: A multi-cloud environment consists of different cloud architectural models, management dashboards, policies, and APIs, making it complex. Automation workflows that work in one cloud platform may not work in another. Security: Multi-cloud increases the environment’s surface area…
COVID-19 has literally forced companies around the world to turn on a dime. Overnight, they had to quickly scale their work-from-home capabilities in order to maintain business continuity and employee productivity. GHD, an engineering and consulting services company, was able to accomplish this daunting task. Brandon Carroll from tech company Riverbed interviewed Randy Taylor with GHD at ONUG’s recent Digital Live Event to get some insight into how they successfully made this transition. Listen to their discussion here, or read the highlights below. Forced to…
In the last few months, workers across the globe have moved from a traditional office setting into the home. This has created new challenges for businesses and placed new strains on the networks that support them. IT organizations are now working to adapt to the new reality of the hyper-distributed workforce and they’re seeking solutions that can improve how they manage connectivity in this new environment. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies have brought several benefits to the traditional office, ranging from reduced…
It’s no surprise the vast majority of organizations are using multi-cloud, according to a survey A10 Networks held with Business Performance Innovation (BPI) Network. Multi-cloud architectures leverage the capabilities of both public and private clouds. They offer benefits, including expanded access to best-of-breed services, performance optimization, reduced costs, high availability and low latency. However, multi-cloud also comes with challenges. Applications delivered via diverse environments with diverse capabilities often suffer from performance inconsistencies, creating management headaches and jeopardizing the user experience. In addition, companies struggle to…
“We were making cars without any brakes or seat belts.” That’s how moderator Keith Shinn, SVP, Head of Infrastructure of Caliber Home Loans, Shinn described DevOps during the ONUG virtual event this past spring. Joining his discussion were Shannon Lietz of Intuit, Pat O’Neil of FedEx and Chris Zanelli of Citihub. The group addressed challenges and possible solutions to institutionalizing DevSecOps in the Large Enterprise. IT business leaders are under pressure to deliver digital revenue streams at speed. DevOps makes that possible by improving agility…
Forward by Nick Lippis, Co-Founder and Co-Chair ONUG In the past six months most of the requirements and assumptions IT executives, architects and designers made about the IT systems they built to support their businesses have changed. There is a massive pivot for all corporations to be digital enterprises supporting consumers, partners and suppliers digitally. But in addition, every large corporation now has a massive digital employee pool to support as well. The ONUG community has always championed greater options and choices for IT…
Remote work is the new normal for today’s enterprise. Alec Pinkham, Director of Product Marketing at AppNeta, addressed issues related to this new dynamic at the Spring 2020 ONUG Virtual Conference. AppNeta is a leader in scalable solutions that monitor network performance from the end-user perspective. They provide real-time, actionable insights from remote offices, over internal networks and across the internet. AppNeta solutions allow companies to get to the bottom of performance issues regardless of where they occur. Pinkham brings his expertise and answers the…
The digital business landscape was already changing rapidly before the COVID-19 crisis. The emergence of the pandemic, however, has forced companies to shift into high gear. Now more than ever, having the right people, processes and technology are critical to success. An impressive panel of top female executives shared how they are meeting these new challenges at the recent ONUG Digital Live event. Paola Saibene of Quartus Fact moderated the discussion with Shannon Lietz of Intuit and Abby Kearns of Puppet. Watch their discussion here,…
“Cloud is the greatest transformation of all time,” said Daniel Conroy, VP and CTO at Raytheon Technologies. The journey to the cloud helps organizations increase productivity, get digital products to market faster and improve customer experiences. However, it also creates an environment where security and compliance have a hard time keeping up, often slowing down the process. How can we have all the benefits and meet the challenges? That’s one of the topics a collaborative of various organizations got together to discuss. Their first project…
While digital transformation is not a new concept, the COVID-19 crisis has forced it to “take on a new level of importance,” said Daniel Lawson of Verizon, one of the participants in a midday keynote at ONUG’s Spring conference, ONUG Digital Live (ODL). Lawson spoke with Brian Silverman of McKesson about each of their experiences in this changing environment, emphasizing the need to pivot and be able to react. “Digital transformation used to be about personalization, being flexible, and able to react to new demand…
