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The unprecedented global pandemic has fundamentally changed behavior. Where we go, the products we consume, how we consume them, the supply chains that deliver them and the way we work and interact with each other has all been altered. All the digital transformation best practices ONUG Members have adopted and espoused over the years, have entered into hyper-acceleration mode. ONUG member corporations are fundamentally changing to address and service the needs of digital consumers, partners and suppliers. During this process, skill sets, technologies, processes, budgets,…
Enterprise IT organizations, following the lead of hyperscale service providers, are adopting virtualization and automation technologies in order to scale infrastructure effectively. But no matter how much you automate and virtualize your systems, you rely on the physical network infrastructure that underpins it all to remain resilient. While the DevOps philosophy drives the efficient management of the logical layer, the hardware required to run it remains as important as ever. And so the network engineer’s role in keeping those physical devices operational at all times…
What best practices for agile infrastructure should you implement? Industry leaders gathered to discuss this topic at last Fall’s ONUG conference. Chris Swan of DXC Technology moderated a discussion with David McKay of InfluxData, Anne Currie of Container Solutions and Ben Hall of Katacoda. Below are their top five recommendations for enterprises today. Gather more insights by viewing their entire discussion here. Stay Up-to-Date Technology is changing rapidly, especially DevOps. Swan asked each participant for tips on how they stay up-to-date with the latest trends….
Upon a first glance you may not realize the difference between cloud networking and networking for the cloud. After all, are these not the same thing, you may ask? As you will learn here, even though they carry a degree of similarity, there are still distinct differences between these two concepts. We all know that for many organizations the cloud is not a question of “if”, but rather “when” and “how” (and of course “how much” ☺). The cloud-fist or even cloud-only strategies have become…
Using Infrastructure as Code(IaC for short) is the norm in the Cloud. CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, Serverless Framework, ARM… the options are endless! And they are so many just because IaC makes total sense! It allows Architects and DevOps engineers to version the application infrastructure as much as the developers are already versioning the code. So any bad change, no matter if on the application code or infrastructure, can be easily inspected or, even better, rolled back. For the rest of this article, let’s use CloudFormation…
Research firm Gartner simply defines DevOps this way: “DevOps represents a change in IT culture, focusing on rapid IT service delivery through the adoption of agile, lean practices in the context of a system-oriented approach.” Culture is the key word here. It’s about changing the mindset and completely revamping both the development and operational side of IT. DevOps isn’t something you buy. It’s something you do. Similarly, DevSecOps is based on embedding security controls within the DevOps workflow. Is institutionalizing DevOps really worth the effort?…
A panel of CTO’s sat down at a recent ONUG conference to discuss the top challenges facing their organizations in the age of digital transformation. This candid discussion between industry leaders provided insight into how their companies are tackling these challenges. You can watch their chat in its entirety here. Below are their top five hurdles plus insights from Don Duet of McKinsey & Co, Eric Reed of Cigna, Tsvi Gal of Morgan Stanley and Stephen Davy of Societe Generale. 1. Culture The panel discussed…
Like many other companies, GHD, one of the world’s leading professional services companies, needed to quickly scale work-from-home capabilities due to COVID-19 shelter-in-place mandates. The business need was clear: deliver an at-home work experience for GHD employees that was equal to working from the office. The Challenge Prior to COVID-19, GHD was prepared to support 1,500 active remote connections in any given region. But between March and April 2020, that number leapt to as many as 6,000 connections at once. GHD employees needed fast, secure…
Business continuity planning has always been important to large enterprise organizations. The current global pandemic has put business continuity front and center. There was a substantial and immediate surge in the number of remote workers, and a first order of attention for many enterprise IT leaders was placed on strengthening remote VPN solutions for their remote workforce. Now the most sophisticated enterprises are fast forwarding initiatives that allow them to operate their core business even in the event that their teams are out for a…
Just over 20 years ago, Ronco Inventions started running infomercials for their Showtime Rotisserie BBQ Oven on shopping channels. The infomercial promoted the oven with a simple tag line: “Set it and forget it”, which became a pop culture reference. [ngg src=”galleries” ids=”58″ display=”basic_thumbnail”]The “Set it and forget it” concept is one that many network administrators hope to find in the products that they use to operate infrastructure. They want technology and tools that are simple to deploy and require little to no tweaking after…
