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As the leaders in modern network monitoring and analytics, we have a unique opportunity to share what we’ve learned so far about WFH and the impact on networks. We hope that this blog and the unique, operational insights we get from working with our customers and our own network monitoring expertise, will help organizations and their IT teams with their efforts to support newly critical WFH-focused network services. Lesson #1: Focus on VPN Access We created two general types of users: Group A) those who mainly…
ONUG Digital Live is just a few weeks away and we’re ready for the best virtual experience in the industry. This ONUG is a special edition on Automated Cloud Governance. Why are we focused on this? Because governance gets in the way of all digital transformation projects and is usually the root cause of failure, thanks to lack of control of information and data, look no further than CapitalOne. At ONUG Digital Live we’ll deliver the first framework for automating cloud governance, a creative commons…
Companies across industries of all sizes require solutions that enable fast, easy deployment and real-time, centralized operations management. SD-WAN is strategically positioned to make the digital transformation a reality. Vinod Kumar Balasubramanyam of VMware spoke at ONUG’s Fall Conference, providing insight into why SD-WAN is the ideal choice for companies of any size. In addition to the benefits of using a scalable cloud architecture, he focused on how VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud is different from traditional approaches and how it interacts with legacy infrastructures. Here…
Healthcare costs are rising, and the current COVID-19 crisis is sure to create financial hardship for both patients and healthcare facilities. Providing affordable healthcare will become even more of a priority. Digital healthcare promises to be the catalyst for reducing costs and improving patient outcomes. Cigna is leading the digital revolution in the healthcare industry. Eric Reed, Cigna SVP of Global Infrastructure Services and Application Operations, spoke at last year’s ONUG conference about the opportunities opened up by the digital transformation, as well as the…
IT conversion doesn’t have to come with a huge price tag. Johnsonville Sausage proved that when they converted existing CISCO hardware into an SD-WAN architecture. Anthony Wild, Johnsonville’s Global Network Operations Manager, sat down with Lloyd Noronha of Cisco at last year’s ONUG Fall conference to discuss this simple shift that had a big payoff. A “Crippling” Old Infrastructure Before implementing SD-WAN, Johnsonville struggled with IT cost and complexity. They have eight significant locations around the world, with a range of other locations as well,…
From the Publisher: To say we all have been challenged over the past few weeks is a total understatement. We are concerned for the health of our families, self and businesses. At ONUG, last year we had scheduled our ONUG Spring conference in Dallas for May 2020; while it’s obvious now that a change was needed, it wasn’t so in early February. We are very fortunate to have a community during these times. So many people have offered advice and input. What proved to be…
At the ONUG’s spring conference in 2019, Dr. Douglas E Comer, a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, spoke about a recurring phenomenon in technology deployment: the lack of system interoperability that limits economic growth for businesses. As a member of the original IAB, he participated in the early development of the Internet and is internationally recognized as an authority on TCP/IP protocols, his expertise and experience provide a backdrop for insights into the future of cloud computing. Here is a synopsis of…
Use case narratives have long been established as invaluable guidebooks. Especially in the digital world where technology is rapidly changing, tapping the minds of those that are in the trenches yields immeasurable insights. This is exactly what happened at ONUG’s conference last Fall in NYC. The keynote session focused on large-scale automation made possible by Gluware. The panel consisted of Salvatore Rannazzisi, Principal Network Architect of Merck, and Kevin Carney, Retired Principal Network Architect of Mastercard, and was moderated by Jeff Gray, CEO and Co-Founder…
Monolithic applications are with us today because they either do the job (Etsy) or because successive applications of new paradigms have failed to yield a different result. Inevitably, the paradigm is blamed rather than the application of it. We need to address the real problem which is resistance to change rather than settling for the status quo. Let’s mark the birth of monolithic applications as April of 1965 with the first shipment of the IBM 360. It might be earlier, but for the purposes of…
Kubernetes has emerged as an effective technology for managing containerized workloads across platforms, environments and geographies, greatly streamlining operations workloads. More specifically, Kubernetes has helped organizations achieve fast DevOps. How so? That’s the question Jagmeet Chawla with The Weather Company and Jason McGee with IBM Cloud Platform answered during the keynote address at ONUG’s Fall Conference. The Weather Company is the number one digital weather property in the world, claiming 30 million active users through weather.com and wunderground.com during normal weather and two to three…
