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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…
Yup, I’ve taken creative license with Robert Frost’s revered poem, “The road not taken”. While I have taken liberties with the protagonist’s motivations, the theme resonates when I consider the many decisions enterprises and managed service providers (MSPs) face today with their technology choices. Which ‘road’ to take, choice to make? A wrong decision can change the course for any business. Sometimes choices are made for them, based on limited options. But when it comes to operational and business challenges, nobody should have to choose…
ONUG Staff and Board are in high gear for ONUG Spring in Dallas with corporate sponsors United Technologies, Cigna and FedEx. We’re putting the final touches on the conference agenda. At ONUG Spring, the speakers will be a mix of cloud first and traditional enterprise players as the community focuses on Enterprise Cloud. This will be a cloud-native-meets-the-large-enterprise type of ONUG. The corporate sponsors of ONUG Spring formed a collaborative via ONUG with PNC, Pfizer, Kaiser Permanente, UBS, et al., DevSecOps teams. The collaborative is…
As the large enterprise starts — yes starts — to consider public cloud, cloud governance needs to be addressed as it requires a new architecture. For all the cloud hype in the industry, the reality is that in the large enterprise only about 10% of workloads are in the public cloud. Holding back IT business leaders is a set of interrelated issues, common to all corporations, which are cloud security, policy, compliance and governance. A fundamental truth for all large corporations is that they, and…
The ONUG AIOps for Hybrid Multi-Cloud working group was launched last year at Fall ONUG 2019 by a small team of vendors that developed and presented a reference architecture for AIOps. The proof-of-concept demo featured a data virtualization layer that unifies access to monitoring data aggregated from many points, end to end, across a hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure. The working group’s objective for 2020 is to further develop this PoC, which supports a critical use case: applying machine intelligence to speed root cause analysis when users…
The ONUG Working Groups kicked off 2020 in mid-January. Since then, participants have been meeting weekly to discuss the specific enterprise cloud adoption challenges that each working group will tackle this year. A blend of enterprise users and vendors in the ONUG Community have participated in the weekly calls, with users articulating their issues and concerns, which is critical input for identifying the set of use cases that each working group will tackle. There is still work to be done on prioritizing use cases, but…
NOW OPEN: Seeking presentations for ONUG Spring and Fall! We invite you to submit your presentation on your company’s digital transformation success. There are no limits on the type of digital projects you submit. Projects can span across customer engagement, infrastructure, IT and organizational transformation. The ONUG Board will review and approve those to be presented at ONUG Spring in Dallas, May 6-7, supported by our corporate sponsors Cigna, United Technologies and FedEx. ONUG Fall takes place October 13-14, in New York City. Proposals are…
