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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…
The ONUG Working Groups kicked off 2020 with two conference calls for all working group participants, conducted during the week of January 13th. The calls were attended by a good mix of enterprise IT executives and suppliers involved in each of the currently active working groups. ONUG CTO Stephen Collins presented an overview of the working groups’ purpose and process, and this was followed by a discussion about possible initiatives for 2020 and potential new areas of focus for the working groups. [Download a PDF]…
Kubernetes has been heralded as the great interoperability point of the cloud era. Finally, development teams can write an application once hosted in a container and run it anywhere, on any cloud, public or private. And this is somewhat true. The industry has been through a lot of frameworks in the past few years, including RedHat’s OpenShift, open-source Kubernetes, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) running with containers, VMware Enterprise PKS, Rancher, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) plus Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS),…
ONUG 2019 was focused on building and running the secure digital enterprise via hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. The ONUG Board decided to build upon this work and focus our significant community resources on the “Enterprise Cloud.” At ONUG, the Enterprise Cloud is the primary business platform in which a corporation becomes a digital enterprise driving digital revenue and operational efficiency. Central to this journey is the building of hybrid/multi-cloud infrastructure to deliver digital experiences and brand value to customers, partners and suppliers at scale and…
Dear ONUG Community, First things first as we close out on 2019 … Thank You For Your Support of the ONUG Community – the Architects of Our Digital Future At ONUG Europe, many members asked that I put together a field trip report that could be shared with their colleagues, and I am pleased to share this with the larger ONUG Community. Last week in London at ONUG Europe, supported by Bank of America, senior level IT executives from over 200 large enterprises attended to…
