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Check out this session moderated by Stephen Collins of ONUG and Daniel Bar-Lev of MEF. Panelists from Telia Carrier, COLT Technology Services and InfoVista discussed the current state of SD-WAN adoption in Europe and the important role managed service providers will play in defining standard service delivery models that promise a turnkey, low risk approach to deployment, compared to the DIY route taken by early adopters in the U.S. market.
The notion of a self-contained network that lives inside a controlled, secure perimeter has been blown apart with the advent of cloud computing and the Internet of Things. Instead, technology advances have led to a sprawling profusion of networks and individual devices that live outside the network edge or on the near or far edge of centralized networks, creating new computing demands and security challenges. When organizations began connecting their local area networks (LANs) across multiple sites, they created wide area networks (WANs). This WAN…
What an exciting year it has been for the ONUG enterprise community. Last month in NYC at ONUG Fall, hosted by Cigna, Senior level IT executives and DevOps professionals from over 1100 large enterprises attended to share and hear the latest on building – running and securing the digital enterprise. Over 65 leading ONUG vendor partners delivered digital transformation proof of concept solutions that make up the industry’s software building blocks. There were so many great takeaways, but this one in particular was memorable. Leading…
Attendees at ONUG Fall 2019 were presented with 6 use cases and asked to vote on the top one or two that are most challenging for their organization. The voting results are shown below: These results validate ONUG’s decision to kick off two new working groups at the conference: Orchestration & Automation and AIOps for Hybrid Multi-Cloud. Going into 2020, the ONUG Community looks forward to seeing the output of these working groups as the members develop RFPs and reference solutions for leveraging the power…
We are so excited to share the news that we have upgraded the venue for ONUG Europe in London. ONUG Europe will take place at the gorgeous National Gallery in Trafalgar Square in London, December 4 & 5. At the National Gallery, we will be using the new Sainsbury Wing with the National Dining Room as the Digital Transformation Showcase, the Sainsbury Wing Theatre as the Main Stage and Conference Room 1 and Conference Room 2 as our break out spaces. (3D map of the…
We believe we are at an inflection point as the slow, steady progress towards standardization and APIs has been replaced by a frenetic response to the business and automation demands that are being placed on the network. What has historically been allowed to work independently at their own pace for risk mitigation purposes is now being thrust into the forefront of digital transformation strategies. While no one can argue the critical nature of networking to their digital and cloud strategies, we need to rethink a…
One of the major misconceptions around SD-WAN is that it requires a re-architecting of the network, and seeing the benefits will take anywhere from 6 – 24 months. It’s completely possible to have all the power of application-aware SD-WAN in as little as two months without re-architecting the network, and to start seeing digital ROI in less than 6 months. The secret key? It starts with understanding hybrid WAN architecture, and how it can bridge the gap between your current WAN and the capabilities you…
When it comes to cloud applications – and every business uses them – SaaS rules. CRM, ERP, HCM, UCaaS, productivity, and even desktops – these are just a few within the myriad of SaaS choices used by the workforce of today’s modern organization. What these apps have in common is that they’re beleaguered by a sub-optimal experience provided by a sub-optimal network. Long waits for Salesforce data to load, page timeouts while booking travel, or talking through a presentation and being two slides ahead of…
BGP protocol has allowed network operators to apply and enforce the most varied inter-AS routing policies during the past 30 years. It is amazing how this protocol efficiently sustained the ever-increasing number of subnets and AS’s, as well as the evolution of the Internet from a mostly hierarchical structure made of customers and providers to a structure where peering and IXPs become more important every day. Despite all its good qualities, BGP shows several vulnerabilities which, if exploited, can cause ripple effects all over the…
In my previous ONUG blog post Query Your Network like a Database, I talked about how companies are embracing Network Automation in order to become more agile. I described how Network Automation can be very powerful but frighteningly dangerous without a proper safety guard. I explained what the Forward Networks Network Query Engine is and how it can help in building a rock solid network verification solution. But now I’ll explain how customers can build a complete network automation and verification solution with Ansible and…
