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Call for Participation: AIOps for Hybrid Multi-Cloud Working Group

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…

ONUG 2020 Working Group Objectives Coming Into Focus

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…

Call for Presentations: IT Executives Needed to Share Enterprise Cloud Journey Success & Challenges

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 Are Not a Spectator Sport

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]…

Can Kubernetes Avoid Becoming OpenStack 2.0 and Emerge as an Enterprise Cloud Software Building Block?

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 2020 Focuses Community Efforts on the “Enterprise Cloud”

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…

ONUG Europe 2019 Field Trip Report

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…

ONUG and MEF Collaborate on Managed SD-WAN Services and Standards – The European Perspective

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.

On the Edge: How Sprawling Networks Have Redefined WAN Security Requirements

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…

2019 What an Exciting Year: November ONUG Report

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…