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With all the buzz surrounding “cloud migration” and other hard-to-define concepts, it’s easy for IT executives to get an “innovate or die” mentality regarding their networks and apps. As a result, teams may be tasked with sprinting to adopt cloud technologies or overhaul legacy systems simply so that they don’t fall behind the technological trend curve. But whenever network teams undertake changes of any scale without having a well-developed, data-driven strategy, they’re bound to pay a price. Unfortunately, this seems to be the case at…
The turn of the millennium brought with it a word, “digitalization,” that made businesses of all sizes – small, medium, and large – rushing to jump into the bandwagon. Digitalization chiefly meant discarding paper-based manual processes and moving to a digital platform where all data and processes are electronic. Ledgers became spreadsheets, and emails became the norm for communication. The past decade, however, has spurred businesses to go beyond digitalization. With multiple companies offering the same service, customers are increasingly spoilt for choice. This fueled…
You might have heard that multi-cloud is the future of IT. It would be more accurate to say it’s the present of IT. More than 80 percent of enterprises already have a multi-cloud strategy. But what is multi-cloud, exactly? As the name suggests, multi-cloud is an IT approach in which an organization uses multiple cloud services from more than one provider. Hybrid cloud versus multi-cloud Hybrid cloud and multi-cloud might sound like the same thing, but there is one crucial difference. With hybrid cloud, an…
Working groups serve as ONUG’s vehicle for generating industry change. Members of the ONUG Community – IT professionals, vendors, service providers and solutions integrators – join together to address the wide range of challenges enterprises must overcome on their journey to digital transformation. Enterprise IT application deployment in complex hybrid multi-cloud environments presents users with a wide range of entirely new technical, business and organizational challenges that present significant barriers to adoption. The ONUG Working Groups are tasked with addressing these challenges, which each working…
There has been an increased drumbeat in the business press about a recession on the horizon, thanks to the inverted yield curve, trade tensions, slower global growth, earnings pressure, etc. But don’t get too concerned; according to Mark Haefele, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) at UBS, in his August 14th CIO report, “We remain confident that the US will avoid a recession next year (2020). But we expect growth to remain muted.” UBS pegs a recession in 2020 at 50% if the US imposes the full…
ONUG has expanded dramatically over the past year, and much of this will come into focus at ONUG Fall in NYC on October 16th and 17th. The community has expanded to embrace enterprise technologists building upon its IT business leaders roots. That is, as community member companies become more and more secure digital enterprises serving digital customers, the lines between the chief information officer, chief technical officer and chief digital officer organizations are being redrawn. Thus enterprise technologists have found their way to ONUG to…
A sales representative at a remote branch office just opened a ticket with support. She is unable to load new emails as well as the team group chat on her laptop when connected to the corporate WiFi. As a result, she had to tether her laptop to her mobile phone and use her own personal data plan to fuel her work. A developer at the main building just stopped by your desk and mentioned that uploading a large file to a remote cloud server is…
The ONUG Community is eager to explore the application of AI technology to streamline operator workflows and drive the automation of complex, hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure. In a conference session at ONUG Spring 2019 in Dallas, IT executives and vendors shared perspectives on the challenges of hybrid cloud operations and exchanged ideas for solving the key problem of correlating monitoring data sourced from different operational silos across multiple domains and multiple layers (application, infrastructure and network). A promising approach is to provide an abstraction layer…
ONUG is the largest community of IT executives in the Global 2000 focused at the intersection of business and digital strategy taking their corporations into the digital economy. At the heart of ONUG is sharing; that is, IT professionals gain the best insights from peers that share best practices and challenges. Business -driven digital transformation strategies and outcomes are the main focus of the community. NOW OPEN: Seeking Use Cases and Speaker/Panelists for ONUG Fall and Europe! We invite you to submit your presentation on your…
Within every large corporation today, a power battle is brewing. The battle is over who will own the digital enterprise; that is, who will have the authority, people, budget and responsibility to develop digital revenue streams and move their corporation into the digital economy? ONUG Community members are building and running secure digital enterprises but are confronted with a series of organizational, cultural, skills, budgeting and technical challenges. These challenges are questioning the role and structure of Chief Information Officer (CIO), Chief Technical Officer (CTO)…
