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The Power of the ‘Automation-First’ Approach

One of the main challenges when working on any automation project is writing the automation templates. Each cloud provider has its own template language, which means that you can’t reuse anything already written by other frameworks. This makes many automation projects substantially longer than they would have been otherwise. This blog piece explores how an ‘automation-first’ approach addresses this challenge by allowing the reuse of existing artifacts from different frameworks—substantially speeding up the time it takes to achieve end-to-end automation. It also discusses how Cloudify…

The New Requirement: Advanced AI-Driven Network Triage and Remediation

Broadcom is a proud sponsor of  ONUG Fall 2019 in NYC. Join us as we showcase how to simplify Hybrid-Cloud and SD-WAN deployments by combining AI and ML with rich granular data captured at the chip level for one-of-a-kind AIOps analytics and automation. The highly complex nature of today’s modern hybrid IT architectures continues to present increasing challenges for teams relying on traditional, siloed or domain-specific monitoring approaches to deliver a reliable digital experience. With these disparate tools, it will remain extremely difficult and time…

The Past, Present, and Future of a Network

Modern navigation systems such as those available in cars, smartphones, and high-tech gadgets have become immensely popular. They efficiently guide you to your destination with real-time information. It is cumbersome and unsafe to look at paper maps while driving. Also, one does not need to stop and ask for directions anymore. The reason navigation systems such as Google Maps are so accurate is because they use past, present, and future information effectively. Past: Navigation systems have access to a large bank of data that they…

How to Ensure Cloud Migration ROI

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 Role of Low-code Network Automation in Digital Transformation

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…

What is Multi-Cloud

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…

The ONUG Working Groups: Attacking Hybrid Multi-Cloud Challenges From Multiple Angles

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…

In a Downturn? Double Down on Being Digital

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…

Gearing Up For the 7th Annual ONUG Fall in NYC: August Newsletter

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…

Network Visibility in Hybrid Multi-Cloud Environments

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…