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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)…
There are many options available to IT teams for organizing and running hybrid multi-cloud environments at scale – for how they use infrastructure in public clouds, private clouds, and on-premise environments as well as how they connect all the enterprise applications that run in these environments. Cloud adoption is no longer an if, but how, so companies are focused on creating the best mix of public and private clouds to minimize spending and maximize their efficiency. Today, the majority of enterprises are developing strategies that…
Enterprises are increasingly looking to implement or reinforce their cybersecurity to protect themselves against malicious attacks. We are living in the wake of heightened cybersecurity tensions (on a global level) – cyber attacks have made their way from a mere inconvenience into crimes that can have global catastrophic repercussions. Organizations will need to implement the right processes and tools to protect their infrastructures from potentially devastating threats, especially when more and more companies are moving to hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It can be tough to…
In the past, IT departments were required to provide service and infrastructure that enable the rest of the organization’s staff to carry out their work and maximize productivity. They were present to allow the rest of the team to proceed with their work but had little or no input in the overall business strategy. Today, IT departments are at the heart of innovation and play a key role in driving the overall business strategy at any business. So, what is the role of IT in…
Besides public and private (on-premises) cloud solutions, the hybrid cloud is the third option that bridges the gap between the two. Despite the public cloud service market reaching the worth of more than $200 billion, many companies are also using on-site (private) clouds. On-site cloud is the best option for industries with strict workflow needs or those highly regulated. Hybrid cloud solutions allow enterprises of all sizes to take advantage of the public cloud scalability and flexibility without sacrificing security or performance. Before utilizing the…
The ONUG Hybrid Multi-Cloud (HMC) Working Group consists of IT executives tasked with identifying the barriers to cloud adoption and making actionable recommendations for how ONUG can help the community break through these barriers. For example, after each ONUG event, the working group evaluates attendee use case voting results, which often leads to the creation of a new working group in which users and vendors in the community will work together to define the requirements for a pressing use case and develop reference solutions that…
Moving to the cloud is motivated by the need for scalable and flexible middleware, database, and cloud services, not by gaining instantaneous storage and compute capacity or cost reduction. Running on a hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure provides different advanced application services that business units can use to secure their digital transformation journey. The shift to hybrid multi-cloud adoption for supporting IaaS (Infrastructure as a service) and PaaS (Platform as a service) is an essential milestone that an enterprise must evaluate, plan out, and ensure that…
First, a huge thank you to everyone who participated at ONUG Spring in Dallas this past May. It was the ONUG Community’s largest spring gathering yet, bigger than ONUG Spring 2018 in San Francisco by 20+% with some 300 new IT executives joining the community. The ONUG Board decided that Dallas is the new home for ONUG Spring moving forward. But not only was the Dallas ONUG successful in terms of community response, there were at least five major industry topics that everyone should know…
