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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…
In today’s age of digital transformation, companies are trying to capitalize on the momentum by adding security operations automation and orchestration systems to their SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) platforms. Splunk acquired Phantom; IBM acquired Resilient; Rapid7 acquired Komand. These are all recent proofs of the rapid maturation of the market for security operations, automation, and orchestration. Security automation. It is the use of information technology for security event management and cyber incident response in place of manual processes. Security orchestration. Involves the integration…
Artificial Intelligence, advanced analytics, and next-generation monitoring are promising to deliver their benefits, but only when properly applied to the right problems. With that done, next-gen network analytics driven by Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be able to revolutionize traditional infrastructure management models, reduce costs, simplify operations, and provide new insights. AI can be trained to pinpoint network shortcomings and failures (even before they happen) and detect where the problem is. Also, it can fix insufficient network utilization, provide bandwidth and delay…
Cloud and containerization of infrastructure functions are enormous trends that will continue to reshape enterprise digital platforms. Containers are even expected to completely reshape the idea of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Enterprises that are built on or moved their core business functionality to digital platforms have become prevalent over the last few years. Companies that want to stay in the game need to be willing to adopt new platform strategies and risk their revenue streams by moving closer toward…
