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SD-WAN has arrived and is undeniably a hot topic in the networking industry given the 60+ solution providers vying for a share of wallet. Enterprises are looking to SD-WAN technology to facilitate better connectivity among their branches, improve application quality of service and drive down data transport costs. Recent industry research1 has predicted that 30% of companies will adopt SD-WAN services by 2019. Consequently, flexibility, automation, service agility with a centralized control and management plane are the top advantages that SD-WAN vendors are promising to…
While executive management focuses on the opportunities that digital transformation presents for their corporations, IT business leaders are busy planning how to deliver its effect. One of the most important and least discussed topics on every corporation’s digital journey is organizational transformation. Every senior level IT leader in the Global 2000 is debating the type of skills, culture and organizational model that’s needed to build and run a secure digital enterprise. Many CEOs think that they should adopt the Facebook, Amazon, Google, et al., model,…
Talk to any CEO of a Global 2000 firm about their IT staff, and most say they would fire the vast amount of them if they had another, lower cost, way to deliver digital value. Most of this thinking comes from the fact that large enterprise technology providers are oligopolies within their segments and use this market power to charge large sums for their products and services. In short, the global economy has been locked into a small number of very large technology firms that…
On February 21st, ONUG conducted a live webinar in which the IT executive co-chairs of the Software-Defined Security Services Working Group presented an overview of the requirements for the three primary use cases that will underpin the working group’s activities in 2019: #1 Binding Security Policies to Workloads – Policies should be bound to workloads, such as virtual machines, containers, applications, services or micro-services. #2 Single Policy, Multiple Deployments – Write security policy in one place and deploy in multiple places, where workload policy would then…
The adoption of container technology continues to mature and advance. Today, enterprises are steadily recognizing the importance of enterprise container platforms – they provide a complete solution for operationalizing and securing applications in containers at scale over the entire lifecycle of software. Containers allow developers to be less dependent on infrastructure and more agile. Their applications are made portable, and they’re able to get more out of their compute. That is why many app teams are considering to migrate their existing apps to containers. What…
Starting this week, the M&A and SD-WAN 2.0 Working Group calls will include both vendors and IT executives. To bring everyone in the ONUG Community up to date, here are summaries for what IT executives in each working group have been discussing in the first three calls this year. Anyone who would like to participate in either working group is encouraged to join. The next step is to prioritize the key use cases to concentrate on and then flesh out the detailed functional requirements for each….
Companies must consider many factors to decide which IT infrastructure is the right fit. Some enterprises are not able to transfer into the cloud, so they rely on their on-premise software and applications to conduct their business operations. However, due to newfound flexibility, scalability, and agility for enterprises – cloud computing has grown in popularity. Sure, on-premise applications are secure, reliable, allow companies to maintain control on a level that the cloud often cannot. But, in addition to on-premise systems, enterprises will need to leverage…
The second round of ONUG Working Group calls took place last week, with each group engaged in the process of identifying pressing use cases that need to be addressed with the goal of articulating a clear set of requirements that are unambiguous and actionable. The philosophy for 2019 is “less is more.” Each group is bounding use cases to a straightforward hybrid multi-cloud environment with sufficient diversity to flesh out critical requirements but not so complex that the exercise turns into “boiling the ocean.” Well-bounded…
With so many large-scale data breaches that occurred in the last couple of years, we must ask ourselves: what does it take to improve the current cybersecurity processes and how to detect vulnerabilities and attacks on time? In reality, many people still think of cybersecurity as a specialized career, which is not something an average person should know or learn about. We live in an age where we increasingly manage our lives (both personal and business) digitally. That is the main reason why anyone should…
The Future of IT Work The ONUG narrative is focused on digital transformation within the Global 2000 and its underpinning technologies plus IT culture, organization and skills realignment to manage this exciting transition. Technologies, such as hybrid multi-cloud, a secure internet, machine learning, artificial intelligence, automated and software-driven infrastructure, software-defined wide area networking 2.0, are all but some of the topics on the agenda at ONUG Spring 2019. Front and center at ONUG Spring will be reference solutions to the most common digital transformation problems….
