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Organisations are increasingly evaluating retiring their legacy architectures – such as routers at the branch – due to the continuing migration of applications to the cloud. In November 2017, Forrester projected that 2018 would be the year that more than 50 percent of enterprise applications would be hosted in public and private clouds. However, in 2018, that figure reached 96 percent of 997 small-medium sized businesses and enterprise companies surveyed now use cloud services. As the migration to cloud-based applications and infrastructure accelerates further, organisations…
Certain communities in the industry have been preaching that infrastructure should be code. That is, infrastructure should be clickable, meaning that configuring an application dependency map, firewalls, networking, load balancers, etc., should be as easy as clicking a few buttons. There is no doubt that the industry is moving in this direction; consider F5’s $650 million purchase of NGINX, which is most often used as a clickable load balancer. Not only is NGINX a good example of clickable infrastructure but its business model is a…
All Global 2000 firms are awash in infrastructure data. Every device that an application flows through, be it network equipment, firewalls, servers, load balancers, cloud providers, service providers, storage, etc., provide data to communicate state metrics, events, logs, et al. That is, all the devices that an application depends upon to deliver the intended user experience have some data that provides insight into how it’s operating. The problem is using this data to understand user experience on an end-to-end basis is extremely difficult today as…
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…
