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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….
A series of ONUG Working Group calls, exclusively for IT executives, kicked off last week to share use case requirements and organize their work leading up to ONUG Spring on May 7th and 8th in Dallas. Some 80 IT executives registered to participate in the working groups to collaborate in an effort to build a set of hybrid multi-cloud reference solutions. IT executives from Ford, eBay, PwC, Bank of America, Citigroup, Apple, GE, McGraw Hill Education, Xcel Energy, First Data, Intuit, Gap, Paddy Power Betfair,…
In the last five years, AI has become a buzzword that spurred a lot of debate and discussions. We live in an increasingly digital world and continue to rely more and more on digital in almost all aspects of our lives. So, there is a need for us to understand the basic concepts and differences regarding that field. However, some of the first uses of AI technology is found right there in the IT sector. Those working in the IT sector are acquainted with the…
Recently, ONUG had the pleasure to host a roundtable and discuss new risks to infrastructure security, what IT trends can protect them, what is driving security today and how the landscape might look over the coming years. The panel included eminent figures from various industries and included Harmen Van der Linde (Director & Global Head of CitiManagementTools at Citi), Gene Sun (Corporate Vice President & CISO at FedEx), Chris Inglis (Visiting Professor of Cyber Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy & a member of the Board…
AI Demands New Network Capabilities Artificial Intelligence (AI) is driving the need for high-performance distributed computing and high-speed distributed storage using Solid-State Drives (SSDs). The traffic model for efficient AI training requires very high network throughput, and storage networks based on Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) or Solid State Device drives (SSDs) add a low-latency requirement for the network. Thus, new applications and IT infrastructure are placing new demands on networks. Fortunately, solutions are available to meet these demands with reliable ultra-high throughput. Innovative technologies such…
