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The mission of the OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is to accelerate the development and adoption of advanced fabrics. ONUG, aggregates use case requirements across its Global 2000 members with a focus on software based infrastructure that spans public and private clouds. So why is the OFA here talking with you about interconnects and fabrics? Simple – it’s because high performance networks have been shown to be a game changer in transforming high performance computing (HPC) systems and they are poised to do the same in the…
It’s official: micro-segmentation has become “a thing.” Enterprise security experts are declaring that 2018 is the year they are going to do it and do it right. The irreversible movement of critical workloads into virtualized, hybrid cloud environments demands it. Audits and industry compliance requirements make it imperative. News stories of continued data center breaches, in which attackers have caused severe brand and monetary damage, validate it. Customers tell us (and independent studies confirm) that east-west data center traffic now accounts for most enterprise traffic…
The ONUG organization has taken a leadership role to advocate for open standards and interoperability across networking technologies that have led to tremendous improvements in automation. Recent years have seen a flurry of network automation projects as organizations improve their network agility to keep up with DevOps, as well as a proliferation of virtual application deployments and container-based microservices. Automated and programmatic configuration of network devices and overlay networks, with technologies such as SDN, have also greatly eased the burden on IT resources and accelerated…
Digital Transformations Get Pervasive – Driving Enterprise Productivity, Efficiency and Competitiveness CIOs across enterprise verticals are investing in digital transformation initiatives, driving a digital era like never before. According to IDG’s 2018 Digital Business research, 89% of the organizations have adopted a digital-first strategy. 32% of IT decision makers have testified that digital transformation has already helped them to meet their revenue growth objectives. Enterprises today, of all sizes, are constantly finding new ways of being agile and remaining competitive in the face of extreme…
All-Cloud network Architecture helps global enterprises to enable digital transformation in campus network, multi-region branch, and IoT scenarios. Technologies continue to develop and innovate at an unprecedented rate, enterprise services will change rapidly, and network systems will change accordingly. We believe that these trends will change enterprise networks. Cloud-based Enterprise Network Management Extends from Small-Sized Branch Campuses to Medium- and Large-Sized Campuses Medium- and large-sized campuses with large networks and complex services want to use cloud management solutions to reduce operating expense (OPEX). Medium- and…
Multi-Cloud is one of the hottest trends for enterprises right now, but a common misconception can cost your organization millions if it isn’t addressed. IT leaders need to recognize that multi-cloud is an application strategy, not an infrastructure strategy. Adopting multiple clouds can deliver a better global footprint, provide unique data services, and avoid lock-in, but it can also fracture your applications, teams, and budget. Infrastructure-centric teams will have to spend significant cycles configuring, deploying, and scaling applications uniquely per cloud. A fragmented cloud…
A Request for Comment (RFC) on cloud computing adoption across the federal government has gone out and it says that it’s time to move from Cloud First to Cloud Smart. According to an article on NextGov.com, “The new strategy will update the Obama administration’s “Cloud First” policy, established in 2010, to better reflect where agencies and the technology are today. Seven years ago “was a time when cloud computing was still new,” Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent said during a roundtable with reporters Monday….
ONUG is a group representing enterprise users of network technology. Some of those users are the biggest names in the industry – names like FedEx (shipping and logistics), Gap (retail), Bank of America, Citi (financial services) and Kaiser Permanente (healthcare) that gather together twice a year to define the issues they are facing with technology, working with vendors to solve those issues. Companies attending the upcoming Fall 2018 event on October 22-23rd in New York City will discuss what is happening particularly in the SD-WAN…
SD-WAN is a popular topic on every blog, news site, and at every conference today, but much of the chatter deals with the implementation benefits. As ONUG’s own Nick Lippis mentions in his post about the top 5 topics IT will be talking about, SD-WAN is entering a new generation that’s focused on scale, security, and performance. With this new generation, IT needs a new understanding of how to monitor SD-WAN effectively for the long term, bearing in mind nuances around the technology and why…
In an increasingly digital world, digital certificates become the identity of a particular enterprise. Who trusts this digital identity? Almost every entity that is connected to the internet, including browsers and their underlying operating systems. Basically, certificates are like our passports; they are widely accepted as proof of identity. A digital (or “identity”) certificate is also used to securely exchange information over the internet using the entity’s public key. Due to this, digital certificates have garnered a significant amount of trust over the years, and…
