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Public clouds can be a blessing and a curse. They’re easy to use in limited ways, but hard to turn into a strategic resource. To make them an effective part of an enterprise infrastructure, there’s work that has to be done and it’s not insubstantial. Most enterprises are using multiple cloud providers through relationships that look more like accidents than careful planning. A development team started using one provider, while a partner had resources in another. A mobile app had its back end in a…
SDxCentral Research is pleased to announce the availability of our 2018 edition of our Next Gen Data Center Networking Report. After the enormous success of last year’s inaugural edition, we’ve been hard at work updating the report for this year. Cloud computing, software-defined networking (SDN), and network virtualization have radically changed the way data centers are being networked. Networking platforms need to be designed and built to handle the massive scale of today’s web and cloud applications – with flexible software control that can dynamically react to changing…
How many networks are you running today? And how many vendors are involved in your network infrastructure? Today’s IT teams are using whatever networks are the fastest and most cost-efficient to deliver applications. This includes public internet, MPLS, WAN, LAN, WiFi and more, all depending on business needs and locations. Public internet use has grown in enterprises because of its lower cost. There are tradeoffs, of course, like the lack of performance guarantees or much in the way of provider promises. As public internet use…
In the large enterprise, IT-delivered productivity has plateaued at automating the real or physical world workflows. In the past, IT could deliver productivity gains in the 4% range—a huge corporate and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) contribution. But IT professionals have squeezed all the juice from that orange. Today, most IT business leaders expect 1 to 0% productivity gain through traditional IT, such as large enterprise back office applications like CRM, databases, etc., and office productivity tools. At ONUG, it’s been known that productivity gains and…
The ONUG Community is in the vanguard of migrating of enterprise IT applications to hybrid multi-cloud environments. While the business benefits are real, this effort is not without its challenges. Hybrid multi-cloud infrastructure is cloud-scale, confronting IT managers with application performance management challenges beyond the capabilities of existing tools and techniques for traditional enterprise IT. The good news is that in this new era, IT managers can leverage the same cloud-scale technologies enabling this migration for ensuring application performance in what are proving to be…
The White House is taking aggressive action against China for illegal trade practices as well as intellectual property theft. It’s important to understand why and implement countermeasures to ensure your data is safe. Drive through middle America and you’ll see closed factories whose products are now manufactured in China. For the past few decades China has implemented an aggressive policy of stealing manufacturing technology and then providing zero interest loans to Chinese companies to re-create American products. The transfer of wealth to China from the…
As we celebrate the 30 year anniversary of one of the networking industry’s most prolific standards, 802.11, I can’t help but think about what new standards will drive the adoption of IT for the next 30 years. As we all know, standards are not only critical for getting new technologies going. They are also essential for widespread adoption, as they set the bar for quality, innovation, and multi-vendor interoperability. So, is there a new technology that promises to change the IT landscape forever, but requires…
A few ONUG Board members expressed that behind ONUG is a huge gold mine. What they mean is that the ONUG Community has a wealth of market knowledge and requirements to buy solutions to address digital transformation initiatives. It communicates aggregated requirements in many ways, via its working groups, fireside chats, session topics, keynote speakers, blog posts, proofs of concept, use case voting, etc. ONUG Conferences are the gathering place for IT business leaders of the largest enterprises in the Global 2000 with an annual…
To Secure the Digital Economy, a New Relationship between Industry and Federal Government Is Needed As the economy goes digital, are our current institutions, technologies, legislation, processes, etc., sufficient to secure our digital future? The headlines over the past 18 months make it clear that the answer is no. Many believe that we are on the precipice of a future where one or more Fortune 100 companies may have to file for bankruptcy due to the damage done by being cyber attacked if the status…
Why Should YOU, as an IT Professional, Become an ONUG Community Member? At a recent ONUG Board meeting, members shared that vendors are offering a 40 to 70% consideration/discount on infrastructure products and services when the vendor realizes they are an ONUG Community member. I was surprised to hear this. Others were surprised to hear that they were not the only ones receiving these discounts. Also surprising is that the discounting was not just from one vendor but from multiple vendors. This prompted a pretty healthy discussion about what…
