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by Nick Lippis In Global 2000 companies, IT has organized primarily around silos of technologies. There are different silos: the network, storage, application, server/host, virtualization, security groups and more. This model became popular in the mid 1980s when mainframe computing gave way to mini- and personal computers. Remember Apple’s 1984 Superbowl commercial? Big brother wasn’t just IBM; it was the IT organizational model that created huge barriers of entry for new IT products and ideas from enterprise corporations. But as the mainframe market disaggregated and the IT…
by Toby Redshaw At the end of 2015 some CEOs are going to be happy about their results. Others not so much. Underlying both the good and the bad will be a clear bifurcation between those that get and execute modern IT and those that don’t. The outcomes will be stark and the penalties brutal. This bifurcation will just be beginning and the gap between the have’s and have not’s will continue to grow. Here’s what the bifurcation is, how it came about and how…
by Mike Cohen As demands increase for speed, scale, security, agility, and flexibility in cloud environments, a policy driven approach is quickly becoming an important area of development in the open source community. Today’s cloud infrastructure is often overwhelmed by inputs from different teams with differing objectives: developers who want to quickly and easily deploy their applications, infrastructure teams who need to deliver on operational requirements, and business teams looking to impose governance, cost, or compliance constraints. The end result is a system that muddles…
by Stefan Dietrich We are entering a time when network performance and security become critical assets to the enterprise. It is no longer within the territory of individual enterprises, but reaches proportions of larger scale. Overcoming political obstacles to come together for the good of the larger goal has become critical.
by Kurt Marko The concept of SDN is evolving and adapting to address real business needs put forth by users. Kurt Marko, Forbes technology and business contributor, writes more here.
by ONUG Board of Directors As SDN makes its way from concept to product to trial, most IT architects are building a long list of demands, but seeing relatively few practical solutions. To date, the primary real use cases have come from Internet behemoths such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook. And so, on one hand, architects can take heart that if SDN concepts and implementations work for these hyper-scale Internet companies, chances are they’ll do just fine for those with networks of a more…
by Srini Seetharaman The ONUG Fall 2013 conference highlighted a clear need for SDN in several domains of use. Most of today’s SDN vendors are targeting the need for network virtualization in cloud data centers. This status quo, however, leaves lingering needs in several other domains, including branch office networking, service chaining of L4-L7 appliances, and enterprise WAN. What the industry needs are reference implementations of SDN applications that address these open problems and improve the current mode of operation.
by Nick Lippis A quick look at the board of directors of the Open Network User Group will make it obvious that ONUG is driven by some of the biggest IT Business Leaders of networking technology in the world. Leading financial, insurance, retail, and logistics companies are all active members of ONUG. That alone sets it apart from the many other organizations with “open” in their names. In keeping with its goals, all ONUG events are intentionally kept to a manageable size so that members…
By Ernest Lefner AT&T distributed 75 press releases in September and I admit I don’t normally pay attention to these announcements, but there was one that caught my eye last week: “AT&T Launches Supplier Domain 2.0 — Next-Generation Supplier Program Facilitates AT&T’s Rapid Transformation to an Open, Cloud-based Network; New Vendor Relationships to be Added.” The press release addressed AT&T’s plans to simplify and scale its network by:
by Marc Cohn One of the particularly noteworthy aspects of the journey towards Open Networking is the strong pull from the end-users who stand to benefit most. Unlike many standards initiatives, Software-Defined Networking – the catalyst for network transformation – enjoys broad support from the enterprise to data center operators, through the carriers.
