Broadcom Academy: Industry-Awarded Triage for Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Health and Performance

DX NetOps outstanding overall scores for functionality, particularly for its network discovery functions, alarming and alert management, troubleshooting workflows, visualization, and reporting capabilities” – 2021 EMA Radar Report for Network Performance Management. Join this session to learn why Broadcom was recently awarded the highest vendor strength score and was selected as having the best alert and alarm management for modern network reliability. With over 80% of enterprises deploying SD-WAN, this technology promises to reduce costs, enhance security and streamline application delivery. But do you really…

Cloud Independence the Open Source Way

For the past few years Target has been stitching together open source solutions to build the infrastructure that would deliver it cloud independence. That is, they are now able to connect to any cloud with a common set of operational and development tools yielding unparalleled options and choice as they deliver digital value to their consumers, suppliers and partners. In this session, Target shares what and how they build an open approach to cloud independence. We’ll get a great demo too with time for Q&A.

Gluware Open Session: Top Ten Ways Gluware Network Automation Enhances Security

As the global impact of network security breaches continue to grow in scale and scope, IT teams struggle to respond. Forward-thinking organizations apply many standards (including CISA recommended mitigation actions) to address the challenge and use the Gluware® Intelligent Network Automation software solution to quickly implement critical fixes and prevention techniques. Gluware’s intelligent, off-the-shelf automation software delivers the features, simplicity and reliability organizations seek today to manage their complex, multi-vendor networks and enhance their time to value. In this session, learn the top ten ways…

Gluware Academy: De-risking Network Changes with Intelligent Network Automation

Experience the Gluware suite of applications in action executing network lifecycle capabilities including network discovery, inventory, config drift, config audit, config management and OS management. After the overview of the Gluware suite, a demonstration of the working details of using Config Modeling to create and deploy Golden Configs will be covered in two stages. First a declarative, static deployment of corporate “globals”, followed by an integration of dynamic content into that deployment. This enables users to avoid outages by blending specific business logic in a…

Cato Networks Open Session: SD-WAN for the Office vs. SASE for Everywhere

Even before COVID-19, Gartner predicted that by 2024, more than 60% of SD-WAN customers will have implemented SASE, compared to 35% in 2020. Why? Because the digital business requires enterprise-grade security and optimized connectivity to everyone, everywhere; and IT can’t deliver this with just SD-WAN, global crisis or not. Network solutions designed to support only people in the office are no longer relevant. Unlike SD-WAN, SASE was designed in the cloud, as an agile network infrastructure to support the way business is done today. SASE delivers…

Software-Defined Private 5G for Industry 4.0

As enterprises embark on their Industry 4.0 vision, private 5G network connectivity will be needed to connect enterprise assets to the edge cloud, making it possible to apply AI/ML to business processes. Private 5G provides resilient high performance, low latency mobile wireless connectivity, with assured coverage and strong security. These features are essential for connecting hundreds or thousands of IIoT sensors, cameras, robotics and more to the cloud, to give connected industry, smart warehouses and automated manufacturing competitive advantage in their digital transformation journeys.

The Sharper Edge: Four Key Ingredients to a Multi-Service Cloud Virtualization and Edge Compute Infrastructure – Sponsored by Ciena

Enterprises across multiple industry sectors are making the shift from a hardware-centric to a software-centric IT infrastructure to increase operational agility, reduce cost and ensure that employees have ‘always-on’ access to the data, content, and ensure that employees have “always-on” access to applications they need to do their jobs—regardless of their physical location.  This new software-centric, “virtualized” infrastructure combines network connectivity, digital business applications and multi-tenant, multi-cloud integration at the remote branch premises edge, the local data center edge, or the cloud edge.  But the…

Welcome to ONUG Fall 2021: Closing the Enterprise Cloud 2.0 Gaps

Enterprise Cloud 2.0: The Future of Enterprise Computing

Cloud service providers offer convenience. Need to scale up capacity or scale it down? They deliver. Need to extend your on-prem workload controls to public cloud providers? They don’t deliver. Thus the paradox; you hear, “why aren’t you using the public cloud, as they offer so many conveniences?” At the same time, you hear, “why are you using a public cloud as they don’t offer controls needed to protect your brand?” In this keynote session, Nick Lippis and Ernest Lefner introduce Enterprise Cloud 2.0 and…

Cloud Right–The Connective Tissue of Today’s Enterprise

Enterprise Cloud 2.0 can empower IT leaders to build the kind of digital enterprise that delivers transformative value, but only by putting business results ahead of technical outcomes by making the right investments in the right order and executing them flawlessly. We call this “Cloud Right™” and it represents the best way to take advantage of the hybrid, multicloud world we live in and turn it to your advantage. In this keynote, Rens will share his experiences and views on transforming, building, running and securing…