Network Cloud Demonstration

The Network Cloud Working Group will present various use cases that demonstrate the business value of Elastic Network functionality.  Learn how to optimize your Cloud Ecosystem, improve your time to market for network deployments, reduce OPEX by adopting cloud-like consumption based network models and apply zero trust principles to your network architectures and strategies. Ultimately you will learn the importance and relevance of effective Cloud Network Edge architectures so your business can adapt to the rapidly changing landscape of service offerings.

Taking a Holistic Approach: Align Your Organization for the Convergence of Network and Security – Comcast Business Main Stage Keynote

Traditionally, IT organizations have treated networking and security as separate priorities. However, a siloed approach is not working for businesses anymore.  Interoperability between dynamic network elements is essential. As is protecting transactions, applications, and workflows between devices that are constantly in motion.  Networks and security must evolve together to meet business demands. Learn more about Comcast Business’ perspective on network and security convergence, and the importance of an integrated approach within your businesses IT strategy.  Discover how Comcast Business and Masergy can help businesses, from…

Enabling AI/ML within the 4th Gen Data Center – AMD Pensando Main Stage Keynote

Current (3rd Generation) data center architectures lack a simple approach to include ML/AI in their network and security operations.  This session will look at how the 4th Generation Data Center Architecture fundamentally changes this by providing the telemetry required by different ML/AI solutions.  We will explore how these solutions improve network and security operations.

Network-Powered Digital Transformation in Healthcare – Gluware Main Stage Keynote

The automated network is the platform for digital transformation. See how industry leader and visionary, Siji Atekoja, Deputy CIO/CTO at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, is utilizing Gluware intelligent network automation to transform operations, attract top talent, and achieve distinction and preeminent rank among national healthcare centers.

Global Clean Energy Equipment Manufacturer Dramatically Simplifies Cloud Networking – Alkira Main Stage Keynote

In this session, hear from one of the world’s leading manufacturers of clean energy equipment and learn firsthand how they overcame cloud complexity, rapidly achieved segmentation and microsegmentation goals, and empowered their company to take on the cloud era with confidence using Alkira’s easy to use, revolutionary cloud networking platform. With Alkira, the organization’s IT leadership was able to reduce latency, increase performance, and gain unprecedented new levels of visibility into every aspect of their networking infrastructure, including a vast sprawl of IoT sensors and devices.

Orchestration and Automation Demonstration

The O&A Working Group will present various use cases that demonstrate the business value of O&A features that exist within the ONUG O&A Maturity Model, which runs from task-based, mostly scripted automation through to AIOps. Learn about “HyperAutomation” and the strategies needed to achieve Hyperautomation as well as the business benefits of achieving the ultimate goal of AI/ML – driven orchestration.

Managing Risk and Automation with Policy as Code

Policy as code is the formalization of business intent and codification into software that can evaluate across multiple cloud providers and on-prem equipment. The code enforces policies within the infrastructure, with appropriate guardrails and within compliance guidelines and is foundational to the design and delivery of an automated continuous control framework Given the growing strategic importance of policy as code, to our members, the ONUG Collaborative established a Policy as Code Working Group during the summer. In this session, IT leaders who provided input to…

CSNF Starter Kit Training

The Cloud Security Notification Framework (CSNF) Starter kit is ready for you and your SecOps teams.  Come join this session hosted by Triggermesh and learn how to consume the starter kit and put it to use for your SecOps and DevSecops communities. Syllabus: You will become familiar with ONUG’s CSNF Github ecosystem.  You will learn about the details of the CSNF Canonical Data Model format.  You will learn the power of normalizing multiple Cloud Service Provider alert messages into a common schema that will allow you to…

Will Multi-Cloud Deliver For You?

Enterprise computing is multi-cloud computing; it’s hard, complex but promises control and choice for developer and infrastructure teams. Infrastructure teams are to make life easier for developers to write applications that deliver corporate digital value. Multicloud delivers the widest pallet of tools and constructs, but can developers use them all? Is multicloud too hard or are we just at the early stages of tool and operational model development? In this session we explore the realities of multicloud architecture implementation and operations.

Keynote: Being Digital at Raytheon Technologies

Raytheon Technologies is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. It is one of the largest aerospace, intelligence services providers, and defense manufacturers in the world by revenue and market capitalization generating 64.39 billion USD (2021) revenues and employing some 174,000. Raytheon Technologies is an engineering powerhouse with some 60,000 engineers, which is more than double the size that Amazon employees! Raytheon is digitally transforming every aspect of its business from…