Keynote: Dynamic Edge Segmentation: Insights into GSK’s Hyperconnected Smart Manufacturing

Digital transformation and Industry 4.0 drive radical change in OT (Operational Technology) environments, creating ‘hyperconnected’ process control systems fully embedded into a cloud-enabled, integrated supply chain. Total connection of OT enables significant uplift in process efficiency, flexibility and optimization, and the market for OT and related IoT and Cyber-Physical devices is expected to be 5x the market for IT devices. Integrating these assets into the broader corporate infrastructure presents unique challenges for which GSK has developed a new technology termed Dynamic Edge Segmentation. Through this…

Fortinet Proof of Concept: Fortinet Cloud Secure: Dynamic Cloud Security PoC

Fortinet Security responds dynamically to changes in the cloud environment and interacts with cloud native tools to effect changes required to maintain a continuous posture of protection and prevention. Join the PoC to witness Fortinet Security Automation in action. This PoC includes dynamic responses to cloud environment changes through FortiGate Automation Stitch triggers and actions, utilizing Webhooks to launch Cloud functions to securely segment and route, cloud process and traffic.

Broadcom Proof of Concept: Prove Your Innocence 90% Faster with End-to-End Active Network Testing

Organizations make decisions to move apps and services to the cloud without fully taking into account the impact on end-user experience. IT is still responsible for performance even though hybrid infrastructures introduce more physical and logical distance between users and apps. Traditional monitoring approaches can’t provide the insights required to isolate issues for cloud apps and networks that run your business. Broadcom is a leader in the use of active monitoring–both web and network–to reduce the mean time to resolution for IT teams. Join us…

Riverbed Proof of Concept: Harnessing the Power of Unified Observability: Actionable Insights and Intelligent Automation

Riverbed Alluvio captures full-fidelity user experience, application, and network performance data on every transaction across the digital ecosystem. It then contextually correlates disparate data streams (including third party data) to quickly provide actionable insights and automate investigative workflows, empowering staff at all skill levels to solve problems fast. This presentation will discuss the benefits of a unified observability platform that automates the best practices of IT experts, empowers staff at all levels to accelerate problem-solving, eliminates data silos, reduces alert fatigue, and avoids resource-intensive war…

AutoCloud Proof of Concept: Automating Your Automation

In this session, we’ll examine how AutoCloud can help companies adopt and scale Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by automatically generating secure, production IaC using low-code and AI automation. Transform entire cloud environments into Terraform code with the click of a button and quickly create an entire marketplace of self-service cloud development capabilities.

Selector AI Proof of Concept: Enhanced Observability and Correlation for Next Generation Networks with Selector AI

Selector AI is an operational intelligence platform that automates anomaly detection and helps diagnose outages for hybrid-cloud connectivity and applications. Selector AI collects data from heterogeneous data sources, applies an ML-based data analytics approach, and provides actionable multi-dimensional insights by correlating metrics and events. Our customers can collaborate and share insights on various messaging platforms (Slack, Microsoft Teams) using search-driven querying with a conversational chatbot experience.

Qrypt Proof of Concept: Quantum-Secure Multi-Cloud Deployments

As quantum computing advances, mitigating data harvesting between cloud environments connected by networks under adversarial control becomes increasingly urgent. Qrypt addresses this risk by providing easily deployable and simple quantum-secure solutions for data transmissions between cloud providers and geographically distributed enterprises. Our live POC session will discuss quantum risk in detail and showcase Qrypt’s ability to protect geographically separated, multi-cloud networks effectively and seamlessly. We will highlight our successful deployment with Megaport, a leading Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions provider. This use-case demonstrates Qrypt and Megaport’s collaboration…

Software Bill of Material: A Three Step Plan for Maximum Effectiveness

Join Steve Westmoreland in an insightful ONUG session on the “Software Bill of Material (SBOM): A Three-Step Plan for Maximum Effectiveness.” Dive deep into the intricacies of SBOM, learn actionable strategies for inventorying, monitoring, and integrating software components, and engage directly with a leading expert to enhance your organization’s software management and security practices. Agenda: -Introduction -Welcome and introduction by host: Brief on the importance of the Software Bill of Materials in today’s digital age. -Presentation by Steve Westmoreland a. Understanding the SBOM – What…

ONUG Collaborative Closing Plenary

The ONUG Collaborative provides a unique forum for enterprise IT consumers and suppliers that facilitates peer-to-peer engagement and direct interaction with suppliers to drive thought leadership and industry change in the Cloud Era. The Collaborative working groups provide a vehicle for market enablement in which vendors, service providers, solution integrators and enterprise adopters work collectively to generate actionable outcomes and deliverables that help IT professionals break through barriers blocking the adoption of new cloud networking and security technologies. Attend this closing plenary session to learn…

Keynote – NaaS: The Evolution from Private Routed WANs to “The Network Is The Cloud”

With the digital age came an exponential transformation in compute and networking landscapes. As enterprises shifted from bare metal servers to server virtualization, and ultimately, to cloud-based IaaS and PaaS, enterprise networking experienced a parallel evolution. We progressed from traditional router-based WAN connections and embraced Software Defined Networking (SDN). However, the journey doesn’t stop there. Today, we stand at the cusp of a new era where the Network becomes the Cloud, paving the way for Network Cloud services. This pivotal transformation brings forth the emergence…