Elasticity and the Evolution of the Secure Cloud Ecosystem – Network Cloud Working Group Update

Supported by this Working Group’s recently published White Paper, they will discuss the importance of API’s to support secure, Cloud and Edge deployments with SD-WAN/SASE/5G, Zero Trust technologies.

Networking, Expo, Demonstrations

A Case Study in Modern Network Operations: How Goldman Sachs Uses a Digital Twin Platform to Improve Security, Agility and Reliability – Keynote Presentation by Forward Networks

The network team at Goldman Sachs has reduced application delivery time to under one hour, successfully scaled their automation stack, and reduced P1 outages by implementing Forward Enterprise across their entire network. Joshua Matheus, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, will detail the pain points that motivated the need for a single source of network truth, describe the process of selecting and implementing a digital twin, and outline the results that his network team has achieved since deployment.

Redefining Networking: The Move from Cost Center to Strategic Necessity – Keynote Presentation by AWS

A transition is underway in enterprise networking. Organizations are incorporating new, cloud-native, wide area networking services into their infrastructure because of their ability to create and configure connectivity on the fly—with elastic capacity and consumption-based pricing, bringing the scalability and economics of the cloud to network connectivity. Join Alec Peterson, Vice President of AWS Network Platform, and Jon Pruskowski, Sr. Manager of Cloud and Connectivity Engineering at Capital One, to learn about how AWS is helping customers transform their business by redefining networking from the…

A Case Study in Full Stack Transit that Simplifies Network Operations: How Enterprises Build a Multi-Cloud & Multi-Region Global Mesh to Interconnect Networks and Applications -Keynote Presentation by Prosimo

IaaS, PaaS, and application endpoints connect using different networking technologies in today’s multi-cloud world. Legacy networking approaches can’t scale to address inter-cloud needs. Growing native cloud capabilities from CSPs make adopting cloud-native services challenging; thus, enterprises cannot create a ‘Cloud InterConnect’ that understands the service + connectivity mapping across clouds. In this session, James Raulinaitis, Manager, Cloud Infrastructure Architect at Rakuten and Prosimo CEO Ramesh Prabagaran, dive into why consistent connectivity in the cloud is a growing concern and how to simplify multi-cloud deployments by…

Networking, Expo, Demonstrations

The Great Debate: Why “Remote Work” Doesn’t Work

Current thinking about the workforce is fundamentally flawed. Managers today either believe in the concept of RTO (return to the office), with employees back in the offices the way they were in 2019, or that WFH is here to stay, with office facilities shrinking dramatically or disappearing altogether. Find out why both views are wrong, and that the very concept of “remote work” doesn’t really… er… work. As usual in the Great Debate, Greg Ferro of Packetpushers and Johna Till Johnson of Nemertes not only…

How Does Your Multi-Cloud Journey Compare? – Sponsored by Juniper

Multi-cloud is complex. These ONUG companies share their multi-cloud journey from design and build to operational models. What worked and where are the challenges? Why are the challenges worth overcoming? How does multi-cloud benefit the developer’s ability to create greater business value? No matter where you are on your multi-cloud journey, you’re learning something new that you can take back to your company by attending this session.

Will IT Teams Exist in the Next 10 Years?

As we celebrate the 10th year of ONUG, we look toward the future of the IT organization. What will IT look like in the future? IT organizations are structured like the supplier side of the industry; that is, it’s a mirror image of the vendor landscape (compute, storage, networking, applications, security, …). Will the boundary between IT and business units disappear as corporate brands become ever more digital? Or will IT be populated with architects and designers as operations become automated and AI driven?

Conference Day 1 Wrap Up