Navigating Your Enterprise Tech Career

Trying to figure out how to chart your career in IT? Learn from those who have navigated the industry in this unique ONUG mentoring session. Hear from ONUG board members and thought leaders who are at the top of their game as they share their career paths, choices and offer advice for entering their enterprise tech job market or expanding your career.

Public Cloud/SaaS Network Optimization & Resiliency

With remote workforce requirements plus increased consumption of all kinds of cloud services in the large enterprise, one huge question has been unanswered. How do you optimize and build resiliency into network cloud access? What are the new approaches to networking in the enterprise cloud era? This roundtable discussion session is exclusive for IT teams. No slides, just sharing best practices and challenges in a safe environment led by ONUG board members and thought leader. Come to learn from your peers and see if you’re…

How Networking is Being Integrated Into CI/CD Pipeline

As infrastructure becomes more and more software based, it’s starting to be integrated into development team’s software development lifecycle. How does networking become part of the CI/CD pipeline and managed like any other piece of software? This roundtable discussion session is exclusive for IT teams. No slides, just sharing best practices and challenges in a safe environment lead by ONUG board members and thought leader. Come to learn from your peers and see if you’re on the right track.

Network Segmentation and Enforcement via Policy as Code

There is much discussion around zero-trust as the new security model to protect workloads in the post perimeter security remote workforce world. But how does zero-trust work? How is network segmentation automated and policy enforced? Is there a new model that improves zero-trust configuration, orchestration and automation via policy as code. This roundtable discussion session is exclusive for IT teams and is to be a requirements gathering exercise. No slides, just sharing best practices and challenges in a safe environment led by ONUG board members…

Operationalizing Cloud Security in the SOC

Cloud Security is new to most SOCs. SOC teams are optimized for on-prem threat hunting, incidence response etc. As more workloads move to SaaS/IaaS/PaaS how do SOC teams integrate and operationalize cloud security? This roundtable discussion session is exclusive for IT teams. No slides, just sharing best practices and challenges in a safe environment led by ONUG board members and thought leaders. Come to learn from your peers and see if you’re doing it right.

O & A Demonstration, Expo, and Networking

Join us at the O & A Pavilion to identify tools that extend orchestration and automation across on- and off-prem deployments into hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

CSNF Demonstration, Networking, Expo

Join us at the CSNF Pavilion for a deep dive into the Cloud Security Notification Framework developed by ONUG and our Collaborative Partners. The ONUG Cloud Native Security Working Group focuses on developing playbooks for securing applications deployed in all manner of cloud infrastructure environments.

Not Impossible: New Models for Simplified Data Center Segmentation – Keynote Presentation by Pensando

Application security is increasingly seen as a board-level issue for many businesses today and while north-south security is a well understood problem, many IT departments are struggling to implement East-West security in a simple, efficient manner.  In this keynote Scott Stevens will discuss common security issues with todays network architectures, in addition to some new approaches to simplify segmentation of the data center network architecture to provide hyper-scale class technology and performance that is unparalleled. The flexibility of this approach enables you to determine how…

Gluware Intelligent Network Automation Accelerates Compliance Initiatives at First Republic Bank – Keynote Presentation by Gluware

The future of financial services involves staying ahead of risks and enabling new business opportunities. Get insights and best practices from Shane Jenkins, Senior Director, Data Center and Infrastructure Engineering, First Republic Bank, on how he and his teams are using Gluware intelligent network automation to address key priorities including configuration management, vulnerability management, lifecycle management, compliance, enhanced security, lowered operational costs, and more.

Solving Network Challenges for the Anywhere Enterprise – Keynote Presentation by Alkira

The modern enterprise environments are becoming increasingly distributed. Remote and hybrid users, single cloud and multi-cloud applications, and decentralized security models, are all putting an incredible stress on the network infrastructure. A new networking approach is needed to address the distributed needs of the cloud era, while avoiding complexity, high cost and skills gap. Join Amir Khan, a networking industry visionary, and CEO/Founder of Alkira to learn how enterprises can meet the demand for global, secure and elastic network that unifies users, sites and clouds…