ONUG Fall 2023: Record-Breaking Engagement and Pioneering Discussions in Network, Security & Cloud
ONUG Fall 2023, hosted by GSK in the vibrant heart of New York City on October 24th and 25th, concluded with unprecedented success, etching a new milestone in the Conference’s esteemed legacy. The event achieved the largest attendance in ONUG’s history. With attendee registration reaching nearly 1,400, ONUG Fall marked a significant 35% growth from the previous year. This was the 24th iteration of the ONUG Conference, which has now become an essential congregation for networking, security and cloud professionals, thought leaders and innovators across…
The Business Cycle of Tech Consumption: The Need for Design Patterns and New Operating Models
In recent years, the enterprise tech sector has witnessed a unique cycle of overconsumption. This surge in technological investments and acquisitions isn’t merely a trend; it reflects the rapid digitization of business processes and the indispensable nature of tech infrastructure today. But like any cycle, there is an inevitable shift towards optimization after this period of overconsumption. Today, businesses are pivoting towards grand transformation projects that fuse the cloud’s agility with on-prem resources, integrating Network, Security, OT, and IT into seamless platforms. These transformative steps…
Show Me the Money: Network Engineers Usher in a New Era of Cloud Integration
“Show me the money!” – The iconic line from Jerry Maguire isn’t just a catchy phrase; it embodies the pursuit of value and success. Much like the sports agent in the movie sought to revolutionize the industry, network engineers are revolutionizing the cloud landscape, ushering in a new era of operational models that bridge cloud infrastructure and on-prem solutions. Two New Operational Models The CCoE Model: Help Me Help You Just as Jerry Maguire used the phrase “help me help you” to show his clients…
Ladies and Gentlemen: Please Welcome the Cloud Network Engineer and Team
We are all in the process of building the most powerful communication infrastructure the world has seen. It is built upon a programmable network infrastructure that delivers on demand capacity and is cloud delivered. It’s the combination of cloud native and networking technologies. Why cloud native? Just look at 5G and the wide range of Network as a Service or NaaS offerings; they are built with cloud native technologies and APIs. This new infrastructure promises to provide choices and options for corporations to accelerate their…
It’s Time for No-Code Network Automation
For decades, armies of network engineers have been mired in one-off, brute force approaches to maintaining the network (the very core of their digital businesses), anchored by each individual engineer’s personal knowledge and experience. And that personal expertise has become a badge of honor worn by many of those tenured engineers, becoming a bit of folklore along the way, essentially an ‘art’ rather than science. This ‘art’ of network management tends to result in problem resolutions that extend remediation times, incur higher levels of human…
Application-Centric Networking for the Modern Enterprise Era
The modern enterprise has applications and services that are distributed across on-prem, multicloud and intelligent edge environments. By 2025, 75% of the enterprise data will be created and processed at the edge. The enterprise application users are themselves becoming mobile with the hybrid work paradigm gaining ground. These drastically shifting needs of applications and users are not addressable with traditional models of networking, including traditional SDN solutions. This leads to increased pressure on the NetOps and CloudOps teams. Without the ability to provision networking for…
The Growing and Evolving Role of Today’s Networking Professional
As businesses evolve to meet customer needs and satisfy the demands of a remote workforce, cloud computing adoption has grown at a record pace. With forecasted market size growth in cloud computing rising from 545.8B in 2022 to a market size of 1,240.9B in 2027, the demand for networking expertise is growing. Today’s enterprise requires networking professionals who have the skills to adeptly provision, implement, process, analyze and secure the cloud infrastructure. As cloud adoption soars, how has the role of the networking professional changed,…
Empowering Network Professionals to take on Responsibility of Cloud Networking
At a time when large enterprises are building out their digital infrastructures and facing added complexities, keeping ahead of networking innovations and new technologies is critical to the long term survival and health of today’s enterprise. Beyond leveraging the advances in networking solutions, keeping an organization’s network secure and operational is a top concern. According to Statista, a single network outage can cost an organization upwards of $301,000 per hour. Your networking organization needs up-to-date skills training that aligns with operational objectives to leverage…
Networking Is Becoming the Center of the IT Universe Again
There is a major shift taking place in the market toward networking teams becoming the center of the universe again–just like during the internet build phase. We’re seeing a new focus on the golden era of networking take shape at ONUG. Networking teams are becoming empowered as they take on the responsibility of cloud networking and other select cloud infrastructure domains from centralized cloud platform groups; some call this group the Cloud Center of Excellence or CCoE. Why are CCoE platform teams giving up networking…
The Year Ahead: Into 2023
2022 Was a Launching Pad for the Programmable Network Cloud Ecosystem at ONUG As a community, we have so many 2022 accomplishments to be proud of. We laid the groundwork for a new multi-cloud era where infrastructure and developer teams gain greater choice and options to deliver business value creation. We focused on multi-cloud connectivity, automation and security with a special emphasis on Network and Security Operational Centers (NOCs and SOCs) automation through AI/ML. We started to define the programmable network cloud market that promises…
