by Nick Lippis ONUG offers, bar none, the best indicator of what’s real in the industry. At UBS headquarters in September of 2013, the ONUG Board met to define the major themes and narrative for ONUG Fall 2013 hosted by JPMorgan Chase. This was during the hype of OpenFlow, OpenDayLight and OpenStack. During that meeting, the ONUG Board realized that none of these projects would be game changers and that ONUG would chart a practical course that enabled the ONUG Community to embrace freedom, choice,…
by Nick Lippis The public voice of IT business leaders has been muted over the past two decades. Part of this was due to corporate PR, legal, and mitigation teams forbidding IT executives from speaking in public. Part of the cause was the lack of forums available for IT leaders to collaborate and exchange successes and challenges. Part of the cause was old fashion thinking about what was strategic. But ONUG changed all that and its implications will be wide spread! Consider this a start….
by Nick Lippis Gone are the days when enterprise security was defined by physical firewalls and IPS devices placed in a DMZ and programmed with rules that either allowed or denied access. It’s not that these security appliances are not needed or important anymore, it’s just that they are legacy, hardware-based, inflexible gatekeeper devices that were build for an older world and application portfolio. Network security, like all hardware-based appliances, is rapidly being disaggregated from hardware and software so that security services can be applied…
by Nick Lippis The two largest barriers of entry of the software-defined revolution are skills and tools. The Software-Defined Enterprise will not become a reality unless there are new monitoring and analytic tools as well as new infrastructure DevOps engineers with the skills to put the tools to work. At ONUG, we’ve seen the lack of uptick in data center overlay deployments for this very reason; there is currently no visibility of underlay/overlay and especially trouble event causality. And don’t expect VMware, Docker, Amazon, Microsoft,…
