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Bringing DevOps to the Network: Obstacles and Opportunities

Enterprise networks are complex ecosystems that encompass multi-cloud, multi-domain computing. While networks become more complex, the expectations remain the same: 24/7 availability Optimum performance Comprehensive security How are IT personnel to maintain networks without disruptions in service, especially when there is no such thing as office hours? Does DevOps have a place in modernizing network management? Will automation play a part in upgrading the network? Possible answers to these questions were presented at ONUG Fall 2020 in a panel discussion moderated by Michael Clark, Chair…

ONUG Working Groups: The Orchestration and Automation Working Group

ONUG recently hosted a webinar to highlight the progress of our Working Groups. The Orchestration and Automation (O&A) Working Group was the third to present what they’ve been working on, and what their goals are for the future. Group Co-Chairs Brian Silverman of McKesson, Michael Haugh of Gluware, and David Hegenbarth of Pliant led the discussion. You can watch the entire webinar here, or keep reading for a summary of the O&A Working Group’s objectives, priorities, and future plans.  The group’s first whitepaper was a…

The New Normal of Work from Anywhere – Is Your Network Ready?

The year 2020 has firmly established one thing about how people work—remote work is here to stay, and companies will need to enable remote employees as a norm and not an exception. The year has had a profound impact, starting with business continuity plans in the early days of the global pandemic but evolving to fundamental rethinking at many enterprises of the way business is conducted. Social distancing guidelines have created a decentralized, remote work force and judging by data from a recent Gallup poll…

ONUG Digital Live 2020

Automation in the Age of the Remote Workforce: Terracon and Gluware Show the Way Throughout the years at ONUG, Gluware has consistently shown how it partners with customers. It is unique in that its customers advocate for Gluware in public, which is a difficult internal process to undergo. But time and time again, Gluware’s customers do. They do it because they are delighted with the outcome, because Gluware delivers what it promises. Jamie Hughes, Infrastructure Architect at Terracon, delivered a keynote during ONUG Digital Live this…

ONUG 2020 Working Group Objectives Coming Into Focus

The ONUG Working Groups kicked off 2020 in mid-January. Since then, participants have been meeting weekly to discuss the specific enterprise cloud adoption challenges that each working group will tackle this year. A blend of enterprise users and vendors in the ONUG Community have participated in the weekly calls, with users articulating their issues and concerns, which is critical input for identifying the set of use cases that each working group will tackle. There is still work to be done on prioritizing use cases, but…

The ONUG Working Groups: Attacking Hybrid Multi-Cloud Challenges From Multiple Angles

Working groups serve as ONUG’s vehicle for generating industry change. Members of the ONUG Community – IT professionals, vendors, service providers and solutions integrators – join together to address the wide range of challenges enterprises must overcome on their journey to digital transformation. Enterprise IT application deployment in complex hybrid multi-cloud environments presents users with a wide range of entirely new technical, business and organizational challenges that present significant barriers to adoption. The ONUG Working Groups are tasked with addressing these challenges, which each working…

Cloud and Containerization Trends Are Reshaping Digital Infrastructures

Cloud and containerization of infrastructure functions are enormous trends that will continue to reshape enterprise digital platforms. Containers are even expected to completely reshape the idea of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Enterprises that are built on or moved their core business functionality to digital platforms have become prevalent over the last few years. Companies that want to stay in the game need to be willing to adopt new platform strategies and risk their revenue streams by moving closer toward…

ONUG Working Groups: The Philosophy for 2019 is “Less is More”

The second round of ONUG Working Group calls took place last week, with each group engaged in the process of identifying pressing use cases that need to be addressed with the goal of articulating a clear set of requirements that are unambiguous and actionable. The philosophy for 2019 is “less is more.” Each group is bounding use cases to a straightforward hybrid multi-cloud environment with sufficient diversity to flesh out critical requirements but not so complex that the exercise turns into “boiling the ocean.” Well-bounded…

IT Security Organizational Model and Culture Needs to Change

With so many large-scale data breaches that occurred in the last couple of years, we must ask ourselves: what does it take to improve the current cybersecurity processes and how to detect vulnerabilities and attacks on time? In reality, many people still think of cybersecurity as a specialized career, which is not something an average person should know or learn about. We live in an age where we increasingly manage our lives (both personal and business) digitally. That is the main reason why anyone should…

ONUG Working Groups Are Building Hybrid Multi-Cloud Reference Solutions

A series of ONUG Working Group calls, exclusively for IT executives, kicked off last week to share use case requirements and organize their work leading up to ONUG Spring on May 7th and 8th in Dallas. Some 80 IT executives registered to participate in the working groups to collaborate in an effort to build a set of hybrid multi-cloud reference solutions. IT executives from Ford, eBay, PwC, Bank of America, Citigroup, Apple, GE, McGraw Hill Education, Xcel Energy, First Data, Intuit, Gap, Paddy Power Betfair,…