Automation is Required to Remove Siloes from Network Complexity

Today’s networks are becoming more complex and distributed, spanning physical, virtual, and cloud. Today’s enterprise IT systems and applications live on multiple and differing infrastructures, with each configured and managed by different systems that offer no common network model.

With unprecedented increases in network complexity and scale, automation is imperative to help IT teams deliver consistent network and service levels.

Shifting from Siloed to Connected Management

In order to address the span of all domains and increasing complexity, networks must be managed in a way that speaks the same language and can handle any existing or new technologies by moving from siloed point solutions to a connected, holistic view.

The Importance of Holistic Network Management

Historically, the network has been managed in silos with fragmented teams and data. Because of this, network teams have to utilize point solutions and siloed skills and teams across multiple domains and departments to manage it. This causes problems as no systems or domains are interacting with each other, putting the burden on manual effort which results in stale data by time it’s translated.

But, the network will have to managed in a more holistic approach where network teams will have one connected view of multiple network controllers, orchestrators, and systems with a rich set of API capabilities. They will adopt an automation solution that can handle the complexity and create automations that can work across any existing and future systems through an API-first approach.

By adopting network automation, organizations can leverage a unified solution that brings all of their existing infrastructure and tools together into a connected and automated environment in order to deliver reliable and consistent network and service levels.

Network Automation Solutions Should Embrace:

• Multi-Domain & Multi-Vendor Support – Organizations require a horizontal and vendor agnostic solution that connects all your systems and technologies for full end-to-end automation and orchestration to remove the siloes they’re currently stuck in.
• Rapid Integration – A fundamental need of connected management is the ability to easily and quickly integrate with anything in your ecosystem to provide a single, aggregated network API.
• Configuration Management – Network infrastructure is now distributed which means network teams must have a cohesive way to manage configuration, compliance, and remediation of all of their network devices, regardless of whether they are physical, virtual, or cloud-native.

Itential’s Approach to Multi-Domain Network Automation

At Itential, we understand the value and necessity of each network domain as well as why it’s imperative that they are all managed in a holistic manner. In fact, we build our platform on this very premise to ensure that network teams have the ability to automate across any network domain and network vendor, all while ensuring the entire network is in compliance.

The Itential Automation Platform is a truly vendor-agnostic low-code automation solution that allows network teams to integrate and federate their entire networks across any domain or any vendor. By allowing you to integrate with everything in your ecosystem, you can consolidate and extend the capabilities of individual CLI or API network and cloud management tools by providing a single, aggregated network API. Our Configuration Manager  application also provides a modern approach to network configuration and automated remediation to ensure your entire network remains in compliance, providing the foundation needed to have the trust and confidence for end-to-end automation of multi-domain and multi-vendor networks.

Our goal is to give teams the proper foundation and tools they need to automate across their entire networks, regardless of how complex it may be, how many domains it encompasses, or how many vendors it’s comprised of.