The expansion into the hybrid and multi-cloud world means that networking teams are tasked with managing ever-changing variables (apps, data, users, and devices) that span every domain of a business. As a result, teams must work together to tackle everything from the network implications of public cloud and SaaS providers.
As managing hybrid and multi-cloud environments increases complexity even further, automation is becoming increasingly necessary to enable many next-generation experiences.
Shifting From Siloed to Integrated Teams
In order to fully utilize multi-cloud and edge services, teams must find a way to work together so that all domains can be managed as one in order to drive network automation through a programmable network.
The Importance of a Single Team
In today’s current landscape, the network and cloud teams operate in silos and they have little to interaction with each other. This causes disconnect and severely slows down the time to complete any network activity.
The only way to truly succeed shifting to the cloud, network and cloud teams must integrate into a single team and have knowledge and access to each domain through an automation solution that allows for the integration with a wide range of cloud services and cloud service providers.
By adopting network automation, organizations can break down the barriers between cloud and network teams through a shared platform that facilitates the integration and automation needs across both teams in a common language.
Network Automation Solutions Should Embrace
- Support for Multi-Cloud & Hybrid-Cloud Networking – The growing demand for cloud networking services makes it essential for a solution to enable network engineers and cloud architects to automate across multi-cloud networks.
- Reusable Automations – Merged teams also requires a centralized platform that empowers each team to rapidly build automations that provide immediate value and are available for other teams to leverage with their own work.
- Role Based Access Control – The merging of teams requires flexibility and control over permissions to components and data across all cloud environments, ensuring each user is able to access and automate what’s needed.
Itential’s Approach to Breaking Down Silos
One of our biggest principles at Itential is ensuring teams have the tools they need to expand automation participation across teams and domains, without having to reskill teams. The only way to truly adopt network automation across today’s hybrid and multi-cloud networks is to ensure that both network and cloud teams can work together to automate.
The Itential Automation Platform was built to close this gap between network engineers and cloud architects. Our platform provides the ability to capture network tribal knowledge so automation efforts can be expanded past one engineer’s own scripts and reused across the entire organization. By leveraging Itential’s Pre-Built Collection, network and cloud teams can easily get started on any cloud networking use case with our Pre-Built Automations as well as easily integrate into any networking or cloud technology with our Pre-Built Integrations.
Our goal is to give teams the tools and technology they need to truly bridge the gap between network and cloud teams so they can work together as one to help achieve successful automation initiatives for their entire organization.
Rich Martin
Director of Technical Marketing ‐ Itential
Rich Martin is the Director of Technical Marketing at Itential. Previously, Rich has worked at several networking vendors as a both a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer and Systems Engineering Manager but started his career with a background in software development and Linux. He has a passion for automation in the networking domain, and at Itential he helps networking teams to get started quickly and move forward successfully on their network automation journey.
