Today, Itential is thrilled to share the news that our flagship product, the Itential Automation Platform is now available as a fully managed services offering. By extending the powerful capabilities of our cloud-native platform to a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model, we’re making it even easier for enterprise organizations to reduce the operational burden and accelerate network automation initiatives
With an increased acceptance of hybrid and remote work, enterprises are rapidly adopting cloud-managed networking (CMNs) to enable centralized configuration and management of their network infrastructure. In fact, Gartner expects over 10,000 data center customers to be using CMN by 2023, up from about 250 in 2020. Recent Futuriom end-user research also confirmed demand for software-based network offerings from the cloud. In a recent survey of 120 enterprise end users, 92.5% of respondents said that value-added SaaS and security offerings play an important role in their consideration of managed services such as software-defined networking in a wide area network (SD-WAN).
“The networking market is clearly moving toward a software-driven environment that leverages Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which Itential understood very early in the game,” said Scott Raynovich, Chief Research Officer at Futuriom Research. “Itential’s launch of its SaaS-based offering to automate and integrate networking capabilities is an exciting demonstration of leadership and makes cloud networking and network automation more user-friendly for enterprises.”
The Itential Automation Platform provides a low-code interface that enables network teams to maintain network compliance, reduce manual operations, and simplify network management associated with automating physical and cloud network infrastructure. Now available as a SaaS offering, additional benefits include easy extensibility and consumption for enterprise organizations, a decreased total cost of ownership (TCO), reduction in operational burden, and accelerated time to value.
Key enterprise features of the Itential Automation Platform include:
- Automated configuration and compliance for hybrid, multi-cloud networks.
- Out of the box integrations with hundreds of IT systems such as Infoblox, ServiceNow, Jira, Splunk, etc.
- Pre-Built Automations for top enterprise use cases such as software upgrades, device onboarding, golden configuration compliance, and automated remediation.
- Low-code Automation Studio for rapid design and development of automated workflows.
“As organizations continue to shift and expand their operations in the cloud, they realize the additional support needed to ensure their networks are operating at their best,“ said Chris Wade, CTO, Itential. “Properly analyzing this need, the cloud-native Itential Automation Platform can now provide customers with push-button deployments of our products, not only making it much easier to get up and running with network automation but helping to make it a priority for organizational growth.”
If you’re interested in getting started with a free trial of the Itential Automation Platform, click here to request trial access or register for our upcoming webinar, “Introduction to the Itential Network Automation Platform,” where we will walk you through a live demo of our solution and how to easily get started.
Kristen H. Rachels
Chief Marketing Officer ‐ Itential
Kristen serves as Chief Marketing Officer for Itential, leading their go-to-market strategy and execution to accelerate the adoption and expansion of the company’s products and services.
