Itential Named a Top Innovator in Cloud & Communications Infrastructure by Futuriom

For the fourth year in a row, Itential has been named to the Futuriom 50, an annual report by leading technology research firm analyzing cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, and networking technology and services, Futuriom. Each year, they identify the most important technology and market trends driving cloud infrastructure and name the strongest companies innovating in the market.

This year’s report highlights the importance of hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure as an increasing number of large global companies are embracing hybrid environments and looking to optimize their infrastructure for distributed application deployment.

Hybrid and multi-cloud strategies require new approaches to efficiently manage distributed infrastructure — as the report states, organizations will invest in solutions that can “automate and integrate multi-cloud and hybrid platforms.” This need has given rise to the infrastructure as code (IaC) and platform engineering movement, which involves an evolution of tools, practices, and mindset in order to “streamline management and visibility of infrastructure.”

Itential is featured as a top innovator in the report because our integration and orchestration capabilities allow organizations to “operationalize and automate complex network configuration and networking tasks” across different environments — public cloud, private cloud, and on-premises. Our unique capabilities ensure organizations can connect with and orchestrate across their infrastructure no matter its complexity, serving a crucial role in network and infrastructure transformation.

58% of survey respondents for the Futuriom 50 said they were primarily targeting hybrid deployments, compared to only 26% who were actively targeting the public cloud (17% weren’t sure). The report indicates that there’s a “growing realization” that, while public cloud has a key role to play, it isn’t the best or most economical way to deploy every enterprise application. Plus, important new trends (most notably AI) may rely on data that’s owned by a customer and/or gathered from the edge.

As a result, there’s a growing movement to embrace hybrid strategies. In the past, hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure was often viewed as a reluctant necessity or a temporary situation, but as cloud strategies have matured, it’s become clear that “multi-cloud and hybrid cloud are the wave of the future.”

With hybrid and multi-cloud environments, though, comes new levels of infrastructure complexity. For organizations to deploy networking infrastructure quickly and efficiently in complex cloud environments, there is a growing need for solutions that connect these different environments seamlessly.

Automation across multiple clouds is vital for organizations to be able to efficiently manage hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure, especially at scale.

It’s not enough to only use domain-specific automations for individual changes. When a developer on an application team requests an infrastructure service that requires multiple changes across multiple clouds or on-prem network domains, that entire process must be automated, start to finish. That’s where orchestration comes into play.

Orchestration is the practice of stitching together individual automations, coordinating them to build an end-to-end process that can be delivered to an end user. Orchestration capabilities support infrastructure as code practices and platform engineering strategies: enabling organizations to standardize their infrastructure services across diverse environments and achieve what’s known as productizing infrastructure. Learn more about productization and self-service in this Packet Pushers episode.

With productized infrastructure, easily consumable via self-service for application developers and line of business teams, organizations can transform how their complex infrastructure supports business processes and enables innovation. Services can be delivered like products for developers to request and receive instantly — all from the same internal developer platform, regardless of the underlying infrastructure.

However, to achieve this visionary service delivery model, organizations must find solutions that operationalize integration capabilities across all their infrastructure and enable orchestration and self-service capabilities.

Itential is the industry’s leading platform for multi-domain integration and orchestration. It’s the only infrastructure automation and orchestration platform built to support hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, and its capabilities enable large organizations to achieve the benefits of hybrid and multi-cloud quickly and easily.

These unique capabilities are why the Futuriom 50 named Itential as a key company in cloud infrastructure for the fourth consecutive year, highlighting the strength of our technology for integration across multiple clouds and network domains.

This year’s Futuriom 50 indicates that organizations are looking to hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure architectures to support flexibility, cost control, and agility in terms of how applications are deployed and how infrastructure is consumed. But to see those benefits, it’s vital that organizations adopt solutions like Itential that can connect these disparate environments, enabling end-to-end orchestration to support forward-looking strategies like infrastructure as code and platform engineering.

This year’s Futuriom 50 indicates that organizations are looking to hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure architectures to support flexibility, cost control, and agility in terms of how applications are deployed and how infrastructure is consumed. But to see those benefits, it’s vital that organizations adopt solutions like Itential that can connect these disparate environments, enabling end-to-end orchestration to support forward-looking strategies like infrastructure as code and platform engineering.