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The State of Network Automation from a Network Engineer’s Perspective
When it comes to the networking industry, many of the same challenges are still vexing network engineers and slowing down network progress. To ensure growth, we must appreciate these challenges' depth and realize this well runs very deep. Here I discuss the nature of, and solution to, network automation today from a network engineer's perspective
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Accelerating Network Programmability with APIs
Applications Programming Interfaces (APIs) have been a driving force of innovation in networking over the past two decades. This trend is now accelerating with the expansion of cloud infrastructure and API programmability, which will enable anybody to manifest networking functionality into applications with the press of a button. Before we delve into how the potent
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The Three Phased Approach to Evaluating Network Automation Use Cases
As network automation moves from infancy to adolescence, organizations are starting to ask important questions about the impact of initial automation implementations: Did we gain the efficiencies we expected? How much time/money/effort did we save? How much should we expect to save? At the same time, network automation initiatives have moved from group level automations
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Why Attempts at IT Security Fail without Network Automation
Due to the impact of COVID-19, workforces that were once housed in distinct locations, are now dispersed across the globe. Despite this displacement, it is critical that work continues as if employees were all in their physical office spaces and able to access and use applications, data, and services at all times from anywhere in
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Understanding the Role of the Network Engineer at NANOG 81
Beginning Monday, February 8, 2021, The North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG) will kick-off NANOG 81, where network engineers have the opportunity to connect with each other and take a deep dive into the state of network automation. As Itential prepares to join this year’s virtual event, it is clear that the role of network
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Advancing Tomorrow’s Network with API Automation
In today’s environment, speed and efficiency are more important than ever for various organizations. For enterprise IT managers there has been a push to make their technology more effective for not only the current state of their organization, but for their organization’s future. Applications and services are increasingly complex and distributed, requiring connectivity and policy
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