Recently, I had the pleasure of joining Paul Stringfellow in his latest Techstringy podcast episode to discuss intelligent network automation. We had a great conversation that centered around answering one specific question I’m constantly asked out in the field – how do organizations deliver modern networking to meet the demands of today’s enterprise?
When speaking to the challenges associated with delivering modern networking, it’s important to understand that up until recently, network automation hasn’t moved very fast. The pandemic caused a huge acceleration within the industry over the past six months, and with more demand, comes greater complexity. In response, organizations must evolve from using traditional solutions to smarter and more modern solutions or they won’t be able to keep up with this new demand. Unfortunately, there is still a lack of strategy, skills, and tools to help resolve the problem. Only with an innovative and tactical strategy can success truly be realized, because network management will continue to evolve and become more complex. On the other hand, an organization will also need to meet the technical aspects of such developments in order to maintain efficiency.
To address these challenges, Itential’s low-code network automation platform provides a vendor agnostic, turnkey solution, connecting network infrastructure (physical, virtual, hybrid, and multi-cloud) with IT Service Management applications and configuration tools to accomplish closed-loop network automation. Built to accelerate automation, the focus is on reducing barriers and providing network engineers with a simple and accessible way to automate any network change.
Named to Inc. Magazine’s annual Inc. 5000 list of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies, Itential products are in use by some of the world’s largest networks, including many of the top service providers and financial services companies across the globe – truly offering a modernized approach to network automation.
To view the full podcast episode visit Techstringy.com or view the video above, where I also cover the following topics with Paul:
- The networking bottleneck in IT automation
- Why can’t we “spin-up” networking?
- How do we modernize the network when there is a lack of strategy, skills, and tools?
- The COVID-19 effect
- The problems with a traditional network automation approach
- The cloud networking quandary
- Automation “sprawl”
- How networking is evolving
- Building a network automation strategy and a network platform
- Tips for your network modernization approach
I hope you enjoy the discussion!
Tags: Modern Network Multi-Domain Networks Network Automation Network Management Network Transformation
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.
