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How Current Firewall Automation Solutions Limit Your Automation Potential
As a networking veteran, one of the more interesting aspects of my job is the opportunity to meet with enterprise network and IT teams at organizations of all sizes across various industries and discussing their challenges provisioning and maintaining their networks. During the past couple of years, the number one issue I hear from teams
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Simplify SD-WAN & Multi-Cloud Deployments with Network Automation
WHITE PAPER Simplify SD-WAN & Multi-Cloud Deployments with Itential Network Automation Overview SD-WAN is driving a multi-domain, multi-controller environment. Multi-cloud is the reality for most enterprises, including the adoption of SaaS-based enterprise software platforms. Connecting multiple types of users, on multiple types of devices, to multiple cloud environments is complex and challenging. Treating the network
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Top Reasons Why Itential Leverages JSON as our Data Format
One of my favorite perks of my position at Itential is the opportunity to have great conversations with all sorts of people in different technical engineering backgrounds. From programmers, application specialists, and network engineers, there’s always a wide variety of topics to talk about (especially around automation and orchestration), and an even wider range of
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From Scripts to Self-Service: How to Achieve Scalable Enterprise Network Automation with Itential
On-Demand Webinar From Scripts to Self-Service: How to Achieve Scalable Enterprise Network Automation with Itential Many network engineers feel stuck spending their days working through a seemingly never-ending backlog of network change requests that have them darting across multiple network technologies including CLI devices, API-enabled controllers, and public cloud networking, and then they need to
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The Integration of CI/CD with Network Automation & Orchestration for a Common Pipeline
The intersection of CI/CD and network automation has grown substantially over the past few years. Network teams have seemingly reached the point in their automation and orchestration journey where it has become critical to implement a strategy to manage the testing, version control and deployment of both network changes and automation assets. While CI/CD has grown in popularity, there
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How to Select High Impact Use Cases to Drive a Successful Network Automation Strategy
As organizations engage on their initiatives to deliver network automation at scale, the prioritization of use cases becomes an essential component to maximize and sustain delivery of benefits to the business. Automating large use cases can have a huge impact, but the time and cost to automate those cases means that benefits will take time
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Redefining Network Automation & Orchestration for Today’s Multi-Domain Networks
Automation and orchestration are two words that have been around for a while, yet they often can still be misunderstood. In fact, just a couple years ago, we shared a blog outlining the difference between the two to help clarify the focus and roles of both technology types. While the fundamentals covered have not changed,
Analyst Report
Gartner Market Guide for Network Automation & Orchestration Tools
Gartner estimates that today, over 65% of network activities are manual. As a result, infrastructure, operations, and cloud management leaders should look to shift from “ClickOps” whereby most processes are performed manually, enabled by fingers “clicking” on keyboards to “NetDevOps” typically associated with applying DevOps and/or CI/CD practices to networking activities, resulting in heavily automating
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Why Organizations Must Have Trust in Their Data, Tools, & Processes to Automate
There’s no getting around it - bad data can lead to all kinds of problems and disruptions in IT. One of the main sources of bad data is human errors, which severely limit your ability to automate. As you create automations from processes, it’s important to evaluate where human interaction is involved, with the understanding
Podcast
The Art of Network Engineering: Automate Your Network with Itential
Podcast The Art of Network Engineering: Automate Your Network with Itential We’ve all been there – need to make a configuration change, searching for the backup in multiple places, only to find out that it hasn’t been backed up in months. Insert automation. There is no denying the value of automating network operations and processes,
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