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Should you build or buy a network automation solution?

As networks grow in complexity, the demand for automation is ever increasing. Every network architect is looking for ways to eliminate tedious, error-prone manual operations and embrace automation to free time for more value-added activity. From onboarding multi-vendor,  multi-domain devices to monitoring, troubleshooting, and remediating network issues – automation has the capability to revolutionize networking.

When do you require network automation?

Are you excited about an entirely self-driven autonomous smart car?  Probably not. However, you probably appreciate automatic transmission as well as cruise control and other features that facilitate easy driving.  Much like smart cars, the journey towards network automation will be gradual. Are network architects and network administrators ready for a  self-driving network? Possibly, but most architects want some level of control in steering network operations and are unwilling to take the back seat. However, solutions that can automate mundane tasks are overwhelmingly welcomed. In a network world of multi-vendor infrastructure and devices, on-boarding, maintaining configuration, and detecting and remediating compliance violations becomes a daunting task. It is nearly impossible to monitor and troubleshoot a vast network manually or draw any insights given the lack of scalability. Automation tools have been trying to solve this challenge and have been successful in providing some value to the administrators. Tools such as Ansible help you push configuration changes to devices automatically. Netbox,  Github, and others help track configuration drifts, and Python is used to add intelligence into the automation framework. Collected network data can also be stored in open source time-series databases like  Prometheus and Influx, which when integrated with Grafana help provide visibility and insights into the network. While you can get started quickly with these tools and achieve some level of automation, what is required in the long run is a more robust and comprehensive automation solution.

What constitutes a comprehensive network automation solution?

Network administrators and architects have been test-driving various in-house,  open-sourced and commercial automation solutions for quite some time.  While some solutions are low code and easy to deploy, many lack the capacity and scalability for long term needs. On the other end of the spectrum, there are robust offerings equipped with shock absorbing and disaster recovery features, but they require a large footprint and have limited compatibility with only a small subset of vendors. A comprehensive network automation solution automates the complete end-to-end device and service lifecycle. Moreover, it can scale to support a large number of vendors as well as provision devices, collect specific network information, and provide analytics distinct to particular use cases. An easily scalable solution with a small footprint, allows network operators to start small and grow with automation confidence. Constant monitoring of all devices anticipates possible configuration, compliance or other network issues and automatically remediates issues with known solutions. The solution also integrates with ServiceNow, Jira, and other ticketing and billing systems to provide you a complete end to end closed-loop automation platform.

Look before you leap

The first instinct towards automating your network is the confidence that it can be done in-house with standard tools or custom scripting. Some common pitfalls include: Let’s try it ourselves. There is a ton of free automation tools. Many companies have done it internally. We have already automated a part of our network so why should we waste money by buying a packaged solution? While a homegrown automation solution might appear plausible initially, it may be wiser to ask the following questions:

How many automation tools can we learn and handle?  Each tool is specialized in its area – such as Ansible for configuration, Netbox for IPAM, Prometheus for database, and Python for intelligence. Comprehending and maintaining every tool can become cumbersome.

How much integration support do we get?  For a complete closed loop automation integration with ticketing/billing/OSS/BSS are the fundamental underlying requirements.  If the tools do not comprehend these capabilities, is the support readily available or will it have to be built?

How do I develop automation scripts? Developing an automation framework itself becomes a project on its own.  Significant resources will have to be allocated in order to plan for software versioning, maintenance, and upgrades of automation scripts.

How do we handle scripting issues? You have to worry not only about your network but also your script bugs that can adversely impact your automation system. You will have to learn low-level OS integrations to optimally scale scripts.

How many resources can I dedicate towards automation? A project of significant size and scope requires dedicated resources to create and maintain various automation scripts.

How much risk am I willing to take? A  project of this scale may take years to complete. Even then, it may not meet intent or expectations of the lines of businesses that are supported. Are you willing to risk failure?

Will my network get locked to a single vendor?  It’s easy to automate when there is uniformity. If all scripts are tailored towards a particular single vendor, it could become exceedingly difficult to move to other vendors that might bring a best of breed approach for a particular workflow or set of applications.

What happens if key team members leave? This is perhaps one of the most challenging questions to answer. If your key team members that designed and developed the automation system leave  the organization, how could it impact ongoing network operations?

When should you consider deploying a packaged automation solution?

Smaller networks might lend themselves to an internally developed automation solution, but maintenance and future scalability are still risk points.  On the other hand, larger, more extensive multi-vendor and multi-domain networks will benefit greatly from a packaged, microservices based automation solution. The following checklist might provide insight into determining the fit of a packaged solution:

Is there a need to automate more than 500 devices on a given network?

Are there more than 2 vendors in a given network?

Do network operations need to be tied to business operations? I.e. integration of network workflows with ServiceNow/Jira, etc.

Is a single pane of glass desired to manage a given network, or can it be managed with multiple, distributed interfaces?

Is efficient provisioning required to effectively scale an automation framework as a network grows?

Is network enhancement and future proofing a long term objective?

If the answer is yes to any of these questions, consider Anuta Networks ATOM for your network automation needs. Wantto learn more? Visit

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Assurance, Telemetry & Orchestration for Multi-Vendor Networks

Worldwide network operation teams are facing intense demands from both internal constituents and application owners for a flexible, secure and predictable infrastructure. Further complicating matters, operators are burdened with legacy infrastructure, broken processes, limited visibility and shrinking budgets.

Anuta ATOM uniquely addresses these pain points and delivers a modular, extensible, scalable and cloud-native software platform that enables enterprises and service providers to rapidly design and provision network services, collect real-time network telemetry, develop deep network analytics, ensure compliance and provide service assurance for multi-vendor physical and virtual infrastructure.

With ATOM, networking teams can deliver services faster, eliminate human errors, avoid security violations, reduce OpEx and meet SLAs with exceptional high availability.

Multi-Vendor Support

Anuta ATOM supports 150+ platforms from 40+ vendors. Anuta ATOM orchestrates brownfield and greenfield deployments of Physical, Virtual, SDN and NFV infrastructure across multiple network domains.

Closed-Loop Assurance

Anuta ATOM collects streaming network telemetry from multi-vendor infrastructure using Google Protobufs. It applies machine learning algorithms to develop deep analytics and reports. The solution simplifies troubleshooting by providing the context of the entire network. Customers can define KPI metrics and corrective actions to automate SLA compliance.

Microservices Architecture

Anuta ATOM is composed of many microservices that can be scaled-up or scaled-down in public and private clouds. The Microservices architecture reduces overall system footprint and enables migration in a multi-cloud world. Anuta ATOM’s flexible architecture scales horizontally to support 1 million+ devices.

Extensible Platform

Anuta ATOM uses extensible data models and follows open standards such as IETF YANG and OpenConfig models. The entire platform functionality is available via the REST API for integration with OSS/BSS and ticketing systems. Anuta ATOM has an SDK that simplifies overall development effort, introduces version control to treat the infrastructure as code and supports ongoing DevOps movement.

Network Assurance, Network Telemetry and Network Orchestration

Cloud Ready

Anuta ATOM is containerized and can be deployed in public clouds including AWS, Azure and GCP. ATOM can manage Small, Medium or Very large-scale networks in private, public and hybrid cloud environments.

Anuta ATOM Advantages

One of the broadest industry coverage.

Investment protection for the future demands of IoT, 5G, Multi-Cloud

Aligned with open standards

Horizontally scalable to automate 1 Million+ devices.

Ensures a higher and more consistent QoS.

Flexible to run on any cloud including AWS, Azure, GCP.

High Resiliency and Auto-Scale

A powerful interface to define KPIs and corrective actions.

Collaboration infrastructure for Device, Service Model and Custom App. development 

Additional resources., you can check out the website Anuta Networks for more case studies as well as datasheets.

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Network Service Orchestration | NSO

Traditional Network Management software is not able to keep up with the demands on the network operators. Every year, the underlying hardware keeps evolving (e.g. Fabric path, SDN controllers), the number of networking vendors increase and the communication methods (E.g. CLI, API, SNMP, NETCONF) keep changing. In many companies, the developer who wrote the expect or TCL scripts left the company and every simple change becomes a new project. Ultimately, network operators are resorting to spreadsheets to maintain VLAN numbers, Router credentials etc.

A Network Service Orchestrator uses the concept of abstraction to simplify the task of configuring multiple network elements. For example, let’s say the operator has to create a VLAN for a specific application. In the traditional approach, the operator has to login to each and every router and configure using CLI or GUI. On the other hand, a Network Service Orchestrator automatically discovers the network topology and all the dependancies for creating a VLAN. It auto generates the CLI or API calls for each vendor device and executes an atomic transaction across all devices.

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Ryan Lynn, VP of Emerging Architecture at Trace-3 discusses the latest in network analytics such as streaming telemetry, machine learning, AI and how network practitioners can get a head-start to deploy them.

In this video, below following topics were covered

1.  Challenges with Traditional Analytics Solutions

2.  About Innovations in Network Analytics

3.  About Streaming Telemetry

4.  About Machine Learning and AI

5.  About Embracing the New Technologies

6.  About Anuta ATOM’s approach to Network Analytics

7.  About the Massively Scalable Anuta ATOM platform

8.  About The Future of Network Operations

If you need to find out more about how Anuta can help you with network assurance and orchestration. 

You can head on over to anutanetworks.com/collective. There you will find lots of great information. Some white papers, case studies and you could even demo the platform for yourself.  

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Multicloud Network Management

Enterprises and Service Providers plan to be multicloud ready to  minimize business risk. Hence, the automation solution must be able to  support multicloud network management.

Multicloud Ready

The Anuta ATOM platform is composed of many microservices  or docker containers that provide functionality such as discovering the  devices, building the topology, collecting the telemetry data, creating  a service chain across multiple vendor devices as well as delivering  analytics and visualization of the network infrastructure. Anuta ATOM  uses kubernettes to manage the various docker containers, so these can  be deployed on-prem, or these can be deployed in public clouds such as  AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Multicloud Migration

As Enterprises shift from on-prem deployments to multicloud, Anuta  ATOM eases the migration by building secure VPN tunnels on-demand.

Multicloud Management

From the single ATOM GUI, operators can manage the on-prem as well as  multicloud networks including IPAM, Security Policy, Standard  templates, and complex workflows that span hybrid networks.

Multicloud VNF Lifecycle

In addition, Anuta ATOM offers lifecycle management for various  virtual appliances (VNFs) whether they are hosted in hypervisors or  deployed as docker containers in the hybrid cloud networks.

For more information visit: www.anutanetworks.com

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Software Defined Data Center: Challenges

In Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC), on-demand delivery of network services is accelerated by avoiding long hardware deployment cycles. SDDCs simplify vendor replacement and support dynamic data loads by scaling out virtual appliances.

In a software defined world, you can quickly identify capacity bottlenecks and migrate tenant services.

In a software defined world, you (the IT admin) can quickly identify capacity bottlenecks and migrate tenant services for effective resource utilization. However, there are quite a few challenges on the path to realizing the true potential of Software Defined Data Centers. 

On-Demand Orchestration on Existing Networks: The idea of a Software Defined Network sounds good on paper; but, how can you make an existing network flexible? You need to provision resources on-demand, expand and contract the network as demand changes, and undo changes to resources that were made during provisioning. 

Multi-Vendor Environment:  For technical and business reasons, you are using a diverse set of appliances from vendors like Cisco, Juniper, F5, Citrix, Brocade, VMware, Riverbed, etc., each with different versions and different APIs. Hardware independence reduces differentiation and encourages more vendors to offer the same network services, complicating the problem further. 

Virtual Appliance Management: Network services that were originally limited to one or few physical appliances, will now be spread across hundreds of virtual appliances, leading to sprawl. You have to manage the virtual appliances programmatically through a policy-driven framework.  For that to happen, a few difficult questions have to be answered. How do you build all the templates for virtual appliances? How do you associate the templates with a business policy? How do you manage the licenses and Images?

Most importantly, who is going to manage the virtual appliance VM? Is it the server admin, the network admin or the cloud admin?

Virtual Appliance Placement:  In the physical appliance based architecture, network services are placed to honor traffic patterns such as east-west or north-south. You will have to honor many of these design considerations in the virtual appliance based infrastructure as well. Are you going to co-locate the virtual appliance VM with tenant VMs or do you want to allocate dedicated compute resources to the virtual appliance VMs?

Virtual Appliance Monitoring: You currently use many tools such as CLI, console access and traditional network management tools to troubleshoot network issues. In a multi-tenant data center that is prone to virtual appliance sprawl, you require a sophisticated solution that maps tenant services to network resources to help pinpoint the root cause of service failures.

Hybrid Architectures: Despite the advantages of virtual appliances, some network services will still be delivered using physical appliances. An orchestration solution needs to support deployments consisting of both physical and virtual network appliances.

Solution – Anuta Networks ATOM :With the latest release, Anuta Networks ATOM delivers the industry’s first on-demand network service orchestration for leading L2-L7 virtual service appliances from multiple vendors such as the Cisco VSG, Cisco ASA 1000v, Cisco CSR 1000v, Cisco Nexus 1000v, VMware DVS, Citrix NetScaler VPX, F5 BIG-IP and Riverbed Stingray ADC. Anuta ATOM offers virtual appliance life cycle management including appliance instantiation, placement, image management, service definitions, provisioning, commissioning and decommissioning.

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Assurance, Telemetry & Orchestration for Multi-Vendor Networks

Anuta ATOM SaaS enables enterprises and service providers to rapidly design and provision network services, collect real-time telemetry, develop in-depth network analytics, ensure compliance and provide service assurance for multi-vendor physical and virtual infrastructure. Anuta ATOM SaaS offering takes a cloud-first approach and is hosted within a Tier-1 cloud. The underlying infrastructure is validated and is governed by quality assurance and regulatory compliance process. With Anuta ATOM SaaS, networking teams can deliver services faster, eliminate human errors, avoid security violations, reduce OpEx and meet SLAs with exceptional high availability.

Agility

Anuta ATOM SaaS improves your operations team productivity with hassle-free deployments and automatic upgrades. You can experiment quickly and scale rapidly to achieve faster time to value and improved business agility.

Flexibility

Anuta ATOM SaaS offers flexible monthly pay per use plans with no upfront CapEx requirement. You can customize the solution to integrate with your specific environment containing 3rd party on-prem and SaaS software. With multiple connectivity options, Anuta ATOM SaaS enables on-demand network orchestration and assurance from anywhere in the world.

Stability

Enjoy the Security, and Availability provided by a Tier-1 Cloud provider. Minimize business risk with periodic backups and proactive customer support. With detailed billing and usage reports, passing the compliance and audit tests will be a breeze.

Anuta ATOM SaaS Advantages

Hassle-free deployments and upgrades

Flexible and Secure connectivity to enterprise networks

Network Orchestration and Closed-Loop Assurance for 45+ vendors

Auto-Scale to satisfy fluctuations in demand

Real-time Analytics and Historical Reports

Flexible Pay as you Grow license model

SDK and other productivity tools for rapid customization

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SD-WAN Simplified with Anuta ATOM Multi-Vendor Automation

Challenges with SD-WAN Implementations

SD-WAN is making a mark in the service provider and enterprise  markets. It is by far the most cost-effective and efficient way to route  enterprise traffic to remote locations. However, service providers have  an uphill task of SD-WAN automation.To summarize, SD-WAN technology is not standardized, and a single  vendor approach is not optimal given the requirements for new features  and service agility. On the other hand, managing multiple SD-WAN  solutions creates added complexity due to the additional management  layers.Furthermore, new SD-WAN infrastructure cannot replace existing branch  networking within enterprise deployments given the need for  extensibility to handle the breadth of products already deployed.  Consequently, enterprises must depend on individual components to  achieve security and WAN optimization benefits since not all vendors  support these features.

Anuta ATOM Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Automation

How can Anuta Networks help? Through its ATOM Multi-Vendor SD-WAN  Automation , the platform can orchestrate and automate the deployment of  SD-WAN infrastructure. ATOM has a horizontally scalable cloud-native  architecture and can run on-premises or on public clouds like AWS,  Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The open-designed nature of ATOM also  allows comprehensive support of more than 45 vendors and 100 platforms including SD-WAN controllers and CPEs.Anuta ATOM Features for Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Automation

Anuta ATOM Features for Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Automation

Anuta Networks ATOM’s Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Automation delivers unique features that make it an ideal fit for any SD-WAN implementation including zero-touch provisioning, support for existing network infrastructure, assurance and analytics, and integration.

1. Instant Deployment using Zero Touch Provisioning

According to industry sources, branch offices serve more than 70% of businesses. Provisioning and management of branch offices is a tedious,  time-consuming and costly affair. Lack of IT resources at remote sites  also drives up cost due to truck rolls. Additionally, multi-vendor  SD-WAN infrastructure typically demands the need for multi-skilled  networking professionals thus also escalating operating expenses. Anuta’s ATOM Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Automation offers Zero Touch  Provisioning which can perform instant deployment of branch  infrastructure. ATOM can provision underlay and overlay network devices  as well as push templatized configurations to branch CPE (physical,  virtual, universal) enabling communication with SD-WAN controllers. ATOM  also offers software image management and upgrades with in-built pre  and post-checks across WAN infrastructure.

2. Embrace your existing infrastructure using ATOM’s Brownfield Support

Enterprises are excited about adding SD-WAN capabilities into their  branch infrastructure. However, they intend to do this only while  preserving existing WAN service investments.Anuta’s ATOM Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Automation supports onboarding of  both greenfield and brownfield networks. The device and service  discovery aspects of ATOM helps to onboard devices and build a topology  of the network. ATOM imports the configurations from multi-vendor,  multi-platform networks and normalizes it for service modeling.The abstraction capabilities of ATOM also enable service chaining  across multi-vendor platforms including SD-WAN CPE, next-generation  firewalls, WAN optimization devices, and other existing branch  infrastructure with a single click. Furthermore, ATOM’s horizontally  scalable microservices based architecture enables support of more than  1M+ devices.

3. Ensure compliance using ATOM’s Service Assurance & Analytics

Day-to-day operations of networking professionals across multiple  platforms in SD-WAN and other WAN infrastructure will be challenging.ATOM’s powerful analytics capabilities combined with its Closed Loop Automation  feature provides unified, end-to-end visibility, control, and faster  troubleshooting. The platform closely monitors network activities and  leverages Big data analytics and machine learning to derive actionable  insights.ATOM also utilizes industry-leading visualization and logging tools  to deliver optimized network awareness. Based on real-time analytics,  ATOM’s closed loop automation capabilities help to provision WAN  policies in managing traffic across multiple underlay networks. This  ultimately improves SLA compliance through MTTR and reduces operating  expenses.

4. Integration with existing tools through the Anuta ATOM open platform

Service providers and enterprises deploy a management framework  spanning operational and network domains. This framework includes  traditional tools such as OSS/BSS, CRM tools such as Salesforce and  next-generation ticketing tools such as ServiceNow and Jira. New SD-WAN  infrastructure is expected to fit within this framework, and  multi-vendor support of APIs and integration has to be accommodated. Anuta ATOM Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Automation is an open platform  enabling integration into any operational and management framework. It  supports integration into OSS/BSS, CRM and incident management tools  like ServiceNow and Jira. These support systems can talk directly to the  ATOM’s intuitive workflow automation suite to facilitate the approval  process during the service provisioning of SD-WAN infrastructure.ATOM also provides a self-service portal which aids in multi-level  service provisioning, device discovery, compliance, reconciliation,  assurance through analytics and reporting of SD-WAN infrastructure. ATOM  can act as a single-pane-of-glass in many use cases across enterprises  opting for a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) model of SD-WAN implementation. This  dramatically simplifies both day zero deployment and on-going network  management.Read More : how Anuta’s ATOM Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Automation solution helped TATA Communication’s IZO™ SD-WAN to transform  their managed services.

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Unlock your network's potential with in-depth analytics and meaningful insights

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Be Compliant 24×7 with ATOM’s Advanced Multi-Vendor Network Compliance Solution

Formulating a well-defined network compliance policy, automated validations and enforcement mechanisms is essential in ensuring network consistency and business continuity. At the end of the day, automated compliance functions as a safety check when humans fail to execute their tasks.

We have keenly listened to our customers, and we have heard the need for a network compliance solution that enables monitoring and management of the entire network from a single instance. That’s why the Anuta ATOM platform delivers advanced compliance management capabilities, making it an all-encompassing solution for any compliance needs.

With rich multi-vendor support and a horizontally scalable platform, Anuta ATOM can automate your entire network and provides centralized compliance management.

ATOM Network Compliance

Save Time, Eliminate Frustration and Define Complicated Policies with Ease

Defining a policy is like painting – better the quality of brush, finer the emphasis on details.

Your network compliance policies include several configurations for security, device/application onboarding, DNS, IP Mapping among others. The small set of compliance policies that you started with, has grown into a long confusing and indecipherable list. Anuta ATOM Policy Builder is designed to provide you an easy and intuitive interface to define complex policies with ease. Use the traditional string templates or advanced python-jinja based templates to define parameterized baseline or expected configurations as well as the action taken with a given policy violation.

Improve Network Efficiency and Mitigate Security Threats with In-Depth Analytics

Anuta ATOM’s compliance dashboard presents you with all of the essential information needed to make critical business decisions. You can view a summary of compliant, non-compliant and reconciled devices and services as well as observe past trends and validate network behavior. ATOM also monitors and displays detailed information across your multi-vendor and multi-domain networks and helps provide actionable in-depth insights.

CLI compliance summary

Remain Compliant Around-the-Clock

Compliance is not a one-time occurrence. Even a small lapse has the potential to severely undermine your network and business reputation. You must audit the network regularly and remediate any non-compliant service or devices quickly. Non-compliance to password policy, as a common example, can lead to a massive security breach with dire consequences. Therefore, it is critical to identify and fix such non-compliance issues promptly. ATOM can schedule and run a network audit at a time and frequency of your choosing and helps you to identify such problems quickly. You can also manually trigger a network audit.

Innovate and Focus on your Network, not CLI

Anuta ATOM handles all of the low-level tedious tasks such as device configuration and enables you to focus your time and energy on more critical activities focused on network management and security. With extensive device support covering 45+ vendors, a variety of communication support ��� CLI, API, Yang or Netconf, and comprehensive hybrid multi-cloud support, ATOM empowers you to drive real value back into the core lines of business in the form of agility and responsiveness.

Live Stress-Free with Automated Remediation

Get rid of incessant alarms, urgent fixes and sleepless nights. Anuta ATOM’s auto-remediation feature enables you to define remediation action to be taken on a rule violation. The ATOM correlation engine also monitors and validates all rules continuously. Upon discovery of any violations, ATOM notifies and alerts administrators through email, slack notifications, dashboard alerts or any other pre-defined means. ATOM can also preview the suggested fixes so the administrator can approve changes quickly and easily as well as automatically schedule jobs to remediate the offending service or device.

Document Everything Specific to Your Business

CLI compliance Report

Reliable documentation is a must. Documentation and reports help track all aspects of compliance management – compliant and non-compliant devices/services across vendors and platforms, policies validated, remediation actions taken, and much more. Every business has unique documentation needs and it is mission critical that reports are generated specifically to business need. The Anuta ATOM platform facilitates the creation and generation of custom reports specific to your network and business. This enables you to focus on KPIs of your interest. ATOM also enables troubleshooting and forensic analytics by tracking compliance history.

ATOM constantly monitors your network, runs compliance checks for thousands of devices across multiple vendors, and remediates any violation – keeping your network compliant while ensuring the highest user satisfaction and, eliminating potential business losses and/or legal actions.

Anuta ATOM Platform delivers compliance, ensures consistency and secures your multivendor and multidomain network

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80% of unplanned network outages occur annually due to a network configuration change. Only a mere 3% get rectified before they cause network disruptions. These disruptions also result in a loss of more than $46 million annually. Read more..

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Best of VMworld –  Finalist Award

The 10th annual VMworld US in San Francisco was very successful with as many as 23,000 IT professionals attending the conference. There was great energy with multiple vendors announcing latest product releases. VMware itself announced vSphere 5.5, VSAN (Virtual SAN) and  NSX as part of their Software Defined Data Center strategy. 

We are delighted to report that we were awarded Best of VMworld Finalist in the networking and virtualization category. nCloudX was recognized for its technological innovation, ease of integration, user experience and for being scalable multi-vendor solution that delivers network services for public and private cloud customers. 

The award drew a lot of attention to us. Attendees had a chance to see our visual service designer and comprehensive support for physical and virtual network appliances from multiple vendors including Cisco, F5,  Brocade, Citrix, VMware etc. They were happy to learn that nCloudX delivers SDN benefits – Self-service, On-Demand Service Delivery,  Capacity Management, Service Assurance and Cloud OS integration – for their existing physical and virtual network infrastructure. 

We also demonstrated the much anticipated dynamic network services and cloud OS service abstraction. With the availability of dynamic network services, customers can alter or insert any new L2 to L7 service constructs into existing services without disruption. Service providers and enterprises can leverage dynamic network services to bring agility and efficiency to their existing infrastructure. 

We had a great time as always and receiving the “Best of VMworld –  Finalist Award” validates our vision and execution to deliver network services in a self-service and on-demand manner for cloud and data center deployments.

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Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Automation with Anuta ATOM

Anuta ATOM Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Automation solution provides a centralized management plane and orchestrator for SD-WAN and existing branch infrastructure. ATOM provides assurance, analytics, and orchestration to multi-vendor SD-WANcontrollers, physical and virtual branch CPEs, next-generation firewalls, and WAN optimization devices. It reduces human errors and delivers consistent policies across the WAN infrastructure. ATOM’s powerful analytics and closed-loop automation help in creating self-healing and smart networks.