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The next generation of orchestration is driven mostly by the need for scale and distribution to support the new edge and IOT use cases. This generation of orchestration needs to support not just orchestration of services within a local data center or cloud but needs to reach across multiple sites,… Read More

A Path to Network Automation As cloud technology wins mainstream acceptance among companies looking to run networks that are efficient, scalable and high quality, the development of software-based technologies, open-source solutions, and public cloud services (like AWS, Azure) are becoming unstoppable. In addition to the growth… Read More

SD-WAN simplifies the management and operation of a WAN by decoupling (separating) the networking hardware from its control mechanism. This concept is similar to how software-defined networking implements virtualization technology to improve data center management… Read More

I wasn’t planning on writing my own predictions this year – it just so happens that I was asked to respond to future-looking questions as part of an RFI response. – and I thought that the initial conclusions from this exercise were worth sharing. Read More

Inside Edge Computing Ask a dozen technologists what edge computing is, and you’ll get a dozen answers. Each vendor has a different meaning, based on what they already sell, or what they think venture capitalists want to hear. Edge computing is the new cloud: a… Read More

We’re excited to announce our latest version of Cloudify – 4.5! This release comes with quite a few features, integrations, and improvements that focus on intent-based networking and closed-loop orchestration for cloud native and multi-cloud production deployments. Read More

Cloudify vs. Ansible – Where Each Works Best Last month, we compared Cloudify with Terraform, HashiCorp’s infrastructure automation tool. This month we will explore some of the strengths and use cases of Cloudify and another widely used automation tool, Red Hat’s Ansible. Read More

That’s a wrap! The first ever Cloud Native Day conference in Israel is now behind us and we had such a great time seeing old friends and making new ones. As you may know, this event started out as OpenStack Day Israel about 6 years ago. From there, the… Read More

There are many tools in the marketplace to perform automation. There are many ways to break down the types of automation, whether it’s imperative versus declarative, or orchestration versus desired configuration state. Orchestration tools are extremely popular for many reasons: they are usually fast to get moving, they… Read More

This post was originally published Aug 11 on Sebastian Grabski’s blog Orchestrated Things “Networks as we know them, are going to stay like that for quite some time” Every once in a while, the networking world is shaken by the new “shiny object”… Read More

Cloudify is often used to automate and manage network services. We have previously discussed topics such as Network Automation, Edge Networking, Service Chaining, and, most recently, Intent-Based Networking. Watch our upcoming Edge Computing webinar with Mirantis!     Register Now In this… Read More

This post was originally published Aug 29 on Sebastian Grabski’s blog Orchestrated Things “…seeing is believing, isn’t it?” Intent Based Networking is one of my favorite topics, especially due to fact that it embraces the power of proper orchestration and automation. I covered already “declarative… Read More