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Itential 2023 Predictions: 3 hot network automation trends set to take off in 2023

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3 hot network automation trends set to take off in 2023

By Rich Martin, Director of Technical Marketing, Itential

As we reflect back on 2022 and recognize the strides enterprises have made in their automation journey, we're also eager to discuss the hot trends we know will be the focus in the coming year. In recent months, we've seen enterprises recognizing that there is no one tool that solves all their automation challenges. Today, it's about using the right tool for the right job and having the right team in place to do it.

Over the past couple of years, we've also seen adoption of multiple clouds by enterprise companies, which is a big step in the transformation journey. As we move into 2023, expect even more to adopt a multi-cloud strategy, while others will stay on their present course. Regardless of the cloud architecture they choose, enterprises need to consider the further adoption of cloud-based services, shifting their focus to enable network teams to deploy, automate, and manage the network that stitches everything together.

Reflecting on the current network landscape and looking ahead, there are three key trends we believe will be evident by year's end:

#1: Orchestrating Automations

As organizations realize the business and technical benefits network automation and orchestration bring to their operations - including improved productivity, cost reduction and overall efficiency - demand for both will continue to rise. And as it does, the focus will begin to shift more toward orchestration.

Today's enterprise networking landscape is more complex than ever, consisting of multiple domains distributed across those networks. Network orchestration is the next step in the evolution of network management of complex networks and will be a prevailing trend in 2023 as enterprises address the need to automate network operations across multiple domains.  Enterprises understand the value of network automation. The orchestration layer is where they'll tie all those automations together.

#2: NetDevOps and CI/CD Pipeline Solutions Make An Impact

Network operators are changing the way they think about network changes and configuration management and are looking more to DevOps practices of building and updating software with traditional CI/CD pipelines. Offering low-code solutions will empower network teams and build organizations that can function across different skill sets and different processes - enabling everyone to participate in network orchestration.

We're likely to see enterprises continue to evolve their networking strategies to treat their network infrastructures as code. The rise of solutions to help enterprise customers adopt a modern network operating model that delivers an agile, data-driven change management process for the network will also continue.

#3: Multi-cloud/hybrid cloud networking will take off in 2023

Enterprises also need to deploy orchestration solutions that enable them to tie together multiple networks and multiple domains, all while empowering multiple teams to work together to ensure network operation reliability. Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud networking will continue to make that possible and will accelerate in 2023.

Going forward, the network needs to be thought of as programmable infrastructure to support a hybrid cloud architecture, just as it operates in the public cloud and web scale cloud. Network automation platforms targeted at networking infrastructure can tie together any networking domain, whether it's traditional networking infrastructure or software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) branches. What results is full hybrid cloud automation with enterprise networks that are as programmable as cloud compute and storage.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rich-Martin 

Rich Martin is Director of Technical Marketing at Itential. Previously, Rich worked at several networking vendors as both a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer and Systems Engineering Manager. He started his career with a background in software development and Linux. Rich has a passion for automation in the networking domain. At Itential he helps networking teams get started quickly and move forward successfully on their network automation journey.

Published Tuesday, January 03, 2023 7:35 AM by David Marshall
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