Today, we’re announcing the general availability of IBM® Rapid Network Automation—the first solution that stems from our Pliant acquisition in March.
IBM Rapid Network Automation is an advanced API-driven tool that is designed to automate, integrate and connect infrastructure across a hybrid cloud environment. Using a low-code approach and transforming API code into deployment-ready action blocks, IBM Rapid Network Automation is equipped with thousands of out-of-the-box integrations that help facilitate, integrate and secure communication up and down the technology stack between platforms, services and applications.
Network automation tasks can be inefficient (on top of specific skill requirements that some teams don’t have). Streamlining and automating tasks such as scripts, centralized governance and security policies are critical to addressing complexity, which is often the cause of these bigger automation initiatives potentially failing.
According to the EMA’s 2024 Network Management Megatrends Report, IT professionals say the biggest challenge to success for network operations is the shortage of skilled personnel. Understaffed teams are inheriting complex network topologies as businesses quickly adopt evolving technologies like multi-cloud, SaaS and software defined networks.
With IBM Rapid Network Automation, organizations can embark on a transformative journey towards centralized, secured and scalable automation management, so IT teams can achieve end-to-end automation across their network and business. By using existing automation scripts, amplifying their capabilities and applying robust automation governance measures (such as centralized control and compliance), enterprises can navigate the complexities of modern networks.
Key automation use cases such as automated network observability, public cloud management, security and compliance operations and IT service management are all available today with IBM Rapid Network Automation in both SaaS and client-managed offerings.
App-centric network observability with automation to support network performance
Continuing our product journey, we plan to release IBM SevOne® v7 on June 6—providing an application-centric, multicloud network observability solution to help IT turn insights into actions to manage and automate modern enterprise networks.
The core network monitoring, analysis and advanced visualization features of IBM SevOne v7 can be further extended through an add-on, integrated bundle with IBM Rapid Network Automation. The possible integration of IBM SevOne’s hybrid cloud infrastructure performance data and network flow records with the powerful automation engine of IBM Rapid Network Automation create automated network observability, so network teams can monitor to understand their network performance from an important perspective—an application performance perspective.
IBM has strategically built out its Software Networking portfolio to address network teams’ top challenges—maximizing performance and reducing complexity caused by hyper distributed apps, users and data, loss of visibility and control. IBM Rapid Network Automation and the upcoming release of IBM SevOne*, further enhance IBM’s application-centric network portfolio that includes IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh, IBM NS1 Connect®, and IBM Edge Application Manager.
No matter how your infrastructure or network is built, our goal is to help you observe your network and be able to act on it. For IT teams to succeed, it will be critical for foundational network technologies to be operationalized and automated. And as AI, IT and network initiatives are only getting more complex, IBM SevOne and IBM Rapid Network Automation are cornerstone solutions that are designed to help provide visibility, address current inefficiencies, so app-centric networking can see its full potential.
To learn more about IBM Rapid Network Automation, tune into today’s webinar at 11:00 a.m. ET. To learn more about IBM SevOne, register for the “What’s new in IBM SevOne v7″ webinar scheduled for June 5th at 10:00am eastern.
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