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There are several challenges that come with network functions virtualization (NFV), a method of outlining and operating networking services. As businesses continue to grow and generate more information, it becomes increasingly difficult for company teams to harness the wide range of data produced… Read More

Orchestration can be viewed as part of an automation continuum- even though, of course, all software is essentially automation. Layer upon layer of abstraction has been built to improve productivity and understand complex systems. The cloud revolution is built up these abstractions, going beyond mere application logic to… Read More

In our data-driven world, remarkable growth in network traffic has led to the dramatic expansion of network infrastructure. Manual, script-based legacy network management methods can no longer keep up with the speed of business. As a result, we have seen the emergence of network automation, where physical and… Read More

Cloudify recently undertook a substantial project in collaboration with Intel and F5 focussing on containerized workloads on multiple distributed Kubernetes clusters, both on-premise and cloud clusters. Our very own Shay Naeh documented the projected, and created an in-depth summary… Read More

Open-source as a way to drive open standard has been one of the founding concepts behind Cloudify’s strategy since day-one. The speed in which the cloud infrastructure world is evolving is fast leading towards continued fragmentation and changes. Driving open standard in… Read More

Alan R. Earls recently wrote an article on TechTarget: TOSCA and other cloud standardization efforts stall where he pointed out the state of TOSCA as well as other cloud standardization efforts: “TOSCA was originally designed as an open… Read More

One of the main challenges when working on an automation project is writing the automation templates. Each cloud provider has its own template language, which means that you can’t reuse artifacts that were already written by other frameworks. This makes many automation projects substantially longer than they would… Read More

One of the recent SDxCentral posts by Ali Longwell covers the state and need for open-source SD-WAN, providing an interesting read and a great 360 view on the various aspects in which we can consider the need for open-source in the context… Read More

Serving as a popular configuration management tool, Ansible is taking over other popular configuration management tools such as Chef and Puppet and has become a popular tool to manage the configuration of many network devices. The motivation behind the Cloudify and Ansible integration follows the… Read More

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