Automating an enterprise’s switch upgrade using Python and open-source tools saved time, money, and human errors compared to doing it manually. Automation can make a big difference in repetitive ...

While modern hybrid on-premise and multicloud connected digital infrastructures can deliver IT services at levels previously unimaginable, enterprises are finding it increasingly difficult to ...

The recent T-Mobile data breach, reportedly facilitated by attackers gaining access to an unprotected router and from there into the network, could have been prevented through the use of network ...

When it comes to network automation, it's hard to argue against its many benefits: IT teams get to spend less time responding to requests to update a server or provision a load balancer (again), ...

Network configuration, the lifeblood of any connected system, has long been a laborious task. Traditionally, network engineers faced the tedious and error-prone process of manually logging into ...

A network source of truth (NSoT) is a record of the desired state of critical parts of the network that network engineers can compare with the operational state of the network. It is critical to not ...

The networking industry has done a great job of training network engineers to use the command line interface for per-device configuration and training has resulted in an extensive use of manual ...

The new data center that is evolving doesn't look like the centers we had come to know in years past. The racks of servers and storage disks may be greatly reduced, or absent altogether, displaced by ...

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But not every business process is a good fit for automation, so it's incumbent upon companies to determine which processes are best suited to automation and which ones are best handled by humans. How ...