What’s all the hype about hype cycles? According to Gartner, Gartner Hype Cycles provide insight into the maturity, adoption, and business impact of emerging tech and innovations.
“Automation is a transformational investment for infrastructure and operations (I&O) leaders. Investments in this area reflect the need to enable improved speed to market, increased business agility, mitigation of security and compliance risk, optimization of performance, and minimization of service costs,” according to Gartner.
Amidst ambitious claims of emerging technologies, how do you distinguish between mere hype and genuine commercial potential? And when can you expect these promises to yield tangible results, if at all?
The Gartner Hype Cycle approach furnishes you with a roadmap for the gradual evolution of a technology or application, offering valuable guidance to strategically implement it in alignment with your distinct business objectives.
https://www.gartner.com/en/research/methodologies/gartner-hype-cycle
In our opinion, Gartner hype cycles help you make the right decision for your business at the right time as well as give you direction for who to evaluate to lower your risk!
We believe this signifies that what NetBrain has built its reputation on and has consistently achieved by revolutionizing thousands of hybrid-cloud networks for large enterprises and MSPs, is now becoming foundational. Organizations need to think about how to scale service delivery more efficiently with lower overhead and a limited set of skilled resources.
NetBrain, the industry’s only no-code network automation platform, is mentioned as a sample vendor in a whopping 5 recent 2023 Gartner Hype Cycles!
In these 5 Gartner Hype Cycles, NetBrain is listed as a sample vendor in 3 different technology sectors:
Of these 3 categories, 2 of them (Network Digital Twin and Network Assurance) are new this year to Gartner Hype Cycles.
According to Gartner: “Instead, we observe an incremental adoption of the subcomponents of an IBN, including network automation, configuration validation, and network assurance.”1
Why we believe Intents are King
Intents describe the fundamental connectivity requirements along with the performance and security requirements that must exist to support its business applications and services. They contain the baseline characteristics and performance of every part of your hybrid network.
“A network digital twin allows for the validation of configuration and security policies made to individual components.” According to Gartner, “We believe a network digital twin can improve delivery times for requests by 20% across the network.”2
Not all Models are Created Equal
Other digital twins don’t model the connectivity and flow, and intent data. They can’t provide multi-dimensional network awareness for service delivery performance. NetBrain is different. With the power of real-time contextual visibility and comprehension, we unlock a comprehensive array of no-code network automation capabilities, ensuring that your hybrid infrastructure consistently upholds its architectural design intentions.
Full stack digital twin enables scalable no-code automation
Gartner also states that: “Having a model of the network that validates applications and network changes accelerates the delivery of applications and increases reliability.”3
Always Validate and Verify
Intents give us the conditions and state of the hybrid network that automation can measure against. In this way, network operations can proactively and efficiently enforce the design intents of their hybrid-cloud networks.
Key takeaways from the research:
NetBrain helps enterprises and MSPs to transform their network operations to be more strategic, lowering overhead cost and risk quickly with no-code network automation.
It Starts with a Comprehensive Live Digital Twin
This allows NetBrain to provide multi-layer end-to-end network understanding from the device level to the topology and traffic flow levels and to the intent level with application and service-delivery understanding, all of which collectively empower automation.
No-Code Automation Leverages Intents
While Intent-Based Networking (IBN) may fall short due to its lack of agility and reliability capabilities, we’ve paired it with automation to ensure configuration validation and network assurance. Network automation with IBN principles can deliver faster time to value for operations.
Increase the Value of your Existing Infrastructure and Tools with Network Assurance
You’ve invested heavily in your network. Now, you can get insurance to protect it. Safeguard your network investments over its lifespan with auto-discovery and a single source of truth without adding complexity or overhead. Visibility and proactive assurance of network health with continuous validation, will ensure you will be well-prepared for forthcoming service-delivery innovations.
Further, NetBrain visibility and continuous verification supports Zero Trust principles by capturing and protecting the actual Intent of your security team’s architectural designs.
Heading up the curve, the Innovation Trigger phase lets you know of technologies with breakthrough potential that’s not necessarily available in market or viable. NetBrain holds 11 patents and has spent years developing these technologies. Our Next-Gen platform is transforming the network automation market, adopted, and proven by enterprises, today.
Let NetBrain help answer all of your questions and prove tangible value proven in enterprises today.
According to Gartner, “When new technologies make bold promises, how do you discern the hype from what’s commercially viable? And when will such claims pay off, if at all? Gartner Hype Cycles provide a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities. Gartner Hype Cycle methodology gives you a view of how a technology or application will evolve over time, providing a sound source of insight to manage its deployment within the context of your specific business goals.
“How Hype Cycles help you:
1 Hype Cycle for I&O Automation, 14 July, 2023, Chris Saunderson, Cameron Haight
2 Hype Cycle for Data Infrastructure Technologies, 13 July, 2023, Henrique Cecci, Philip Dawson
3 Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 12 July, 2023, Andrew Lerner, Nauman Raja, Karen Brown
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