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The CrowdStrike Incident Highlights The Need To Treat Servers Like Cattle, Not Pets

A clear advantage of leveraging a platform to manage your servers rather than you doing it manually is the ability to recover faster. If...

30 Jul 2024

What’s so unique about AI Networking?

Today, in data centers CLOS networks are universally adopted and deployed. There is sort of industry consensus on leaf-spine architecture...

1 Jul 2024

Network Abstraction Is The Way Forward, Not Automation

In our previous blog, Intent-based Infrastructure, we discussed the need to automate the entire infrastructure by translating the user...

24 May 2024

From Uncooked Spaghetti to Served Soup: Infrastructure Deployment

Challenge On-premises infrastructure deployment automation is hard!!! The process of getting the infrastructure ready for end-user...

2 May 2024

Infrastructure Platform Engineering: Pedal to the Metal

In recent years, Platform Engineering has emerged as a crucial function within software-focused organizations. Platform engineering is...

13 Mar 2024

How to Unlock the Full Potential of Bare Metal Infrastructure Orchestration

Infrastructure orchestration is the process of automating and coordinating the deployment and management of complex IT infrastructure...

26 Feb 2024

Revolutionizing Infrastructure Deployments: Introducing Intent-Based Infrastructure

Traditional infrastructure management methods are reaching their limits in today's dynamic tech landscape. The prevailing approach of...

3 Feb 2024

SONiC: Empowering Networks with Automation and Orchestration

The modernization of data center infrastructure is crucial for enterprises striving toward digital transformation by adopting...

28 Jan 2024

Empowering Businesses through Automation: Key Insights from the 2023 Gartner IT IOCS

The Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference is a renowned event that brings together IT infrastructure, IT...

12 Jan 2024

Revolutionizing Lab Environments: Time for the Upgrade They Deserve

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, enterprises grapple with managing diverse dev/lab environments efficiently. Lab agility, the...

8 Jan 2024

O-RAN: Compute Automation Is Critical For 5G Success

Historically, the deployment of RAN (Radio Access Network) has been heavily tied to individual vendors while still adhering to the...

5 Jan 2024

Maximizing Data Center Efficiency: A Guide to Firmware Management

Firmware management is an essential aspect of data center operations, playing a critical role in ensuring that hardware systems, such as...

7 Dec 2023

Why Is Hardware Reuse Such A Big Deal?

hardware reuse

14 Nov 2023

What Is The Difference Between Automation And Orchestration

The terms "automation" and "orchestration" are sometimes used interchangeably, but they are different concepts. This article describes...

14 Sept 2023

The Benefits Of Full-Stack Orchestration In Zero Trust Security

As digital landscapes continue to evolve, the conventional cybersecurity model of "trust but verify" is being challenged by a more...

21 Aug 2023

Intent-Based Network Automation

Are you tired of spending hours configuring network services, only to spend even more time tearing it down a short time later? Does your...

8 Aug 2023

MetalSoft Fabric Manager Use Cases

Most on-premises network environments in enterprises are still very much rooted in old paradigms of change requests and are manually...

1 Aug 2023

MetalSoft 6.0 Release: Fast, Robust, Flexible

We are excited to announce our 6.0 release.

21 Jun 2023

By 2025, 40% of newly procured premises-based compute and storage will be consumed as a service

A recent report from Gartner highlights an interesting trend that we too have seen in the market: The move towards As-a-service...

16 Aug 2022

Modernizing legacy infrastructures with the Automated Cloud Datacenter Solution

The Automated Cloud Data Center management solution can help modernize your infrastructures with cloud-like features with 3 to 9 times...

17 Jun 2021

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The CrowdStrike Incident Highlights The Need To Treat Servers Like Cattle, Not Pets

A clear advantage of leveraging a platform to manage your servers rather than you doing it manually is the ability to recover faster. If...

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