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HOW WE CAN PARTNER WITH YOUR TEAM
Our service offering is focused on helping clients develop a NetDevOps culture within their IT network infrastructure team. By adopting these principles, network product owners can expect to improve efficiencies, reduce risk, and enhance trust between teams and management.
Every organization, regardless of size or industry, experiences common pain points associated with operating their network infrastructure.
Many organizations are adopting and applying the Agile project management methodology across their entire IT organization. Conflict can often arise between IT service domains, as there are differing service delivery goals and philosophies associated with each product. For example, development teams focus on delivering code in a quick, iterative fashion, while network infrastructure teams focus on operational stability. Security and Compliance mitigation activities require both speed and stability. Policy changes need to be rapidly implemented, but those changes must not negatively impact the customer experience.
Network infrastructure needs to be flexible and responsive to security vulnerability announcements, bug fixes, and code standardization efforts. It is subject to industry-specific data custody mandates and periodic audit. The software update cadence from network vendors is rapidly increasing, and, we're seeing changes in vendor licensing models.
Some network teams find themselves locked into a perpetual platform upgrade cycle, unable to effectively standardize code versions and configurations across the environment. This scenario can lead to licensing and support entitlement denial.
A lack of network configuration agility often results in riskier change control procedures. A breakdown in the change review process could lead to oversights in peer-review, development testing, pre/post device state verification, and acceptance testing. Any of these omissions could cause the change procedure to fail and require roll-back. This can serve to reinforce any reluctance from management to approve necessary changes and updates.
Do any of these points resonate with the daily challenges you face?
Fortunately, NetDevOps can be of immense value in addressing this complex tangle of IT domain interaction and dependencies.
OUR KEY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGIES
Network process optimization
Review and application of standard processes and tooling within the NetDevOps stack. Develop a "Network-as-Code" mindset. Legacy (CLI/SNMP) and programmability-capable devices (API) are fully supported.
Operational risk reduction
The network is treated as an application. Its attributes are codified into a data set source-of-truth. Necessary access controls are present and the data are easy to audit. Updates can be applied once and automatically deployed at scale.
Developing a NetDevOps culture
NetDevOps methods create abstraction, not silos, between domains. This affords each domain the ability to independently manage configuration artifacts from their respective platforms, yet work within a common technology stack.
Want to learn more?
We believe that adopting a NetDevOps culture is beneficial to all IT organizations. A good next step would be to meet and discuss how these strategies could address your network operation challenges. We look forward to partnering with you on your NetDevOps journey!