Network Automation Platforms Reviews and Ratings

What are Network Automation Platforms?

Network automation platforms are products that automate and orchestrate multiple vendors’ network functionality. These platforms support a broad range of capabilities including provisioning, deprovisioning, orchestration, troubleshooting, operations, workflow, configuration management, event-driven automation, validation and reporting. These platforms are well-suited to add value on top of existing point network automation tools by orchestrating end-to-end network workflows across existing automation tools. Network automation platforms interact directly with network devices, other automation and orchestration tools, network management systems/controllers, and/or network services. These platforms increase agility and efficiency of network infrastructure while lowering costs; reducing the amount of manual human errors; and improving compliance with required rules, regulations and laws.

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AlgoSec, a cybersecurity company, has an established focus on facilitating organizations to safeguard application connectivity by automation of connectivity flows and security policy, regardless of location. AlgoSec operates on the crossroads of infrastructure, security policy, and business applications, ensuring increased visibility, risk reduction, and zero-touch change automation across comprehensive hybrid networks

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SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) provides simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software built to enable customers to accelerate their digital transformation. Our solutions provide organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—with a comprehensive and unified view of today’s modern, distributed, and hybrid environments. We continuously engage with IT service and operations professionals, DevOps and SecOps professionals, and database administrators (DBAs) to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available hybrid IT infrastructures, applications, and environments. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK community, help us to address customers’ needs in solutions for observability, IT service management, application performance, and database management now and in the future.

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NetBrain Automation, founded in 2004, provides a no-code network automation and visibility platform. The essential aim is to enable network operators and engineers to enhance their key workflows associated with hybrid network management. Utilizing Intents, NetBrain manages diverse vendor and multi-cloud infrastructures using a top-down method rather than merely on device configuration management. It creates a thorough digital twin of a complete hybrid network, from edge to cloud, comprehensively recognizing each component's role. Consequently, operators and engineers can maintain network stability by managing only their intended outcomes. In particular, NetBrain helps large enterprises and managed services providers to simplify management tasks, reduce repair times, ensure compliance, and gain a top-down understanding of network support for their business needs. The organization is based in Burlington, Massachusetts, with personnel in the US, Canada, Germany, the UK, India, and China.

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As the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corp., ManageEngine empowers you to take control of your IT, from your security, networks, and servers to your applications, service desk, Active Directory, desktops, and mobile devices.

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Skybox Security helps organizations achieve continuous exposure management. Skybox’s platform combines network security policy management and vulnerability threat management for comprehensive visibility, analytics, and automation. Skybox quickly maps, prioritizes, and remediates vulnerabilities while intelligently optimizing network security policies and change management processes across corporate networks and cloud environments.

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BackBox specializes in the development of network automation, security and management solutions. It aids businesses globally in automating complex tasks, maintaining network health and performance, and assuring business continuity while utilizing fewer resources.

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Red Hat specialises in offering enterprise open source solutions. The main business problem it addresses lies within the domain of Linux, hybrid cloud, edge, and Kubernetes technologies. It operates using a communal collaboration method which allows it to provide efficient technological solutions. Its dedicated professionals play an integral role in the idea generation process and problem-solving, resulting in significant advancements in the field.

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AppViewX provides a solution for application availability and compliance. Its main issue resolved is coordinating different tech teams who, despite having a mutual objective, often encounter application downtimes due to conflicting operations. The AppViewX platform brings together the development, IT, and InfoSec teams of an organization by incorporating self-service workflow orchestration. Features include role-based access controls and self-servicing tools. The platform facilitates application delivery by managing digital identities at a large scale, setting up application infrastructure processes, and formulating policies adhering to internal and external compliance standards. This aids in eradicating manual procedures and mistakes, reducing service tickets from several days to mere minutes, simplifying secure application delivery and fostering digital transformation in a single control platform.

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OpenText powers and protects information to elevate every person and every organization to gain the information advantage. As a global Information Management company, OpenText offers a portfolio of solutions across content, business network, digital experience, security, application modernization, operations management and developer APIs. OpenText solutions help customers simplify their systems, connect their data, build frictionless automation and thrive in a multi-cloud world. The company fosters inclusive environments that leverage the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of all employees, customers, suppliers and partners.

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Opinnate, a vendor specializing in network security policy management, offers a product known as the Network Security Policy Manager. The company, founded with a customer-centric background, holds the belief that enhancing security operations through automation is essential, provided that the automation software is both user-friendly and cost-effective in terms of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Opinnate NSPM, available in three-tiered editions, caters to its customers' requirements for firewall analysis, reporting, optimization, and automation.

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Cisco is a company that specializes in networking technologies, particularly Internet Protocol (IP)-based solutions. It was established in 1984 by a group of computer scientists from Stanford University. As of today, Cisco has a global workforce, continuing to innovate in various fields, notably in routing and switching. Adding to its core business, the company also delves into emerging technologies including home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security features, storage area networking, and wireless technology. Moreover, Cisco extends its expertise to offer a sweeping range of services such as technical support and advanced services. The company sells its products and services on an enterprise level, to commercial businesses, service providers, and end-users.

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Park Place Technologies is a global data center and networking optimization firm. Powered by an on-the-ground engineering team, a robust group of advanced engineers and global Enterprise Operations Centers, Park Place helps 21,000 clients optimize data center budgets, productivity, performance, and sustainability to increase staff efficiency and re-allocate resources. From procurement to decommissioning, Park Place’s comprehensive portfolio of services and products helps your IT teams optimize IT lifecycle management. This frees time and spend so you can focus on transforming your businesses for the future. Park Place’s services portfolio includes Third-Party Hardware Maintenance, Professional Services, Managed Services, Network Performance Monitoring Software, and Hardware sales.

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Gluware Intelligent Network Automation specializes in providing services to Global 2000 enterprises. The main business problem it addresses is the effective and swift deployment of network automation in mission-critical networks. Offering both pre-built and customizable solutions, it streamlined services for various vendors, platforms, and domains. The company’s solutions are designed to function effectively on complex networks, boasting a rapid time-to-value.

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Juniper Networks, a Silicon Valley-based technology company, was founded approximately two decades ago by Pradeep Sindhu, Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres. The aim of the company is to develop innovative products and solutions specifically designed to meet the growing demands of our increasingly connected world. The primary focus of their business model is revolutionizing networking. The company's location is in Sunnyvale, California, and it boasts a strong workforce of over 9,000 employees spread across 50 different countries. The services offered by Juniper are utilized by a diverse range of service providers and enterprises across the globe. The company also serves several government agencies and higher educational institutions. Juniper believes in the information superpower of networking and fosters innovation to connect ideas and enable human potential. They aim to develop a network that is intelligent, agile, secure, and open to all vendors and network environments.

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Infoblox unites networking, security and cloud to build a foundation for operations that is as resilient as it is agile. We seamlessly unite, automate and accelerate cross-domain workflows through a single platform, so organizations can move fast without compromise. We’re continually supporting more than 13,000 customers by building diverse teams and by thoughtfully engineering intelligent networking and security solutions for a hybrid, multi-cloud world.

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Red Hat specialises in offering enterprise open source solutions. The main business problem it addresses lies within the domain of Linux, hybrid cloud, edge, and Kubernetes technologies. It operates using a communal collaboration method which allows it to provide efficient technological solutions. Its dedicated professionals play an integral role in the idea generation process and problem-solving, resulting in significant advancements in the field.

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BlueCat Networks, is a provider of mission-critical network and cloud infrastructure software for reliable and secure DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (collectively known as DDI). The company’s mission is to help organizations deliver reliable and secure network access from any location and any network environment.

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Allot Ltd. is an international provider of innovative network intelligence and security solutions. Allot primarily helps service providers and businesses around the globe enhance their customer value. The company's tools are widely utilized for network and application analytics, traffic regulation, network-based security services, among other functions. Various service providers and businesses have adopted Allot's multi-service platforms for their operations. The company's network-based security service is noted for its extensive use in Europe.

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FireMon is centered on enhancing security operations to achieve improved security results. The company provides superior security policy management, cloud security operations, and cybersecurity asset management solutions to enterprises globally. The security policy management platform created by FireMon is a real-time solution addressing firewall and cloud security policy-related risks, undertaking policy changes, and imposing compliance. Besides, FireMon's DisruptOps is a distributed cloud security operations solution capable of detecting and responding to issues in dynamic public cloud environments. The firm also offers Lumeta, a cloud-based cybersecurity asset management solution that has the capability to scan an entire enterprise infrastructure and provide insights into the network's interconnectivity.

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ZPE Systems is a technology company focused on minimizing the complexity of managing critical infrastructure consoles. It leverages its team's cumulative years of experience in the console management sector to ensure secure and reliable access and control. The organization developed NodeGrid Manager, a pioneering tool aimed to deliver vendor-neutral physical and virtual console access and control. The product was developed in light of difficulties faced with proprietary solutions not adapting with change quickly enough. The team’s background includes enhancing console servers with the first Linux-based Break Safe and incorporating IPMI within servers. In addition, they have significantly contributed to meeting security and compliance needs. The team holds 20+ patents, demonstrating their innovation in the field.

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Features of Network Automation Platforms

Mandatory Features:

  • Low-code workflow: This is the ability to create ad hoc dynamic automation workflows, which can incorporate logic based on inputs. This must be enabled via a low-code orchestration UI canvas. Included is the ability to ingest and manipulate data from other systems, such as cloud management platforms, ITSM, APM, DDI, NPM, logging services, version control systems and the like.

  • Core network automation: This includes the ability to automate networking activities in both “brownfield” and “greenfield” environments across multiple network vendors’ equipment, including API, NETCONF or SSH. This also includes the ability to automate networking activities across multiple networking domains (i.e., data center, public cloud, campus, branch, network security, etc.). The platform must provide the ability to adjust network configuration settings on devices directly and adjust settings via network controllers via API. (Network controllers include data center switching fabric managers, SD-WAN orchestrators and public cloud services.)

  • Centralized management: This includes UI with role-based access control (RBAC) and a published RESTful API that exposes 80% of functionality.