Cloudify: End-to-End Orchestration to Deliver a True Software-Driven Network

An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief

If there is one thing that’s clear it’s that the depth and breadth of what organizations must put together and make work is getting more complex. As a result, organizations have been turning to software-driven-everything as a way to cope with both the velocity of change and the management headache it brings. But as technologies such as SD-WAN, IoT, and others proliferate, and as the importance of the edge grows, it is becoming clear that organizations need an end-to-end orchestration tool that enables them to manage their entire environment as an integrated entity if they hope to realize the vision of a true software-driven network.

Open-source provider, Cloudify, aims to help organizations solve this problem. The company’s orchestration platform enables telcos and enterprise organizations to orchestrate and manage complex network environments from the data center to the edge. Application-focused and intent-based, the platform allows operators to define their intended outcomes and then handles the rest.

The end-to-end platform enables users to design, provision, configure, and apply automations across their network, including at the edge. This edge focus is a more recent development for the company, and it claims that it represents a breakthrough in dealing with the complexity and scale that the edge brings — particularly with the large number of distributed locations that most organizations must manage. According to the company, it is its multi-domain capabilities and its ability to perform orchestration at multiple layers that sets it apart.

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