CloudVision 2021 extends cognitive client to
cloud experience
Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced CloudVision® 2021, a
further expansion of Arista's software-driven approach for modern
enterprises. CloudVision 2021 delivers new automation capabilities
designed to improve network agility and streamline enterprise
business outcomes.
“Arista’s solution provided us with the ability to deploy
quickly through automation combined with high-level visibility. It
saved us a lot of time, and we met the goals, which included moving
the entire organization to the new headquarters by the set date.
The CloudVision system provides us with a single unified
observation point for the end-to-end network - and in combination
with end-to-end automation, we have achieved significant advantages
over the old system, including many tangible advantages. In light
of the project’s success, Bezeq decided to install Arista’s
solutions in some of its data centers as well,” said Eldad Piles,
Director of Engineering and Cyber, Bezeq.
CloudVision is a modern software platform designed to bring
cloud network operations to enterprise customers through a
network-wide suite of automation, telemetry, and analytics.
Available for on-premises and SaaS-based delivery, CloudVision is a
multi-domain management plane, enabling operations consistency
across data center, campus wired and wireless, and public cloud use
cases. This uniform approach dramatically simplifies network
operations for Arista customers and channel partners by breaking
down the traditional network management silos. CloudVision 2021
specifically focuses on Arista’s cognitive campus solution with new
capabilities that link user and application experience to network
deployments and operations.
Agility for the Evolving Enterprise
In today’s COVID environment, enterprise network operations
teams have had to adapt their approach for rolling out new network
services to meet changing business needs. To do this in an
automated way, the underlying network needs to evolve from legacy
models based on brittle, command line device control to modern,
abstracted models providing network-wide control.
“Enterprise customers are looking for solutions that maximize
performance, lower operational costs, and enable automation for
today’s distributed workspaces,” said Russ Brown, Sales VP of
Computacenter US. “Arista’s CloudVision 2021 for enterprise
workspaces brings compelling innovation and delivers new ways to
solve end-user requirements using the latest AI, cloud, and
networking technologies."
CloudVision’s existing network configuration management approach
delivers streamlined network provisioning through a centralized
‘configlet’ model that leverages configuration inheritance and
reuse principles. Building on this, Arista introduces CloudVision
Studios: new capabilities for automating configuration workflows
within CloudVision and providing a flexible abstraction between the
business and the underlying network.
CloudVision Studios provides day zero, day one, and day two
workflows through an easy-to-use, point-and-click user interface
without requiring configuration syntax expertise. This expands the
administrative scope to include operators at all levels of ability
to make changes confidently and quickly through the simple GUI
forms. At the same time, operators have the controls to review,
validate, and approve the changes for accuracy and deployment
assurance. CloudVision Studios provide a flexible workspace
approach, starting with built-in workflows for many common
configuration-related tasks, including templating for initial
campus build-outs, workflows for adding incremental network
capacity, and basic day-to-day helpdesk-driven changes. In
addition, CloudVision Studios can be created or customized for any
feature set, avoiding the inflexible ‘wizard’ user-interface
approach found in legacy network management systems.
CloudVision Studios also delivers an abstraction of the network
through modern and network-wide data models. This approach allows
enterprises to automate their day-to-day deployment and operational
networking tasks through a well-defined and flexible framework by
translating their business needs directly into network semantics
and ultimately improving the enterprise experience.
Cognitive Telemetry for Deeper Observability
Arista’s cognitive campus leverages the latest telemetry
capabilities to enable modern network observability. Today’s
network telemetry capabilities have evolved from the traditional
SNMP-based polling models and include state-streaming for real-time
access to continuous network state, predictive analytics for
automated baselining of network trends, and automatic traffic
recording and replay of specific network flows.
A key component of Arista’s cognitive AI-driven approach, this
functionality employs granular data plane telemetry and deep packet
inspection for input into supervised training models used to
baseline the user experience of a particular application. Once the
models have been trained and the baselines are understood,
CloudVision can alert the enterprise network operator of any
application performance issues with automated remediation
recommendations.
CloudVision 2021 now expands our suite of cognitive
capabilities, including:
- New network latency and path selection dashboards - CloudVision
can now receive Inband Network Telemetry (INT) data, a
standards-based capability for exporting latency and path telemetry
and is now available across a suite of Arista’s latest switching
platforms. CloudVision then provides the operator with views of
network congestion hotspots with an unmatched level of granularity,
providing visibility that helps to root-cause network performance
problems across campus and data center networks.
- Quality of Experience (QoE) Dashboard - In addition to video
collaboration tools such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams, CloudVision
now supports QoE monitoring for up to 25 applications, including
Office 365, Google Workspace, Workday, Salesforce, and other
enterprise application suites.
- A Performance Dashboard utilizing a Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
Engine to deliver client-specific views on the end user experience,
including application, radio frequency interference, network, and
client-specific analytics such as DNS and DHCP state to provide a
unified view of the end user experience and automated remedial
action recommendations.
- CloudVision’s Radio Frequency (RF) Explorer delivers in-depth,
live and historical views across the entire WiFi RF spectrum,
delivering a comprehensive tool for monitoring, managing, and
proactively troubleshooting RF-related issues.
- A suite of additional enhancements, including new dashboards
for customizable infrastructure views, an updated events app,
additions to the continuous compliance app for expert insights and
product lifecycle tracking, and integrations with the Arista TAC
knowledge base.
Availability
The new CloudVision 2021 feature sets are in customer trials now
and will be generally available in Q2 2021.
Register to learn more about Arista’s CloudVision 2021 solution
at one of our two upcoming webinars: here for the latest on Arista
Cognitive Wi-Fi for the Distributed Enterprise on April 29th, 2021,
and here for CloudVision Studios: Driving Business Agility with
Network Automation on May 13th, 2021.
Read more about this announcement on Jayshree Ullal's blog
here.
About Arista Networks
Arista Networks is an industry leader in cognitive cloud
networking solutions for large data center and campus environments.
Arista’s award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility,
automation analytics, and security through CloudVision® and Arista
EOS®, an advanced network operating system. For more information,
visit www.arista.com.
ARISTA, CloudVision, and EOS are among the registered and
unregistered trademarks of Arista Networks, Inc. in jurisdictions
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