1 min read

Hedgehog is what happened to network automation

Hedgehog is what happened to network automation

One of our customers recently sent us a repost of Bruce Davie's article "What happened to network automation?"  It's indeed a reasonable question to ask "Is it lingering somewhere between fusion power and self-driving cars?"  It's also perfectly reasonable to observe that, "There is a reason why people who can configure BGP correctly in complex environments are highly sought after and widely viewed as wizards."

Bruce notes that  "It turned out that automation was out of reach for most of our [Network Virtualization Platform] customers."  On the bright side, he posits that "I have the impression that the situation improved somewhat with the rise of microservices, and Kubernetes in particular. For all its shortcomings, Kubernetes has brought the automatic provisioning of distributed computing and networking resources to a much larger audience."

It turns out that Bruce has the right intuition.  That customer who sent us his article is indeed no BGP wizard.  In fact, he's not even a network engineer.  He's a DevOps engineer proficient with cloud-native tools like Kubernetes.  And he runs his AI cloud network with Hedgehog and our Kubernetes API.  And yes, the workloads on our automated Hedgehog AI network are training self-driving cars from Volvo and Mercedes.  And no, you don't have to wait for nuclear fusion.  You can download Hedgehog today.  

 

 

The Networking “Aha!” Moment

The Networking “Aha!” Moment

I recently had a huge revelation about networking. You see, I’ve spent almost 25 years working in IT, specifically data communications (yes I’m...

Read More
The Benefits of Containers in SONiC

The Benefits of Containers in SONiC

If you’re into network operating systems like me, then you’ll know that the containerization architecture of SONiC is a huge step forward for...

Read More
AI Needs a New Network

AI Needs a New Network

Most investors associate NVIDIA with GPUs and recognize GPUs as the key ingredient for AI cloud infrastructure. But that’s only part of the AI...

Read More