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Automation strategy

Why Managing Infrastructure Data Demands a Knowledge Graph Approach

Large, complex networks and data center infrastructure pose a scaling challenge for organizations trying to sustain sound automation. Effectively automating complex networks requires going beyond capturing and managing data about what exists and how it should be configured. Data management also needs to represent the complex mesh of relationships among components, as well as the […]

Pete Crocker

Jul 22, 2026

Technical

How to Automatically Run Reachability Checks on Every Network Change

You’d never make a change to your network without running it through ample checks first: Customer traffic must never bypass the inspection layer. EU data must stay in the EU. The audit data store must never be reachable from the guest network. But are you really checking everything? Even complex Python scripts that you continuously […]

Iddo Cohen

Jul 3, 2026

Automation strategy

Struggling With Network Automation? Here’s Your Roadmap

In theory, AIOps sounds great. Tell an agent what to do, and boom your network builds and fixes itself. But we’re nowhere near that yet. Unless they’re assigned a super narrow task, agents hallucinate, they break. At the same time, the pressure to use AI isn’t letting up. So people keep building “assistants” no one […]