CloudVision 2019 platform brings rich suite of
capabilities
Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) today announced CloudVision® 2019,
building upon Arista’s cognitive management plane. The CloudVision
2019 release brings new capabilities and integrations, helping
customers with operational cost reduction, risk management, and
agility in network operations.
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Arista's CloudVision 2019, a modern
software platform for enterprise customers. (Graphic: Business
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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. As part
of Arista’s cognitive management plane framework, CloudVision is a
consistent management plane across data center, campus wired and
wireless, and public cloud use-cases, simplifying network
operations by breaking down the traditional network management
silos.
“Arista has helped Ramsay Health Care to reduce operational
costs through faster mean-time-to-root cause. The Arista
CloudVision platform has become the source of truth for our network
infrastructure and is a critical part of the network operations at
Ramsay Health Care,” said John Sutherland, CIO, Ramsay Health
Care.
Architected for Places-In-the-Cloud
Network operators are striving to improve operations in areas
such as proactive analytics, automated change controls, and
continuous compliance assessment. However, legacy operational
models and brittle management tools have historically left network
operations with limited polling-based visibility and unreliable
device control.
Arista has helped the largest cloud providers drive advancements
in telemetry and automated network operations that improve many of
these same network operations tasks. The principles on which these
large clouds operate can be applicable to the broader network
operations groups, as well.
Arista’s CloudVision platform is designed to harness the
best-practices of the software-driven operations of these large
cloud operators while delivered as a turnkey product for a
streamlined path towards network automation.
Built from the ground-up on a foundational NetDB architecture,
Arista CloudVision is a dramatic improvement over legacy
polling-based network management. All network elements - physical,
virtual, cloud, and containerized - stream real-time telemetric
data back to CloudVision’s big data repository, which creates a
time-series digital replica of the network that enables
administrators to view the state of the network at any point in
time. CloudVision’s analytics engines then churn through the data
sets, providing insights that convert day-to-day operational tasks
from reactive to proactive.
As a centralized management plane, CloudVision can orchestrate
operations of a single, coherent, and elastic pool of virtual and
physical network resources. This capability normalizes the
operating model for network troubleshooting, scale, elastic
expansion and contraction across the enterprise, giving the network
agility to adjust to the business needs.
Key Capabilities in CloudVision 2019
CloudVision has delivered a wealth of advanced capabilities such
as centralized provisioning, end-to-end time-series visibility,
network-wide topology views, compliance reporting, and
analytic-driven event notifications across wired and wireless
networks already in the hands of Arista customers. CloudVision 2019
builds on these capabilities with exciting enhancements to this
platform, including the following highlights:
- Hitless change controls, including customizable workflows to
orchestrate task scheduling, modal awareness, and live change
control monitoring
- Data plane visibility, including the ability to consume
flow-data from sFlow and IPFIX
- Device Analyzer, providing endpoint inventory and behavioral
analysis for all connected devices and helping to proactively
identify security threat vectors
- New topology overlay views, including network events and
segmentation mappings
- Network-wide Search, for tracking down key items across the
historical time-series
- Customizable rules engine, for creating customer-specific
network compliance rules and associated events
Open Third-Party Support
CloudVision has primarily relied on the strong API suite
provided by Arista EOS®. These transactional APIs provide complete
and reliable communication with the device under management,
ultimately improving the operation of the management plane.
CloudVision 2019 allows expanded device visibility, including
native OpenConfig support. This capability brings network
visibility of third-party devices that support OpenConfig into
CloudVision. In addition, CloudVision 2019 supports a new Device
SDK for visibility into legacy platforms that do not support
OpenConfig. Using this SDK, CloudVision can pull visibility metrics
from SNMP-capable platforms, including routers, switches,
firewalls, etc., and bring that into the CloudVision apps. This
capability allows CloudVision to present a broader and more
complete view of the network components.
CloudVision Integration with Red Hat Ansible
Automation
The latest ecosystem integrations are possible via collaboration
with Red Hat Ansible Automation. Building on existing certified
CloudVision Ansible Modules and forthcoming certified Ansible
Collections, Ansible Playbooks used for a variety of DevOps
integration scenarios are now available. CloudVision can both
provide control of the Arista estate while still leveraging the
broader Ansible framework for multi-vendor configuration and image
management.
“Red Hat Ansible Automation is one of the leading DevOps
platforms for infrastructure automation. When combined with
Arista’s leadership in programmable network software, we are able
to bring more agility to network operations and improve efficiency
for our joint customers,” said Peter Sprygada, Distinguished
Engineer, Ansible, Red Hat.
Availability
The CloudVision 2019 software release and Ansible Playbooks for
CloudVision are in customer trials now and will be generally
available in October, 2019.
Register here to learn more about Arista’s CloudVision 2019 at
our webinar on September 26, 2019.
About Arista Networks
Arista Networks pioneered software-driven, cognitive cloud
networking for large-scale datacenter and campus environments.
Arista’s award-winning platforms redefine and deliver availability,
agility, automation, analytics, and security. Arista has shipped
more than twenty million cloud networking ports worldwide with
CloudVision and EOS, an advanced network operating system.
Committed to open standards across private, public, and hybrid
cloud solutions, Arista products are supported worldwide directly
and through partners.
ARISTA, EOS, and CloudVision are among the registered and
unregistered trademarks of Arista Networks, Inc. in jurisdictions
around the world. Other company names or product names may be
trademarks of their respective owners. Additional information and
resources can be found at www.arista.com. This press release
contains forward-looking statements including, but not limited to,
statements regarding the benefits and capabilities of Arista's EOS
and CloudVision software and the enablement of cost savings, risk
management, performance and efficiency. All statements other than
statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed
forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject
to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual performance or
results to differ materially from those expressed in the
forward-looking statements including: our limited operating history
and experience with developing and releasing new products; product,
support or service quality problems; rapidly evolving changes in
technology, customer requirements and industry standards as well as
other risks stated in our filings with the SEC available on
Arista's website at www.arista.com and the SEC's website at
www.sec.gov. Arista disclaims any obligation to publicly update or
revise any forward-looking statement to reflect events that occur
or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were
made.
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Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other
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