SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Forward Networks, the industry leader in network assurance and intent-based verification, today announced that its Forward Enterprise platform has been selected as winner of the "Enterprise Cloud Computing Software of the Year" award in the fifth annual Mobile Breakthrough Awards program conducted by Mobile Breakthrough, a leading […]
Forward Networks has joined a list of vendors on Carahsoft Technology‘s contract with the U.S. Army for commercial off-the-shelf enterprise information technology software, hardware and support services. Forward Networks said Monday its platform, which uses a mathematical model designed to analyze network traffic, is now available to Department of Defense components and other federal agencies […]
Businesses today are rapidly adopting new IT models to keep up with evolving customer needs: virtualization, cloud applications, IoT deployments, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and more. This constant digital transformation has made enterprise data operations and networks incredibly complex – a problem that is only intensifying as time goes on. Enterprise Strategy Group recently […]
If you wait long enough, as any good procrastinator knows, tasks sometimes drop off your to-do list on their own. Maybe a deadline has passed. Maybe your employer has changed direction or shifted priorities. Or maybe new technology has rendered the undertaking obsolete. If you’re an IT administrator who’s been putting off learning Python to […]
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With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical talent, it’s becoming imperative for enterprise network pros to embrace automation of processes and the way infrastructure responds to changing network traffic. Not only can automation help address these problems, they can also improve overall application-response time by anticipating and addressing looming congestion. Modern […]
The average network is a collection of configuration settings that exist in their own little island. They interact with each other and create situations where that interaction causes systemic issues in other places. Half of the job of a network engineer is figuring out those interactions and anticipating how they will impact other parts of […]
Network assurance and intent-based network verification vendor Forward Networks has raised $35 million in a Series C round of funding. Forward Networks said the investment round would go toward expanding its sales and marketing teams into new regions and to fund additional R&D activities. The funding round was led by Goldman Sachs, which is also […]
Telecom network operators are investing in new software and hardware to create faster, more complex networks, but with added complexity comes added vulnerability. Software that automates network management and reduces downtime is extremely valuable to operators, and as networks become more heterogeneous, hardware-agnostic software is generating strong interest across industries. Those are the issues driving […]
In my previous ONUG blog post Query Your Network like a Database, I talked about how companies are embracing Network Automation in order to become more agile. I described how Network Automation can be very powerful but frighteningly dangerous without a proper safety guard. I explained what the Forward Networks Network Query Engine is and […]
Network operations traditionally has been the missing piece in DevOps processes. It’s not difficult to see why. Network management has lagged behind server and workload automation. Updating network policies and configurations typically requires a great deal of analysis, testing and time, undermining the goal of DevOps agility. But once we shift how network devices are […]
Intent-based networking (IBN) is a trend that has been gaining traction in IT in recent years. IBN is the automation of processes that ensure the alignment of network operators’ high-level intent and policy requirements with the design and configuration of the network as a whole. The IBN vision grew out of the need for greater […]
