

Potential bottlenecks need to be identified before they occur. While enterprises strive for the Holy Grail status of five-nines uptime, latency-sensitive applications require more than mere connectivity. The digital transformation that companies and organizations have undertaken since 2013 has created application dependency workloads that customers and internal users categorically rely on. He went on to say, “CLI is dead, it’s over, we want robots running the network and people building the robots.” At the time, he was referring to software-defined networking, but his vision of automated network management applies to today’s enterprises more than ever. It was over seven years ago when Najam Ahmad, Director of Network Engineering for Facebook spoke at Interop in 2013 and pronounced, “The days of managing networks through protocols and command-line interfaces are long gone.
