What is network automation software? It’s something we’re going to be seeing a lot of in the near future. Networks worldwide continue to grow at astonishing rates to supply organizations with the access and bandwidth they need to operate. But in a survey by Oracle, 76% of respondents said network complexity was one of management’s biggest challenges. As network growth increases—and complexity along with it—we’ll need efficient and scalable ways to handle it.

What’s autorun? Autorun is a feature of the Masterfiles Policy Framework (MPF)1 that simplifies the process of adding and executing new policy. We have talked about Modular policies with autorun and the Augments before. This time, we dig into autorun a bit deeper to explore some of its current features and look at how to implement your own as we did during The Agent is In, Episode 15 - Extending Autorun

It’s difficult for even the most advanced security teams to stay on top of evolving incursions and ensure their processes effectively map to prevent them. That’s where pre-built templates come into the conversation. No-code, security automation templates can handle the considerable burden of having to maintain and update processes that integrate with a company’s security stack.

The enterprise data warehouse (EDW) provides access to business data stored in a denormalized structure called a star schema, which makes it easy to analyze, visualize, and forecast essential business metrics. Business intelligence (BI) reporting makes use of the data warehouse for real-time self-service dashboards, custom visualizations, data marts, decision-making reports, and machine learning (ML).

You must adopt proper infrastructure automation if you want to enable your teams to achieve faster application delivery while eliminating human errors. Automation of servers, deployment environments, configuration management, and deployments play a vital role in getting a competitive advantage for your product. Monitoring both the infrastructure and application is equally important as well. In this article, we will discuss top tools for infrastructure automation and monitoring.

Delivering business-critical applications and code relies on two key factors; functionality and efficiency. Mock and Unit tests are a few industry standards that aim to ensure the correct functionality of your code, catching potential bugs and issues before deployment. These tests are vital to workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and the overall build and deployment process. While functionality may be sound, one key aspect that is oft-forgotten is the efficiency and performance of your code.