Arista Networks announced CloudVision 2019, a software platform designed to bring cloud network operations to enterprise customers through a network-wide suite of automation, telemetry, and analytics.
The company said its CloudVision builds on its cognitive management plane framework. The idea is to provide a consistent management plane across data center, campus wired and wireless, and public cloud use-cases. CloudVision includes centralized provisioning, end-to-end time-series visibility, network-wide topology views, compliance reporting, and analytic-driven event notifications across wired and wireless networks/
Key Capabilities in CloudVision 2019:
- 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
https://www.arista.com/en/company/news/press-release/8302-pr-20190917
