Report highlights how infrastructure, operations, and cloud management leaders can scale automation beyond siloed implementations and increase agility by investing in orchestration tooling.
ATLANTA, FEBRUARY 28, 2024 – Itential, the leading SaaS platform for hybrid cloud network orchestration, today announced it has been named a Representative Vendor in the 2024 Gartner® Market Guide for Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration Tools, a new report focused on helping infrastructure and operations leaders understand the market and why infrastructure orchestration tooling is a critical component for transforming their operations.
According to Gartner, orchestration is often an overlooked resource among infrastructure and operations (I&O) teams, who may view it as overly complex, fear the loss of control, or feel daunted by the high skill barrier to effectively implement it. However, the growing integration of cloud services, DevOps, and platform engineering is driving a need for broader infrastructure automation and orchestration to deliver services that satisfy user needs. I&O leaders must transition from merely automating tasks to orchestrating complex workflows that enable the creation of standardized, repeatable, scalable processes to accelerate and optimize infrastructure delivery, mitigate risk, and enable autonomy.
“Customers and the market are maturing in terms of both expectations and capabilities. We’re seeing an evolution from domain-specific automation to infrastructure orchestration, and this new Gartner report highlights the importance of integrated orchestration platforms,” said Chris Wade, CTO Itential. “Itential enables organizations to evolve by providing a platform that orchestrates automation domains, streamlining the delivery of infrastructure services to application developers while ensuring alignment with business and security needs.”
For I&O leaders to move beyond siloed or tactical automation implementations, Gartner recommends evaluating infrastructure orchestration platforms that provide these capabilities:
- Orchestration engine able to execute complex delivery and operational workflows.
- Catalog of integrations to common infrastructure and other tools.
- Supplied and user-generated library of templates defined as code.
- Environments/deployments described and managed as code.
- Self-service portal for end-user interaction.
- API access for deployment of environments/templates.
- API for invocation of workflows.
- Extensible ecosystem to integrate additional security, testing and cost optimization tools.
- Deployment of tooling as on-premises, cloud, or SaaS.
The world’s largest companies use Itential’s automation and orchestration products to deliver services faster, simplify network and infrastructure change management, and maintain security with standardized configuration and compliance. Itential helps to simplify and accelerate the journey from manual IT processes to self-service automation, operationalizing infrastructure orchestration at scale. Itential’s low-code orchestration platform simplifies the creation of automation workflows across all of infrastructure through its patented-approach to seamlessly integrating with any IT system and network or cloud infrastructure technology, enabling teams to rapidly build and deploy end-to-end orchestrations without having to re-train or re-skill.
To access a complimentary copy of the Gartner Market Guide, click here. To learn more about Itential visit www.itential.com.
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About Itential
The rapid, agile, and scalable power of Itential enables the world’s largest companies to use its automation and orchestration capabilities to deliver services faster, simplify network and infrastructure change management, and maintain security with standardized configuration and compliance across hybrid cloud networks. To make automation work as intended, orchestration capabilities and flexible integration are key. Itential provides its customers with the tools to simplify and accelerate their journey from manual IT management to fully orchestrated processes, delivering network services for self-service consumption by IT and application teams. By operationalizing infrastructure automation at scale, along with providing the freedom to integrate with different services, tools, and vendors in their ecosystem, Itential is transforming how organizations manage today’s distributed infrastructure.
Media Contact:
Kristen H. Rachels
Chief Marketing Officer at Itential
kristen.rachels@itential.com
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