Arista Networks Enhances CloudVision Platform for Enterprise Network Management

CloudVision Delivers Modern Network Operating Model Across the Enterprise By Investing.com

Multi-domain Network-as-a-Service spans data center, campus, and wide area networks SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), a leading provider of cloud and AI networking solutions, today announced significant new capabilities in its CloudVision ® platform, enabling a modern network operating model for customers. Arista's CloudVision dramatically simplifies operations with automation, observability and zero trust security capabilities across all enterprise networking domains, from campus to data center, WAN, and cloud. This uniform approach helps enterprises save operational expenses by removing traditional network operational silos while delivering reliable and resilient networks. Having first deployed CloudVision in our Data Center, we now have expanded CloudVision to be the automation and day-to-day operations platform for our campus network as well, said Haim Inger, CTO and VP of Infrastructure at Clal Insurance. The benefit of having a single operating model across our enterprise network means reduced training efforts, better control of our potential security risk and faster issue resolution. The Platform for a Modern Network (LON:NETW) Operating Model Arista CloudVision is a multi-domain management platform that eliminates the burden of different network operating models forced on customers by traditional network vendors. Instead, customers benefit from consistent network design, automation workflows, troubleshooting techniques, and expertise across network domains. This modern network operating model is derived from Arista's experience with the largest cloud service providers, who demand the highest quality, reliability, and lack of downtime. CloudVision is democratizing these cloud principles and making them available to customers of all sizes, reducing the cost of network operations, increasing network uptime, and improving security. Built on Arista's unified Network Data Lake (NetDL™) architecture, CloudVision aggregates data from the entire enterprise in one location for advanced automation and analytics and applies predictive insights via Arista Autonomous Virtual Assist (Arista AVA™). This multi-domain approach, expanded with domain-specific capabilities, addresses the needs of the end-to-end enterprise modern networks. CloudVision for the Data Center CloudVision established its foundation in the data center, addressing comprehensive network operations tasks for engineers responsible for operating mission-critical data center environments. State-streaming telemetry continues to give the data center operator unmatched visibility for faster mean-time-to resolution and automated compliance reporting. Arista Validated Design (AVD) driven DevOps pipeline integrations automate the deployment of large network configurations. CloudVision's latest feature set includes holistic, 360-degree observability by integrating application and 3rd-party data into Arista's NetDL. CloudVision Universal Network Observability™ (CV UNO™) leverages advanced machine learning for event correlations across topology-based, time-based, and function-based dimensions. CV UNO drastically accelerates issue detection, inference and resolution, ensuring faster and more precise troubleshooting of application-related problems. CloudVision for the Campus Center CloudVision continues the expansion into the enterprise campus with new guided workflows that address the broader enterprise operator personas. These prescriptive workflows simplify end-to-end operations of campus networks, enabling the operator to efficiently build networks, including day zero pre-provisioning and day one onboarding as well as speeding up day two operations such as making port changes, adding/removing networks, or running diagnostics for quicker troubleshooting. CloudVision also uses generative artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to ease network management and provide faster problem resolution. CloudVision's Ask AVA capabilities allow the operator to ask CloudVision natural language questions, enabling network operators of all levels to navigate the platform and quickly find exactly what they need. CloudVision for the WAN Center CloudVision has expanded further to the enterprise WAN network domain. WAN operator dashboards combine telemetry data for all interconnect networks, uniquely providing a single, end-to-end operational view across the enterprise. CloudVision Pathfinder modernizes WAN management and provisioning, aligning the operating model with visualization and orchestration across all network transport domains. This enables a profound shift from legacy CLI configuration to a model where configuration and traffic engineering are automatically generated, tested, and deployed, resulting in a self-healing network. CloudVision for the Zero Trust Network Enterprise-wide zero trust networking across multiple network domains requires a flexible identity-based microsegmentation service enforced in the distributed network. CloudVision delivers multi-domain orchestration and monitoring services of zero trust policies based on microperimeters, with dedicated, easy to use security dashboards to manage the end-to-end microsegmentation lifecycle across the enterprise. The service integrates with the broader Arista Zero Trust Networking solution, including Arista CloudVision, CV AGNI™ and Arista NDR. It also integrates with industry-leading firewalls such as Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ:PANW), IT service management (ITSM) such as ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW), and virtualization platforms such as VMware (NYSE:VMW). Customers can therefore visualize, operate, and secure the entire enterprise network, from the client to the campus, the cloud, and the data center. Availability Arista CloudVision is available now, including CloudVision UNO, CloudVision Pathfinder, and Multi-Domain Segmentation Services, with these latest CloudVision features available in Q4 2024. For more information, please visit CloudVision on arista.com. To read more about this announcement, please check out this blog by Andre Pech, Vice President of Software Engineering for Arista. About Arista Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large AI, data center, campus and routing environments. Its award-winning platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics, and security through an advanced network operating stack. For more information, visit www.arista.com. ARISTA, AGNI, AVA, CloudVision, CV UNO, EOS, NetDL, and Universal Network Observability are among the registered and unregistered trademarks of Arista Networks in jurisdictions worldwide. Other company names or product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Additional information and resources can be found at www.arista.com. This press release contains forward-looking statements including, but not limited to, statements regarding the performance and capabilities of Arista's products and services. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual performance or results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements, including rapid technological and market change, customer requirements, and industry standards, as well as other risks stated in our filings with the SEC available on Arista's website at www.arista.com and the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Arista disclaims any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.

Arista Networks doubles down on CloudVision - SiliconANGLE

Since it was founded in 2004, Arista Networks Inc. has been known as a company that makes great network switches. This has been done with great hardware and a single, open operating system that spans all its products. In 2015, the company launched "CloudVision," which moved the management, orchestration, and automation capabilities into the cloud. Historically, CloudVision has taken a backseat to Arista's network infrastructure, which makes sense given the switches have been Arista's core differentiator since its inception. This week, Arista announced several updates to its CloudVision platform, making it easier for businesses to manage their entire network -- across data centers, campuses and cloud environments. Typically, organizations need help managing different network parts using separate tools, technologies and operational models. For example, an information technology team might use one set of tools for managing data center operations, another for handling campus networks and another for cloud services. This siloed approach has resulted in higher operational costs and complexity. It has made it harder to coordinate tasks, troubleshoot issues and maintain consistent security across the entire organization. On top of that, it has become more challenging to integrate, expand and upgrade the network. CloudVision aims to eliminate the siloes by unifying network management in a single platform. Originally designed to meet the rigorous demands of cloud service providers, CloudVision now extends these benefits to enterprises of all sizes. CloudVision stands out for its ability to maintain "feature parity" with Arista's Extensible Operating System or EOS. This means CloudVision can support all the same features as EOS without requiring constant updates. In traditional network management systems, updates to network operating systems could result in a lag of 18 to 24 months before management tools catch up. With CloudVision, any new feature added to EOS is automatically supported so enterprises can take advantage of the latest network capabilities without delays. CloudVision is built on Arista's Network Data Lake, a centralized data set that collects and consolidates data from across the network. Using artificial intelligence-driven analytics and predictive insights, network operators can identify and tackle potential issues before they escalate. "Our enterprise approach is to build the best-in-class network," said Jeff Raymond, vice president of EOS product management and services at Arista. "Our open standards, design principles and high availability capabilities -- all allow us to do that. On the operations side, this is where CloudVision comes in, we focus on simplifying and reducing the headcount needed to operate the network. Then, of course, security has become a big part of our story as well." Here's a closer look at how CloudVision supports different network areas: In data centers, CloudVision provides real-time insights and automation for easier network management. CloudVision Universal Network Observability or CV UNO uses machine learning to detect and resolve problems. CV UNO provides a view of network and application data, showing how different parts of the infrastructure interact. This enables faster troubleshooting and more efficient network management. In campus environments, which often involve a broader range of users, CloudVision simplifies operations by offering guided workflows that cover network provisioning, management and troubleshooting. The platform addresses everything from day-zero setup to day-one and day-two operations, such as making port changes, adding or removing networks and running diagnostics. A key feature in campus networks is the Ask AVA autonomous virtual assistant. The generative AI chatbot is integrated into CloudVision and allows operators to interact with the platform using natural language. This makes it easier for non-expert users, such as help desk staff and junior network administrators, to navigate the system. For the wide-area networks, CloudVision provides operator dashboards a view of the WAN connections using telemetry to monitor network health. One of CloudVision's features for WAN management is geographic mapping, which charts WAN links' location and traffic patterns. The platform incorporates dynamic routing, using real-time data to choose the most efficient paths for application traffic. It also integrates with Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services, providing a unified view of both on-premises and cloud-based WAN networks. "The key to our approach is we have this much broader data set, especially with our cloud service offering, where it's global and anonymized," said Raymond. "So we can start to train data and look at a much bigger sample size. This is just the start of what we've built into CloudVision from a generative AI perspective." Lastly, CloudVision enhances zero-trust security through multidomain segmentation. It provides orchestration and monitoring services for zero-trust policies so organizations can enforce security rules based on micro-perimeters. These policies are managed through dedicated security dashboards, making it easier for network operators to visualize and control traffic flow across the enterprise. CloudVision works with firewalls like Palo Alto Networks, ServiceNow for IT management, and VMware for virtualization, giving companies a complete view of their network security. A holistic view helps organizations simplify the management of hybrid environments and maintain consistency across the network. Many enterprises have already adopted CloudVision, starting with data centers and expanding to campus networks, WAN and security environments. CloudVision has evolved and become an integral part of Arista. When customers adopt Arista, CloudVision is automatically included as part of the overall solution rather than an optional add-on. "We have been late to all the markets we've entered, and we've been able to build the product correctly," Raymond said. "It ends up playing out well in the long run. That applies to EOS, our network data lake that we continue to invest in, and CloudVision at the application level." For Arista, it's good to see the focus on CloudVision. Its growth has been driven primarily by its best-in-class hardware and software, with the cloud complementing the strategy. We are rapidly moving into the AI for networking era, creating a disruptive opportunity for the company. My recent AI networking survey found that a whopping 93% of customers will consider changing vendors if the AI capabilities are demonstrably better. AI excellence will be delivered from the cloud, and while CloudVision is a strong platform, there is no clear leader in AI for networking. Raymond was clear there is more to come with CloudVision as Arista looks to leverage the cloud for future innovation.