From Scripts to Platforms: Why Homegrown Tools Dominate Network Automation and How Vendors can Help
Category: Research ReportDo-it-yourself (DIY) network automation is everywhere. Regardless of what an enterprise does with the rest of its IT management toolset, network automation is often homegrown and open source. With this research, Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) aims to find out why this status quo persists. It explores the value of this custom approach and the pitfalls. It also examine whether vendors can augment or transform these homegrown approaches without disrupting operations.