Mid-market service providers are faced with numerous operations challenges every day. Network rollout, new services and ever-tightening budgets are driving operators to find new solutions, particularly in the area of automation. But service automation and IT automation can be very different matters. Tools that work for data center rollouts may not work for deploying and managing new customer services. Operations managers, network planners and solution architects are asking: what tools are best for service automation, can we automate without a costly consulting project, how would automation affect my operation, could we support it, how can we get beyond CLI-based operations, and what are other mid-market service providers doing?

Your company is looking to move to virtual network devices (VNFs), and it seems like this is a whole new world for network operations. One of the greatest challenges is automating across this new virtual device space. Industry bodies like ETSI have published standards on Management and Network Orchestration (MANO), but it's confusing and complex. Request this briefing to get a primer on the world of MANO, NFV management and related tools and technologies.

Automating the deployment and management of IT infrastructure is crucial to running any IT operations organization. The goal of infrastructure automation is to reduce errors and risk while increasing speed to deploy infrastructure resources. The market is littered with different infrastructure automation tools all claiming to solve your problems, but which tools are right for your organization? WWT has many years of experience automating infrastructure in both our Advanced Technology Center and our Integration Centers. This experience has allowed us to learn the best ways to approach building automation platforms.