Nokia launches industry’s most modern data center automation platform built for the AI era
September 17 2024 - 3:00AM
Press releaseNokia launches industry’s most modern data center
automation platform built for the AI era
- Nokia Event-Driven Automation platform aims to reduce network
disruptions and service downtime by driving human error in network
operations to zero.
- Multivendor solution brings a modern intent-based approach to
network automation, building on Kubernetes.
- Features digital twin capabilities, GenAI assistance, and
integration with wide range of IT service management systems, event
notification systems, and cloud management platforms.
- Decreases operational effort up to 40% by simplifying data
center life cycle operations.
17 Sept 2024Espoo, Finland – Nokia today
announces the availability of its AI era, Event-Driven Automation
(EDA) platform. Nokia EDA raises the bar on data center network
operations with a modern approach that builds on Kubernetes to
bring highly reliable, simplified, and adaptable lifecycle
management to data center networks. Aimed at driving human error in
network operations to zero, Nokia’s new platform reduces network
disruptions and application downtime while also decreasing
operational effort up to 40%.
Ongoing digital transformation and the rise of AI applications,
coupled with data center workforce shortages and skills gaps, are
driving webscalers, enterprises, and service providers to scale and
adapt their data center infrastructures to meet exponential demand
and evolving workload requirements. As more critical workloads move
to the cloud, interruptions in cloud services can have significant
economic, safety and social implications. Increasing automation in
cloud and networking operations is essential to respond to demand
while reducing service disruptions.
Despite the benefits of network automation, a study by
Enterprise Management Associates shows that most organizations have
automated less than half of their data center network management
tasks. Barriers to adopting automation include a lack of scalable,
open, multi-vendor solutions; legacy systems and complexity
requiring skilled resources; and a lack of trust in fully automated
systems delivering the right outcomes.
Nokia’s new infrastructure automation platform is designed to
overcome these barriers while providing a new path to addressing
key challenges in today’s data center network environment.
The risk of human error and associated network downtime is
mitigated through EDA’s integrated digital twin, pre- and
post-deployment checkpoints, highly responsive multi-dimensional
observability, and a robust CI/CD methodology with revision
control. Simplicity in operations is enabled through intent-based
declarative automation, GenAI assistance and a low-code/no-code
approach to building customized dashboards. EDA easily integrates
into multi-vendor, multi-domain environments with support for a
wide range of IT service management systems, event notification
systems, and cloud management platforms.
As a modern software platform, EDA builds on Kubernetes, a cloud
automation and orchestration environment with millions of users
worldwide, for its cloud-based microservices architecture. The
platform adopts Kubernetes constructs to bring an intent-based,
event-driven, and declarative approach to network automation, and
complements it with network-wide transactions. Further, through
leveraging Kubernetes resource model, APIs and toolchain, EDA
enables network resources to be easily consumed in the same fashion
as other data center applications.
EDA is available through on-prem and cloud-based “as-a-service”
subscription models. The EDA app store, a cloud-inspired approach,
allows operators to easily customize their automation
environment.
The new Nokia platform complements the company’s Service Router
(SR) Linux network operating system and extensive portfolio of data
center switching and routing platforms to provide webscale and
enterprise organizations access to fully modernized data center
networks. By breaking down barriers for organizations to adopt
automation in the data center, EDA ushers in a new era of highly
reliable, simplified, and adaptable lifecycle management to data
center networks designed for an AI world.
Roy Chua, Founder and Principal at AvidThink,
said: “Nokia’s decision to leverage Kubernetes for its EDA
platform is a smart move. Enabling the network to be managed and
orchestrated in the same manner as compute will be a
ground-breaking innovation for data center operations staff. EDA’s
focus on enabling network-wide transactions at speed with enhanced
reliability is a key differentiator for automation in swiftly
evolving, business-critical data center environments.”
Vach Kompella, Senior Vice President and General Manager
of IP Networks business at Nokia, said: “Our next
generation EDA platform is a game-changer for data center networks.
By leveraging the power of Kubernetes, we are enabling our
customers to access a modern approach to network automation that
significantly reduces operational effort and helps eliminate human
error. This is a major step forward in our mission to deliver the
world’s most trusted networks.”
Join our Networking Field Day Exclusive event streaming from our
Sunnyvale office on September 24th at 9:00am PDT for a deep
dive into new innovations in data center networking and live
demonstrations of Nokia EDA.
Watch the event here:
https://techfieldday.com/event/nfdxnokia24/
Resources and additional
information Webpage: Event-Driven
AutomationWebpage: Data Center Fabric Webpage: Data
Center Networks
About Nokia At Nokia, we create technology
that helps the world act together.
As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering
networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across
mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, we create value with
intellectual property and long-term research, led by the
award-winning Nokia Bell Labs.
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sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital
services and applications of the future.
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