Guest: Ernest Lefner (LinkedIn)
Company: Gluware (Twitter)
Keywords: NetOps, network automation
Show: To The Point

As the adoption of cloud-native technologies continues to grow, there are going to be some unique challenges for NetOps teams. Ernest Lefner, Chief Product Officer at Gluware, believes that most of it will be from the cultural side where teams will try to figure out doing things differently than the way they have been doing it for years. One of the biggest challenges is going to be about things like “how do you normalize that automation inside of the processes they use today and then connect that to the higher level business processes that all of the companies used to operate IT,” says Lefner.

About Ernest Lefner: Ernest Lefner brings a wealth of industry experience to his role as Chief Product Officer at Gluware. He co-founded ONUG in 2012 to help the user community take control of and accelerate network transformation while holding high-profile executive positions overseeing network transformation programs at Bank of America and EY.

About Gluware: Gluware is the leading intelligent network automation suite for the cloud era, trusted by Global 2000 enterprises across industries. Gluware automates the networks of the world’s largest and most complex enterprises, by simplifying how multi-domain enterprise networks are discovered, analyzed, and maintained. The company’s code-free, intent-based approach to network automation reduces the business risk of unplanned outages and downtime while elevating the performance of people and systems.