Hedgehog - A Low-Tech Network Fabric For The Hybrid And Distributed Cloud
Gestalt IT, Thursday, July 18th, 2024
Vendors have long promised a self-driving network that can do all the under-the-hood tuning and adjustment without human assistance. But what enterprises seem to truly want is a network that is low-tech, and low-touch, like the cloud.
Digital environments have grown infinitely more complex, and the solutions that have landed on top of them have only made the job harder for operators.
The complexity of the tasks is on an upward climb, and in practice, the myriad principles and solutions aimed at making networking processes low-effort all feel like different paths leading to the same place - a growing operational burden.
'A lot of products in the past have tried to do intent-based networking,' said Mike Dvorkin, co-founder and CTO of Hedgehog. 'Intent is amazing, but what is going on underneath is always the challenge.'