Brocade Workflow Composer improves business agility through Network Automation

Brocade has announced Brocade Workflow Composer that enables enterprises and Cloud service providers to improve their IT operations and drive greater business agility through Network Automation Platform. Brocade Workflow Composer provides DevOps-style Network Automation for provisioning, validation, troubleshooting and remediation of multivendor networks – while integrating with workflows across multiple IT domains for end-to-end automation. This New IP architecture enables the network to become a platform for innovation and for developing, delivering and securing new applications.

"Embarking on the digital transformation journey can be overwhelming for most organizations requiring changes to the network infrastructure, organizational and operational models and new skill sets. However, when broken down into digestible and evolutionary steps, organizations can navigate the journey at their own pace," said Jason Nolet, Senior Vice-President, Switching, Routing and Analytics Products Group, Brocade.

"One of the first places to start is to bring a new approach to network automation. With Brocade Workflow Composer, Brocade is bridging IT silos and enabling end-to-end automation of cross-functional IT workflows,” he added.

Key Features of Brocade Workflow Composer

• * Software-driven lifecycle management: Brocade Workflow Composer automates the entire network lifecycle ranging from initial provisioning and validation to troubleshooting and auto-remediation.
• * Cross-domain integration: It leverages customizable integration points to recognize events from any network device, cross-domain platform or application, and then invoke action by other tools and applications to execute an automated workflow. Brocade Workflow Composer provides more than 1,900 customizable integration points for popular platforms and applications such as Linux, Windows, vSphere, AWS, Azure, etc.
• * Flexible workflow automation for multivendor networks: It enables IT agility and choice with turnkey, customizable or do-it-yourself network workflow automation -- all supported in multivendor network environments.
• * DevOps-inspired methodologies: Workflow execution is provided by the Brocade Workflow Composer's open, extensible, microservices-based framework. This framework leverages StackStorm, a variety of other popular, open-source DevOps technologies, as well as a thriving community for peer collaboration and innovation.

"The Python library from Brocade Workflow Composer enabled us to decrease our development time from months to weeks, which empowered us to focus on delivering the highest levels of performance and availability to our customers," said Tim Harrison, Product Architect and Technology Advocate, Q9 Networks, Canada's leading provider of outsourced data center infrastructure, which received early access to Brocade Workflow Composer.

"As we continue to optimize and deploy new cloud-based services to support our customers' enterprise cloud requirements, Q9 continues to leverage Brocade Workflow Composer to improve business agility through network automation,” further added Tim.