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The network is still the last manual bottleneck in most enterprise IT stacks.

Network World breaks down NetDevOps: applying CI/CD principles to networking, automated pipelines with pre/post validation, config drift caught automatically, and governance baked in by default.

The reality check? Only 2 to 10% of enterprises are actively doing this today. Risk aversion, technical debt, and skills gaps are holding teams back.

Itential is named among the vendors making NetDevOps a real operational model, not just a concept.

Most teams aren't there yet. The full article breaks down what it actually takes to close the gap. 👇
https://www.networkworld.com/article/971243/what-is-netdevops-and-how-can-it-help-it-meet-business-goals.html?utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=itential&utm_medium=social

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Regex. Jinja2 templates. Show command parsing. Repeat every time your network changes.

That's what network documentation has looked like for a decade.

John Capobianco built a FlowAgent in Itential FlowAI that replaces all of it with a single natural language prompt, and the agent handles the rest:

✓ Full network state discovered with PyATS Genie
✓ 12 automated tool calls in under 2 minutes
✓ Three interactive mind maps generated: exec overview, interface map, routing table
✓ Refresh on demand – always current, always from live state

See how it works:

Network Visualization Through Natural Language Using FlowAI – No Parsing, No Templates, No Code See how a FlowAgent uses PyATS Genie and MarkMap to generate 3 network visualizations in under 2 minutes – no parsing, no templates, no code required.

Itential has been named a Notable Vendor in Forrester’s 2026 Landscape Report for Infrastructure Automation Platforms.

The report examines the infrastructure shift from task automation toward intent-driven ex*****on to assess impact on the market. Here’s what Forrester identified as the top disrupters: next-generation platforms that pair AI reasoning with policy guardrails to deliver governed, adaptive ex*****on across every environment.

That architecture is what Itential was built for. Deterministic ex*****on and agentic reasoning run though one governed platform. RBAC, approval gates, rollback, and audit trails applied to every action, human or AI-initiated.

That's what separates automation platforms built for production from tools that were never meant to scale there.

Explore the key findings 👉 https://www.itential.com/resource/analyst-report/forrester-infrastructure-automation-platforms-landscape-q2-2026/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=itential&utm_medium=social