In June 2023 Juniper Network and Smartcom organized an event centered on AI innovation in networking. The first presentation was by Uwe Richter, Director for Central & Eastern Europe (CEE) who talked about the technology, its application and customer success stories. Emil Katzarski presented new developments in Juniper's product portfolio and focused in detail on the AI-integrated devices.
Event context
Today’s digital enterprises are struggling to modernize network operations for a variety of reasons. Their network teams are plagued by skills gaps, with their most elite network engineering talent stretched too thin to enable transformation. Management tools are fragmented, with workflows and data siloed between tools. Meanwhile, network complexity is increasing as enterprises embrace multi-cloud and work-from-anywhere strategies. Finally, security threats continue to multiply, making it essential for network managers to streamline operations and improve visibility.
AI for IT operations (AIOps) can help. AIOps involves the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data to IT data to enhance operations. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recently conducted research into how IT organizations are using AIOps to transform network management.1 The research found that the majority of IT organizations are targeting four use cases for AIOps-driven network management:
- Anomaly detection
- Automatic remediation of security issues
- Intelligent alerting/escalation
- Automatic remediation of IT service problems
