Today's IT shops are tasked with maximizing network availability, performance, and efficiency, as well as meeting compliance requirements. But, a variety of challenges stand in the way: declining resources and budgets, new security and compliance technologies and requirements, and a lack of integration and automation. This white paper introduces a new approach to network lifecycle management, and explains how this technology provides the following benefits:

• Manage network growth with existing (or fewer) resources
  
• Eliminate error-prone and time-consuming manual configuration changes
  
• Reduce the costs associated with network downtime