Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 16 | Page 32

FEATURE: NETWORK AUTOMATION THE IMPORTANCE OF INTELLIGENT NETWORK AUTOMATION When you consider the lower infrastructure cost, greater agility, and improved security they offer in comparison to public clouds or traditional client-server architectures, it’s perhaps little surprise that a growing number of organisations are investing in hybrid clouds and virtualised, automated data centres, writes Ashraf Sheet, Regional Director, MEA, Infoblox. 32 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com