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Transform Your Data Center: Achieve Agility, Performance, and Security with Intelligent Network Modernization

Outdated networks bottleneck innovation and expose critical business operations to unnecessary risk. As demands from cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and distributed applications intensify, legacy data center infrastructure struggles to keep pace. Intelligent Visibility delivers expert data center modernization and data center transformation services, engineering the resilient, automated, and cloud-ready network infrastructure your business requires to thrive in the digital era. Navigating the complexities of modern IT requires a partner with deep technical expertise and a proven track record of delivering tangible outcomes.

The Imperative for Change: Understanding Data Center Network Modernization

The network serves as the central nervous system of the modern enterprise, connecting users, applications, and data across increasingly distributed environments, spanning on-premises data centers, public and private clouds, and the network edge. Consequently, network modernization is not merely an upgrade of physical components; it represents a fundamental, strategic overhaul of the data center's connectivity fabric. This modernization is essential to support contemporary applications, dynamic workflows, and evolving business objectives. It entails adopting new architectures, advanced technologies, and agile operational models designed for today's digital demands.

Legacy network architectures, often built around rigid three-tier models, were designed for a different era – one dominated by predictable north-south traffic patterns characteristic of client/server applications housed within the physical data center. These traditional designs are inherently ill-suited for the demands of modern workloads, which feature significant east-west traffic flows (server-to-server communication), virtualization, containerization, and seamless integration with cloud services. Modern data centers necessitate network infrastructure capable of delivering high-speed, low-latency connectivity, scalable segmentation, robust security, and extensive automation.

What is "Data Center Modernization"?

Data Center Modernization refers to the comprehensive process of updating and optimizing a data center's infrastructure, encompassing hardware, software, networking, and facilities, along with its operational processes. The primary goal is to enhance efficiency, boost performance, improve reliability, strengthen security, and increase overall agility. It's about transforming the data center to function more effectively, meeting both current operational requirements and future strategic needs. This modernization is critical for securing sensitive data, managing information assets efficiently, and serving as a cornerstone for broader digital transformation initiatives. Undertaking data center modernization is often considered a vital component of any comprehensive IT modernization strategy.

What is "Data Center Transformation"?

Data Center Transformation signifies a more profound and strategic shift compared to modernization. It involves fundamental changes to the data center's architecture, operational models, and overall design philosophy to achieve radical improvements in performance, efficiency, agility, scalability, and adaptability to emerging technologies. Transformation aims to tightly align the data center's capabilities with overarching business objectives, positioning the organization to capitalize on future technological advancements and maintain a competitive edge. This often involves embracing entirely new paradigms, such as extensive cloud integration (hybrid or multi-cloud), software-defined infrastructure (SDI), hyperconverged systems, and pervasive automation. It's driven by the strategic necessity to be highly responsive to dynamic market conditions and evolving customer expectations.

Why Modernization and Transformation are Critical

Continuing to rely on outdated data center infrastructure is no longer a viable option for forward-thinking organizations. Legacy systems inevitably lead to significant operational inefficiencies, escalating maintenance costs, limitations in scalability, increased exposure to security vulnerabilities, and an inability to support innovation. The network, in particular, becomes a bottleneck, hindering the performance of modern applications and slowing down critical business processes.

Conversely, investing in data center modernization and data center transformation, with a specific focus on the network, unlocks substantial strategic advantages. A modern, agile infrastructure provides the essential foundation for critical business initiatives, including comprehensive digital transformation programs, the adoption of AI and machine learning workloads, effective support for hybrid work models, and the delivery of superior customer experiences. Delaying these necessary upgrades not only hampers internal progress but also risks ceding competitive ground to rivals who are actively modernizing their own capabilities. The network has evolved from a simple utility to a strategic enabler, and its modernization is paramount for future success.

Why Modernize Your Data Center Network Now? Drivers and Challenges

The decision to undertake data center modernization is driven by a confluence of pressing technical and business factors. It also presents significant challenges that demand careful consideration and expert navigation.

Key Drivers Pushing for Modernization

Organizations are compelled to modernize their data center networks due to a range of interconnected pressures:

Aging Infrastructure & Technical Debt: Much existing data center hardware and software is approaching or has surpassed its end-of-life or end-of-support milestones. This leads to escalating maintenance costs, a lack of modern features needed for current applications, and increased risk of failures. The accumulation of technical debt over time creates significant hurdles to innovation and agility.

Performance and Scalability Demands: Modern applications, particularly those involving AI/ML, high-performance computing (HPC), and big data analytics, require substantially higher network bandwidth (100G, 400G, and beyond) and lower latency than legacy networks can provide. The exponential growth in data generation necessitates infrastructure that can scale efficiently and cost-effectively. Legacy systems often struggle to meet these demands, leading to performance bottlenecks.

Enhanced Security Requirements: The sophistication and frequency of cyber threats continue to rise. Legacy networks often lack the architectural flexibility to implement modern security paradigms like Zero Trust and micro-segmentation effectively. Modernization is crucial for addressing vulnerabilities inherent in older systems, improving threat detection and response, and ensuring compliance with increasingly stringent data privacy regulations.

Cloud Integration (Hybrid/Multi-Cloud): The reality for most enterprises is a hybrid or multi-cloud environment. Establishing seamless, secure, and high-performance connectivity between on-premises data centers and various public/private cloud platforms is essential for workload mobility and data sharing. Traditional WAN and data center network designs were not architected for the complexities of cloud integration.

Operational Inefficiencies & Cost Reduction: There is a strong drive to reduce the operational burden on IT teams through automation and orchestration, minimizing manual configuration and troubleshooting tasks. Modernization also offers opportunities to lower energy consumption through more efficient hardware and cooling, consolidate the hardware footprint, and ultimately reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO).

Business Agility and Innovation: Competitive pressures demand that businesses deploy new applications and services faster, adapt quickly to market shifts, and pursue digital transformation initiatives. A modern, programmable, and automated network infrastructure is a key enabler of this required business agility.

Support for New Technologies: Emerging technologies like AI/ML, the Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing, and containerized microservices place new demands on the network. Modernization provides the necessary foundation in terms of bandwidth, latency, security, and manageability to support these innovations.

Sustainability Goals: Increasing focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria is driving organizations to reduce their carbon footprint. Modern, energy-efficient network equipment and optimized designs contribute significantly to achieving sustainability targets.

Common Challenges in Data Center Modernization

While the drivers are compelling, the path to modernization is not without obstacles:

Complexity: Integrating new technologies (like SDN, EVPN/VXLAN, automation tools) with existing legacy systems creates significant complexity. Managing hybrid environments and uncovering hidden interdependencies between applications and infrastructure requires deep expertise.

Cost and Budget Constraints: Modernization projects require substantial upfront capital investment. Without meticulous planning and realistic budgeting, projects can easily face cost overruns and delays.

Risk of Downtime and Disruption: Migrating critical applications and network services carries inherent risks of disrupting business operations. Minimizing downtime requires careful planning, phased approaches, robust testing, and well-defined rollback strategies.

Data Migration Complexity and Security: Moving large volumes of data between systems or locations is complex and time-consuming. Ensuring data integrity throughout the process and maintaining robust security to prevent breaches during migration are paramount.

Skills Gap: Many internal IT teams lack the specialized expertise required to design, implement, and manage modern network technologies like software-defined networking (SDN), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), advanced security architectures, and cloud networking platforms.

Compatibility Issues: Ensuring interoperability between new and existing systems during the transition period is a common challenge, potentially leading to operational friction or unexpected behavior.

Vendor Lock-in: Choosing proprietary solutions can limit future flexibility and potentially lead to higher long-term costs. Strategies should consider open standards and interoperability where possible.

Supply Chain Issues: Global supply chain disruptions can lead to significant delays in procuring necessary hardware components like switches, routers, servers, and power equipment, impacting project timelines.

Power and Cooling Constraints: Modern high-performance computing and networking hardware, especially GPUs used for AI, consume significantly more power and generate more heat, potentially exceeding the capacity of existing data center facilities.

Acknowledging these drivers and challenges is the first step toward developing a successful modernization strategy. The complexities involved underscore the need for careful planning, deep technical expertise, and often, the guidance of an experienced partner.

The Technology Blueprint for Modern Data Centers

Achieving the goals of data center modernization requires a shift towards new network architectures and the adoption of key enabling technologies. These components work together to create a flexible, scalable, secure, and automated foundation for modern applications and workloads.

Foundational Architectural Shifts

Two core architectural changes underpin modern data center networks:

Leaf-Spine Architecture: Replacing the traditional hierarchical three-tier (core, aggregation, access) network design, the leaf-spine topology offers significant advantages for modern data centers. It provides predictable, low-latency performance and high east-west bandwidth crucial for server-to-server communication, virtualization, and distributed applications. This architecture scales horizontally more easily by adding more leaf or spine switches as needed. Intelligent Visibility possesses deep expertise in designing and implementing robust leaf-spine fabrics.

EVPN/VXLAN Overlays: Ethernet VPN (EVPN) with Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) provides a powerful network overlay technology. VXLAN encapsulates Layer 2 Ethernet frames within Layer 3 UDP packets, effectively creating virtual networks (tunnels) that span across the physical IP-based underlay (often the leaf-spine fabric). EVPN serves as the control plane for VXLAN, efficiently distributing MAC addresses and IP information. Together, they enable massive scalability in network segmentation (supporting potentially millions of virtual networks), facilitate workload mobility across physical racks or even data centers, allow for multi-tenancy, and provide the foundation for micro-segmentation security policies. Intelligent Visibility leverages EVPN/VXLAN extensively in its modern network designs.

Key Technology Components

Building upon these architectural foundations, several key technologies are integrated:

High-Performance Switching: The demand for bandwidth continues to escalate. Modern data centers rely on high-density switches supporting speeds of 100 Gbps, 400 Gbps, and increasingly 800 Gbps to handle demanding workloads like AI/ML training, large data transfers, and high-performance storage. Deep-buffered switches are often employed to absorb traffic bursts and prevent packet loss, ensuring reliable performance for sensitive applications. Intelligent Visibility designs prioritize these high-performance fabrics.

Software-Defined Networking (SDN): SDN decouples the network's control plane (decision-making) from the data plane (forwarding). This allows for centralized management, programmability via APIs, and automation of network configuration and provisioning. SDN enhances agility, simplifies operations, enables network-wide policy enforcement, and facilitates integration with cloud orchestration platforms.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI): HCI platforms integrate compute, storage, and networking resources into a single, software-defined system, typically running on standard x86 hardware. This simplifies infrastructure deployment and management, improves scalability, and can reduce the physical footprint and associated power/cooling costs compared to traditional siloed infrastructure.

Automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Automation is no longer optional; it's essential for managing modern data center networks efficiently and consistently. IaC applies software development practices to infrastructure management, using tools like Ansible, Terraform, and configuration management systems, often integrated with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines. This approach enables automated provisioning, configuration drift detection, repeatable deployments, and reduced risk of human error. Intelligent Visibility champions an "Automation-First" methodology, offering services to design and implement IaC frameworks.

Advanced Security (Zero Trust & Micro-segmentation): The traditional perimeter security model is insufficient. Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) operates on the principle of "never trust, always verify," requiring strict identity verification and least-privilege access for every user and device, regardless of location. Micro-segmentation, often enabled by technologies like EVPN/VXLAN, SDN controllers, and next-generation firewalls, involves dividing the network into small, isolated security segments (down to the individual workload level). This drastically limits the lateral movement of attackers if a breach occurs. Intelligent Visibility incorporates Zero Trust principles into its network designs.

Full-Stack Observability & AIOps: Comprehensive visibility across the entire IT stack – network, compute, storage, applications, cloud services – is critical for troubleshooting, performance optimization, and security monitoring. Modern observability platforms collect telemetry data (metrics, logs, traces) from diverse sources, providing real-time analytics and correlated insights. Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) leverages machine learning to analyze this data, enabling predictive monitoring, automated anomaly detection, and faster root cause analysis. Intelligent Visibility provides expertise in implementing and integrating these observability solutions.

Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Integration

Modern data center strategies inherently involve cloud integration. The network architecture must facilitate secure, reliable, and performant connectivity to one or more public cloud providers (like AWS, Azure, GCP). This involves:

Dedicated Interconnects: Utilizing services like AWS Direct Connect or Azure ExpressRoute to establish private, high-bandwidth connections between the on-premises data center and the cloud provider's network.

Multi-Cloud Networking Solutions: Implementing technologies and strategies (e.g., multi-cloud SDN controllers, transit networks) to manage routing, security policies, and automation consistently across different cloud environments.

API-Driven Orchestration: Leveraging APIs to automate the provisioning and management of network resources both on-premises and in the cloud, ensuring consistency and agility.

Intelligent Visibility offers specialized design services for building these critical hybrid and multi-cloud interconnects and architectures. This integrated technology blueprint provides the capabilities necessary to meet the demands of modern business applications and digital initiatives.

Unlocking Business Value: The Benefits of Data Modernization

Investing in data center modernization, particularly focusing on the network infrastructure, transcends mere IT upgrades; it delivers substantial and measurable business value. The benefits of data modernization manifest across various operational and strategic dimensions, ultimately contributing to enhanced competitiveness and growth.

Improved Performance & Reduced Latency: Modern network architectures like leaf-spine, coupled with high-speed switching (100G/400G+), drastically reduce network latency and increase throughput. This translates directly to faster application response times, quicker data processing for analytics and AI/ML workloads, and a significantly improved end-user experience.

Enhanced Security & Compliance: Implementing Zero Trust principles and micro-segmentation capabilities (enabled by EVPN/VXLAN, SDN, and advanced firewalls) significantly reduces the network attack surface and limits the potential impact of breaches. Automation facilitates consistent policy enforcement, while enhanced observability enables faster threat detection and response. This robust security posture makes it easier to meet stringent industry compliance requirements.

Increased Agility & Flexibility: Technologies like SDN and extensive automation allow for the rapid provisioning and modification of network services, often reducing deployment times from weeks or months to days or hours. This agility enables businesses to respond quickly to changing market demands, deploy new applications faster, and scale resources dynamically (up or down) as needed.

Improved Scalability: Modern network designs based on leaf-spine architectures and overlay technologies like EVPN/VXLAN are inherently more scalable than legacy models. They allow organizations to seamlessly handle exponential growth in data volumes, user connections, and application deployments without requiring fundamental architectural overhauls. Scalability extends across hybrid environments, allowing resources to span on-premises and cloud infrastructure effectively.

Reduced Operational Costs & TCO: Automation significantly reduces the need for manual configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance, freeing up valuable IT staff for more strategic initiatives and lowering operational expenditures (OpEx). Infrastructure consolidation (through virtualization and HCI) and the use of energy-efficient hardware can reduce capital expenditures (CapEx), power consumption, and cooling costs. Optimized resource utilization further contributes to a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).

Increased Reliability & Availability: Resilient network designs incorporating redundancy at multiple levels (e.g., dual-homed servers, multiple spine switches, multi-path routing) minimize single points of failure. Automated failover mechanisms and proactive issue detection through advanced observability platforms and AIOps significantly reduce downtime and improve overall service availability.

Enabling Innovation & Digital Transformation: Ultimately, a modernized data center network serves as the critical foundation for innovation. It provides the necessary performance, security, and scalability to adopt and leverage transformative technologies like AI/ML, IoT, and edge computing. This enables businesses to develop new digital services, improve customer experiences, accelerate time-to-market, and execute their broader digital transformation strategies effectively.

These benefits are often interconnected; for instance, increased automation not only reduces costs but also enhances agility and reliability by minimizing human error. The following table illustrates how these technical benefits translate into tangible business outcomes:

Benefit

Technology Enablers

Business Outcome

Improved Performance

High-Speed Switching (100G+), Leaf-Spine, Low Latency

Faster Application Response, Enhanced User Experience, AI/ML Readiness

Enhanced Security

Zero Trust, Micro-segmentation, Automation, Observability

Reduced Breach Impact, Improved Compliance Posture, Lowered Risk Profile

Increased Agility

SDN, Automation (IaC), Cloud Integration, APIs

Faster Service Deployment, Quicker Response to Market Changes, Increased Innovation

Improved Scalability

Leaf-Spine, EVPN/VXLAN, Cloud Integration, HCI

Support for Growth (Data, Users, Apps), Elastic Resource Allocation

Reduced Costs (TCO)

Automation, Consolidation, Energy Efficiency, HCI

Lower OpEx & CapEx, Improved Resource Utilization, Sustainable IT Operations

Increased Reliability

Redundant Design, Automated Failover, AIOps, Observability

Reduced Downtime, Improved Business Continuity, Higher Service Availability

Enabling Innovation

All Modernization Components

Support for New Technologies (AI, IoT), Accelerated Digital Transformation

Investing in data center modernization is an investment in the future capabilities and competitiveness of the business.

Charting Your Course: A Strategic Approach to Data Center Modernization

Embarking on a data center modernization or data center transformation journey requires more than just acquiring new technology; it demands a well-defined, structured data center modernization strategy. Such a strategy is essential for navigating complexity, mitigating inherent risks like downtime and cost overruns, and ensuring the final solution aligns precisely with overarching business objectives. Recognizing that every organization's needs, existing infrastructure, and goals are unique, a tailored approach is crucial, as a one-size-fits-all plan is rarely effective. A phased methodology provides clarity and control throughout the process.

Phase 1: Assessment & Discovery

This foundational phase involves a deep dive into the current state and future requirements. Key activities include:

Comprehensive Environment Evaluation: Cataloging existing hardware and software assets, analyzing the physical and logical network topology, mapping critical application dependencies and data flows, identifying performance bottlenecks, assessing the current security posture and vulnerabilities, and reviewing existing operational processes and tools.

Business Requirements Gathering: Collaborating with stakeholders across IT and business units to understand strategic goals, specific application requirements, budget constraints, acceptable risk levels, and desired project timelines. Identifying key personnel and decision-makers is also vital.

Advanced Discovery Techniques: Modern observability and application dependency mapping tools can provide crucial insights into complex interactions that manual assessments might miss.

Phase 2: Planning & Strategy Definition

Based on the assessment findings, this phase focuses on defining the path forward:

Objective Setting: Clearly articulate the specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals for the modernization project. Examples include reducing latency for specific applications, achieving a certain level of automation, enhancing security posture to meet compliance mandates, or reducing TCO by a target percentage.

Strategy Development: Formulate the high-level data center modernization strategy. This involves selecting the most appropriate approach (e.g., incremental upgrades, full infrastructure replacement, hybrid cloud integration, data center consolidation) and identifying the target technologies and architectures (e.g., leaf-spine with EVPN/VXLAN, SDN implementation, specific automation tools) that best align with the defined objectives.

Roadmap Creation: Develop a detailed roadmap outlining project phases, key milestones, critical dependencies between tasks, required resources (personnel, budget), and estimated timelines. This includes creating a specific migration strategy for applications and data, along with contingency and rollback plans to mitigate risks during execution. Capacity planning for future growth should also be addressed.

Phase 3: Design (HLD & LLD)

This phase translates the strategy into a detailed technical blueprint:

High-Level Design (HLD): Define the overall network architecture, specifying major technology components, key integration points with existing systems or cloud environments, the overarching security framework, and how the design meets the business goals established earlier.

Low-Level Design (LLD): Provide granular details necessary for implementation. This includes specific device configurations, IP addressing schemes, VLAN structures, routing protocols, security policy rules, detailed network diagrams, and step-by-step implementation procedures or configuration templates.

Technology & Vendor Selection: Based on requirements and design constraints, evaluate and select specific hardware and software vendors and products. The design must ensure scalability, resilience, security, and long-term manageability.

Phase 4: Implementation & Migration

This is the execution phase where the design is brought to life:

Procurement & Deployment: Acquire the selected hardware and software components and physically install them in the data center environment.

Configuration: Configure network devices, servers, storage, and security appliances according to the detailed specifications outlined in the LLD.

Migration Execution: Carefully execute the migration plan, which may involve a phased rollout (migrating applications or services in batches) or a cutover approach (switching over during a planned maintenance window). This includes data migration, workload transfer, and service transition. Minimizing downtime and business disruption is a primary focus.

Automation Implementation: Deploy and test automation scripts, IaC templates, and orchestration workflows developed during the design phase.

 

Phase 5: Validation & Testing

Before going live or completing the handover, rigorous validation is essential:

Comprehensive Testing: Conduct thorough testing to verify functionality, measure performance against baseline metrics, validate security controls, test failover mechanisms, and ensure integrations are working as expected. This includes network connectivity, application accessibility, and security policy enforcement.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT): Engage end-users or application owners to test critical business processes on the new infrastructure to confirm it meets their requirements.

Requirements Validation: Ensure the implemented solution meets the original objectives and technical specifications defined in the planning and design phases.

Phase 6: Handover, Management & Optimization

Modernization doesn't end with deployment; ongoing management is key to realizing long-term value:

Knowledge Transfer & Documentation: Provide comprehensive documentation, including network diagrams, configuration details, operational procedures (runbooks), and conduct training sessions for the internal IT team to ensure they can effectively manage the new environment.

Ongoing Monitoring & Management: Implement robust monitoring using observability platforms established during the project. Establish processes for ongoing management, including performance tuning, capacity management, and incident response.

Continuous Optimization: Review performance metrics, security posture, and operational costs regularly. Use insights from observability and AIOps tools to proactively identify areas for improvement and optimize the environment over time. This includes managing the software and hardware lifecycle through regular patching and updates.

Following a structured strategic approach like this significantly increases the likelihood of a successful data center modernization project that delivers on its promised benefits.

Intelligent Visibility: Your Partner in Data Center Modernization and Transformation

Successfully navigating the complexities of data center modernization and executing a seamless data center transformation demands more than just technology; it requires deep engineering expertise, strategic foresight, and a partner committed to your outcomes. Intelligent Visibility stands apart through its engineer-led, outcome-focused methodology, ensuring that technology investments translate directly into tangible business value.

Why Partner with Intelligent Visibility?

Choosing the right partner is critical. Intelligent Visibility brings a unique blend of technical depth and operational discipline to every engagement:

Engineer-Led, Outcome-Focused: Our solutions are designed and delivered by experienced senior engineers, not just sold off a line card. We focus on solving high-impact business problems—enhancing performance, bolstering security, enabling agility—with clearly defined, measurable outcomes aligned to your strategic goals.

Proven Delivery Excellence: We pride ourselves on a 100% project delivery success rate for committed projects. Our meticulous planning, tailored scoping, and rigorous execution minimize risks and ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.

Built for Scale & Sustainability: Our designs prioritize automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and adherence to open standards. This ensures solutions are not only effective upon deployment but are also repeatable, manageable, scalable, and sustainable for long-term success, avoiding vendor lock-in where possible.

Operational Readiness: We emphasize comprehensive documentation, custom runbooks, and thorough knowledge transfer to empower your internal teams. Our solutions are designed to integrate seamlessly with your existing observability, support, and operational workflows, ensuring a smooth transition and ongoing manageability. We adhere to ITIL 4 best practices in our service delivery.

Clarity, Not Complexity: We aim to cut through the "drama" often associated with complex IT projects, providing clear communication, transparent processes, and predictable results.

Our Core Expertise

Intelligent Visibility possesses deep expertise across the critical domains required for successful data center network modernization:

Network Infrastructure: Mastery in designing, implementing, and managing modern network foundations, including core routing, high-performance switching, SD-WAN, SASE integration, Wi-Fi, and private fiber networks. We specialize in complex data center fabrics utilizing Leaf-Spine architectures and EVPN/VXLAN overlays on leading platforms like Arista and Cisco.

Data Center & Hybrid Cloud: Proven experience in modernizing legacy data centers, architecting secure and scalable network connectivity for hybrid and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure), implementing robust cloud interconnects (Direct Connect, ExpressRoute), and leveraging Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) principles.

Network Security: Expertise in designing and deploying comprehensive security solutions, including advanced network segmentation, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) architectures, next-generation firewall implementation and migration (including Palo Alto Networks), policy translation, and Network Access Control (NAC) design.

Automation & IaC: Extensive capabilities in helping organizations adopt modern automation practices. This includes designing and implementing IaC frameworks using Ansible and Terraform, building CI/CD pipelines for network changes, integrating with Source-of-Truth (SoT) systems like NetBox, and automating the provisioning and validation of network devices. Our proprietary NetMāgus platform can further accelerate automation initiatives.

Observability: Specialization in designing and implementing full-stack observability solutions that provide deep visibility across network, infrastructure, cloud, and applications. We leverage leading platforms and integrate telemetry data to provide AI-driven insights, automated anomaly detection, and accelerated troubleshooting.

Relevant Services for Your Modernization Journey

Intelligent Visibility offers a comprehensive suite of professional and managed services that map directly to the phases of your data center modernization strategy:

Advisory & Architecture Services: Strategic guidance during the crucial planning and design stages. Services include existing architecture validation, new reference design creation, technology/platform comparisons, operational impact analysis, cost modeling, policy development, and the creation of detailed modernization roadmaps.

Network Design & Implementation: End-to-end services for building your modern network fabric. This encompasses leaf-spine/EVPN-VXLAN design, high-performance switching implementation (100G/400G+), hybrid/multi-cloud interconnect design, firewall refreshes, routing re-architecture, NAC deployment, and full site turn-up and cutover execution.

Migration & Upgrades: Expert execution of complex migration projects, including phased or single-window data center migrations, firewall platform transitions with policy optimization, and infrastructure lift-and-shift initiatives to cloud or hybrid environments.

Automation & DevOps Services: Enabling operational efficiency through automation. Services include IaC framework design (Ansible, Terraform), SoT integration (NetBox, CMDBs), GitOps pipeline implementation for network change control, and building CI/CD processes for infrastructure automation.

Observability Implementation & Optimization: Deploying and tuning full-stack observability platforms, integrating diverse telemetry sources, building customized dashboards, configuring intelligent alerting, and enabling AIOps capabilities for proactive management.

Co-Managed Services (Aegis Suite): Extending your team's capabilities for long-term operational success. Our Aegis suite provides ongoing support, including Aegis PM for managed observability and performance monitoring, Aegis IR for tiered incident response and root cause analysis, Aegis CM for managing network changes and policy updates, and Aegis LM for critical software lifecycle management (patching, OS updates). These services address skills gaps, reduce operational burden, and ensure your modernized infrastructure remains optimized, secure, and resilient.

Partnering with Intelligent Visibility provides access to the expertise, processes, and commitment needed to successfully transform your data center network and achieve your strategic business objectives.

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