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Pari Networks - What does it mean for Cloud Automation

There are three aspects to Cloud Automation:
1. Provisioning
2. Change Managment
3. Security/Compliance

Provisioning is typically across domains and is better enabled by strong service orchestration platforms that understand both the business(CRM/BSS etc) and the technology stack.
Tidal has a edge in this context with its strong background supporting Enterprise Software integration(SAP etc.) and Runbook automation use cases with its flagship product(Tidal Scheduler). Its recent focus on intelligent network automation using tidal enterprise orchestrator platform is paying off. However it's UI capability seems to be weaker than Linesider from a cloud worldview

LineSider addresses provisioning from access management and compliance perspective with decent user inteface and simple VM/appliance based delivery model for demonstrating technical provisioning capabilities.

Today Cisco announced the intention to buy Pari Networks. http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2011/corp_012611.html

Pari has an appliance and software suite to collect and manage changes across Cisco device landscape. It seems to be a good managed services platform for network change managment.

The Angle that may or may not evident is the Cloud Automation capability that can be leveraged with the deep knowledgebase/metadata available in the Pari ecosystem. Pari with its capability to connect to and collect data from the most of Cisco devices has a potential to be a good network automation agent for Tidal. It is a very good start, as feeder for CMDB and as an equivalent to BMC - Bladelogic Network Automation(BBNA) suite. It looks like this platform can address the change managment aspect of cloud environments very well. It fill the key void of resource pools related to licensing and support with its proven smartnet integration.

There is a potential for this Pari appliance to be integrated with Tidal Orchestration for realizing quick and effective cloud provisioning platform.

LineSider is good approach for compliance with policy based networking(using LDAP) where as Pari approach to compliance is more on plumbing of configuration collection by replaying user actions. There is clearly a small overlap between Tidal, LineSider and Pari.

It may not be difficult to reconcile the interfaces and come up with stable systems integration approach that encompases all three cisco products based on the scale and complexity of the assignment. They solve different facets of cloud automation.

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