Roger Castillo is chief technical officer at AlterPoint, a network change and configuration management provider based in Austin, Texas. He is the technical founder of AlterPoint, having conceived and developed the company's NetworkAuthority solution. AlterPoint has integrated the ZipTie open source inventory framework into its NetworkAuthority suite of network automation, CMDB and life-cycle management solutions. As a result, AlterPoint's customers are not dependent upon AlterPoint or network equipment vendors to provide scripts, change templates, rules, policies, adaptors, plug-ins, best practices or other management components.
Open source projects have had a significant impact in areas such as operating
systems (Linux), databases (MySQL), web applications (Apache), and
development tools (Eclipse). However, they have been slower in reaching other
areas where open standards and community involvement can make an equally
positive impact. Given the new focus on automation for enterprise network
infrastructures, network inventory and configuration management is one such
area ripe for hosting a vibrant open source community.
Managing network inventory has been historically difficult due to the lack of
configuration management standards in networking and the wide array of
network vendors and devices that have emerged over the last ten years. To
compound the situation, a lack of open management standar... (more)
Enterprise networks are growing increasingly complex. Over the past five
years, the increased focus on unified security, network optimization, and
application acceleration has resulted in an explosion of new technologies,
specialty devices, and vendors. The proliferation of high-speed connectivity
networks and logical overlay networks – all running over the same
physical links &nda... (more)
Roger Castillo is chief technical officer at AlterPoint, a network change and configuration management provider based in Austin, Texas. He is the technical founder of AlterPoint, having conceived and developed the company's NetworkAuthority solution. AlterPoint has integrated the ZipTie open source inventory framework into its NetworkAuthority suite of network automation, CMDB and life-cycle management solutions. As a result, AlterPoint's customers are not dependent upon AlterPoint or network equipment vendors to provide scripts, change templates, rules, policies, adaptors, plug-ins, best practices or other management components.
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