Gluware in the News

Vandis, Inc announced today its partnership with Gluware, an industry leader in intelligent network automation. This partnership gives Vandis’ clients a platform to help them simplify network management, enhance security, and accelerate operational agility.

Organizations today operate in increasingly complex, multi-vendor, hybrid network environments. Manual configuration and change management are no longer sustainable—they introduce risk, slow innovation, and strain IT resources.

Vandis announced its partnership with Gluware, an industry leader in intelligent network automation.

This partnership gives Vandis’ clients a platform to help them simplify network management, enhance security, and accelerate operational agility.

Organizations today operate in increasingly complex, multi-vendor, hybrid network environments.

Ernest Lefner, CPO, Gluware gives a sponsored talk at hashtag#AutoCon4 on
“Crossing the Chasm with Gluware”

Ernest talks about how to cross the automation chasm, or the Pareto Priniciple of needing only 20% effort to get 80% value instead of vice-versa.

The chasm is how to take 80% of the effort you need to build a foundational automation capability – training, tools, development. The key is the knowledge that engineers have about the network to drive revenues and business.

When Jeff Gray and his co-founders showed their first network automation prototype to a major network equipment manufacturer over a decade ago, the response was dismissive. The vendor questioned why anyone would want a system that constantly modified network configurations, calling it something that would get “really really busy.” The prevailing wisdom held that networks should be set-it-and-forget-it, with changes avoided to prevent cascading outages.

The AWS outage that took down a sizable portion of the web in October was caused by something almost mundane: automated systems that tried to update the same DNS record simultaneously, resulting in chaos that may have cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Gluware has launched Gluware Titan, a validation architecture designed to bring agentic artificial intelligence (AI) into production network infrastructure with a focus on assurance, compliance, and control. The architecture aims to address concerns from Chief Information Officers (CIOs) about the trustworthiness of AI in critical enterprise networks by providing verification mechanisms for every AI-driven change.

The FBI issued a warning Aug. 20 that the Russian Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Center 16 has exploited a vulnerability in Cisco Smart Install and for the past year has been targeting critical infrastructure sectors in the U.S. and worldwide.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) stated it identified a sophisticated cyber espionage operation targeting critical infrastructure of U.S. and global entities through exploitation of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and end-of-life (EOL) networking devices running an unpatched flaw in Cisco Smart Install (SMI).

The FBI and Cisco Talos have issued fresh warnings about a Russian cyber espionage campaign that has quietly compromised network devices around the world. The threat actor, tracked as Static Tundra, is linked to the Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Center 16 unit and has been active for more than a decade.

In our 24/7 always-on world, networks have become the lifeblood of business, driving how we work, operate, and communicate. Much like the revolutionary impact of cars and mass transit on our physical landscape, networks shape our digital realm, underpinning every aspect of our increasingly connected lives. As the backbone of our digital infrastructure, networks are now as crucial as any physical utility, powering innovation, commerce and communication across industries and continents.

Jeff Gray is the CEO and co-founder of Gluware, the leading provider of Intelligent Network Automation. As CEO, he oversees business operations and strategy, as well as the development of enterprise-leading intent-based network automation technologies adopted by some of the largest Global 2000 enterprises from Pharma to Finance. Gray has been a networking industry leader for decades, starting with the commercial development of innovative high-bandwidth networking solutions as a student at California Polytechnic State University. Gray is credited with bringing the industry’s first SDN orchestration platform to market and achieving significant blue-chip enterprise adoption.

Jeff Gray, CEO of Gluware, highlights the company’s recent venture capital investment and its impact on advancing intelligent network automation. He discusses how AI-driven platforms are transforming enterprise operations by improving agility, security and operational efficiency.