Arista Networks Inc. (NYSE:ANET) today announced a disaggregated
offering that aligns to new cloud business models. The Arista
EOS (Extensible Operating System) platform will now be available as
a subscription. With this offering Arista is addressing the business
challenges cloud providers face in building out capacity in advance of
customer demand.
“The traditional up-front CapEx model is not cost efficient for us as a
business as we continue to scale our hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Arista's EOS as a subscription offering, for consuming network
infrastructure, allows us more flexibility in managing our Capex and
Opex spend, allowing Ormuco to continue to provide a competitive and
progressive platform for our customers," said Orlando Bayter, CEO of
Ormuco Communications, a leading global enterprise cloud, managed
services and telecommunications provider.
Arista EOS as a Subscription (EaaS) service is an alternative for
procuring today’s integrated offerings. With the current offerings,
Arista hardware and EOS software are integrated into a single bundle,
mapping to CapEx budget allocations for a perpetual licensing period.
The new software subscription-based licensing model offers customers a
way to better balance their CapEx and Opex budgets.
“The cloud industry is experiencing such rapid growth and demand that it
only makes sense for their business models to evolve as well,” said Zeus
Kerravala, Principal Analyst at ZK Research. “Vendors like Arista that
not only recognize the change but adapt and expand their offerings to
better suit the cloud market are in the best position to lead the market
in building large, scalable modern networks.”
EOS Programmability at Granular Levels for Unified DevOps and NetOps
The Arista EOS platform was designed to meet the demands of cloud
networks from its inception. Arista EOS is uniquely
programmable at all system levels and at multiple points within a
plane. The multiple levels include the Application Plane, Management
Plane, Virtualization Plane, Control Plane, Data Plane and Open Linux
Tools. This level of granularity and automation give customers the
ability to systematically program the network infrastructure and
automate IT workflows.
Arista continues to evolve the EOS platform to the needs of the
software-driven cloud networking community. EOS now includes a
simplified programming model for Python and Ruby scripting languages
through tighter integration with Arista’s eAPI. As a proof point, Puppet
Labs recently introduced the availability of a native Arista EOS Puppet
agent and an Arista EOS module on the Puppet Forge user community.
Arista is the first and only networking vendor supported as part of the
Puppet Enterprise Supported Modules program. Puppet Enterprise can now
seamlessly work with data centers powered by Arista EOS and changes to
the network can happen as part of the application workflow, keeping with
Arista’s tradition of openness without proprietary vendor tools. Along
with Puppet integration, Arista has extensive integration with both
Ansible and Chef DevOps platforms, demonstrating its continued
leadership in this space.
Availability
General availability for Arista EOS as a Subscription (EaaS) is Q2
CY2015.
Arista EOS (EaaS) pricing starts at $495/month for select
fixed configuration products and includes all EOS advanced feature
licenses along with 24x7 A-Care support.
About Arista Networks
Arista Networks was founded to deliver software-driven cloud networking
solutions for large data center and computing environments. Arista’s
award-winning 10/40/100 GbE switches redefine scalability, robustness,
and price-performance, with over 3,000 customers and more than three
million cloud networking ports deployed worldwide. At the core of
Arista’s platform is EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista
Networks products are available worldwide through distribution partners,
systems integrators and resellers.
ARISTA, EOS and Spline are among the registered and unregistered
trademarks of Arista Networks, Inc. in jurisdictions around the world.
Other company names or product names may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
Additional information and resources can be
found at http://www.arista.com
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