Improved Network Reliability Reported for 95% of US Businesses with NetOps Automation
Opengear research reveals the importance of automating network management to prevent outages
EDISON, N.J. — Nearly half (48%) of senior IT decision-makers in the U.S. and globally reported that, in the last two years, more than a quarter of their organization’s outages were caused by changes to network infrastructure. That’s according to a recent survey of 500 global IT decision makers commissioned by Opengear, a Digi Intl. company.
The study, titled “Measuring the True Cost of Network Outages,” found that half (50%) of U.S. businesses and 44% globally were increasing the level of automation across the network to drive up network resilience within their organization and combat these outages.