Cloud-native automation vendors: case studies and analysis

The cloud-native automation (CNA) market consists of network function vendors, containers-as-a-service (CaaS)/infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) vendors, OSS/orchestration vendors and public cloud providers (PCPs). This report analyses and compares the CNA offerings of ten automation vendors. It also provides recommendations for each category of CNA vendor.

Key questions answered in this report

• Who are the key players in the CNA market?
• What are the main components of CNA solutions?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of the various CNA vendors?
• What are the key differentiators of each CNA vendor?
• Which vendors offer the most-complete CNA solutions?

Vendors included as case studies

• Aarna Networks
• AWS
• Ericsson
• Google Cloud
• Microsoft Azure
• Netcracker
• Nokia
• Red Hat
• SUSE
• VMware