by Gina Narcisi, CRN
NetBox Labs, the three-year-old commercial steward of open-source network and infrastructure management stack NetBox, is making NetBox Copilot generally available and has announced a strategic partnership with solution provider giant World Wide Technology (WWT).
NetBox And WWT
The newly forged partnership between NetBox and WWT will bring the company's platform for network and infrastructure management into WWT's global advanced IT services portfolio, according to NetBox.
Beevers said that NetBox is strategic to WWT and that its technology is spanning "multiple practices" within partner organizations like WWT.
Via the partnership, NetBox Labs' commercial platforms—NetBox Cloud and NetBox Enterprise—can be used within WWT-led architecture design and validation efforts to serve up a clear view of what's in a network, how the infrastructure changes over time and how operational reality differs from the intended state of the infrastructure, the companies said. NetBox's platform will also be integrated into the WWT Advanced Technology Center, an ecosystem of physical and virtual labs designed to help customers evaluate, design, build and deploy modern architectural solutions at scale. WWT customers will be able to purchase the NetBox Labs platform as the foundational layer for infrastructure modeling and automation via their WWT-led engagement.
In addition to WWT, NetBox is expanding its strategic partnership strategy with more solution provider leaders, including Ahead and Presidio, later this year, the company told CRN.