NetBox Labs Adds Dozens of Enterprise Customers, Including Seven Fortune 500 Organizations, and Celebrates Massive NetBox Innovation and Community Growth In First Year
30 Abril 2024 - 8:17AM
NetBox Labs, the commercial steward of the leading network source
of truth, NetBox, today announced impressive customer momentum-
including more than 60 customers and seven Fortune 500 companies -
and significant product innovation in its first year as a company.
Since NetBox Labs spun out of NS1 and raised its Series A
in April 2023, the company has grown the NetBox community rapidly,
with more than 6K NetBox practitioners engaging in Slack and more
than 15K GitHub stars. NetBox Labs has also announced several
programs supporting NetBox innovation directly, while bringing to
market numerous product enhancements connecting networking teams
with the greater IT ecosystem. Recently launched product features
include an array of partnerships and integrations for network
discovery, ITSM and CMDB, and network assurance, along with
supported and certified NetBox plugins, tools for event-driven
network automation, and more.
“We launched NetBox Labs with the goal of continuing to grow the
incredible community behind NetBox and helping ensure every
networking team has access to its powerful data model to build and
manage complex networks, and the response has been overwhelming,”
says Kris Beevers, co-founder and CEO of NetBox Labs. “As a
company, we are laser focused on bringing innovative features to
market for NetBox users, while sharing our expertise on best
practices on network management and automation and deepening the
ecosystem around NetBox. We’ve grown our technical team rapidly and
with our fast revenue growth and the support of our world-class
open source investors, we will continue to invest in the NetBox
community to make NetBox the de facto choice for IT teams across
the world.”
The corporate and product momentum news comes ahead of the
general availability of NetBox version 4.0, which includes
improvements for users and administrators across the front end, new
workflows, expansions to NetBox’s data model, and benefits for
plugin management and the developer experience. NetBox 4.0 is
available in beta 2 now and will be widely available in early May.
New capabilities and enhancements include:
- NetBox data model evolution - NetBox’s
comprehensive and cohesive network data model empowers automation
and helps teams eliminates network issues. NetBox users can now
reflect the reality of their organization more accurately than
ever, with new granular modeling options for NetBox sites,
facilities, and locations.
- Your vital NetBox info front and center -
Network operations teams benefit from smarter workflows that make
critical information quicker to find and more readable, saving time
and effort.
- Modern, elevated NetBox UI - NetBox 4.0
delivers a consistent user experience that helps your team be their
most effective regardless of which screens they’re using.
- API and developer experience improvements -
Network automation teams can get more done with less code in NetBox
4.0.
- Simplified plugin management and assurance -
We’ve integrated the NetBox Labs plugin catalog, saving your staff
time and helping them keep certified plugins up to date.
With tens of thousands of installations, NetBox is widely
deployed in enterprise footprints and is trusted by IT, networking,
and datacenter teams in industries such as financial services,
retail and hospitality, industrial, manufacturing, energy, and
government. Combining the capabilities of DCIM and IPAM into a
comprehensive network source of truth, NetBox has become critical
infrastructure and is the linchpin of modern network management and
automation architectures.
In addition to customer momentum, the company has grown its
partner ecosystem to include leading technical partners, consulting
organizations and NetBox subject matter experts, including Blue
Ally, Evolvere, Forward Networks, Full Ctl, IP Fabric, Itential,
Nomios, Opticore, Slurp’it, WWT and more. At the same time, the
company introduced integrations with ServiceNow for its IT Service
Management (ITSM) and Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
products, NetBox Event Streams for real-time network automation,
and security integrations with Splunk and ElasticSearch. In
addition to its NetBox Cloud offering, which it launched with in
April 2023, the company recently announced a self-managed NetBox
offering, NetBox Enterprise. The company also announced completion
of its SOC 2 Type II certification in April.
“BlueAlly clients rely on us to help design and cultivate a
successful network infrastructure that balances flexibility and
functionality, reliable connectivity, security, and cost.
NetBoxLabs’ commitment to NetBox innovation and the company’s big
tent philosophy are right in line with supporting those needs,”
says Dan Wade, Network and Infrastructure Practice Lead at
BlueAlly, a NetBox Labs partner. “By leveraging NetBox - via
open-source means, NetBox Cloud, or self-managed with NetBox
Enterprise - our clients know they are using the premier network
source of truth that is the backbone of their network management
and network automation strategy.”
Recognizing the need for the network automation community to
come together, NetBox Labs launched and hosted two NetDevOps Days
events in London and New York this past year, drawing hundreds of
attendees and the attention of the industry. In December 2023,
NetBox Labs merged NetDevOps Days with the Network Automation
Forum’s AutoCon, creating the go-to event for network automation
practitioners and executives.
NetBox Labs is expanding quickly,hiring for openings in its
sales organization globally to meet market demand and always
expanding its product and technology investment. Existing NetBox
users or anyone curious about NetBox can meet with the company at
AutoCon 1 in Amsterdam in May or at Cisco Live US in Las Vegas in
June, and NetBox Labs is always offering educational programming
focused on network management and network automation at
netboxlabs.com/events.
About NetBox Labs
NetBox Labs makes it easier to build and manage
complex networks. We help teams accelerate network automation by
delivering open, composable products and supporting the network
automation community.
NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open
source NetBox, the world’s most popular network source of truth,
and Orb, the next-generation open source network observability
platform. Our products include NetBox Enterprise, a fully supported
self-managed NetBox with advanced features, and NetBox Cloud, a
secure, scalable, and reliable SaaS edition of NetBox.
NetBox powers thousands of companies, and NetBox
Labs is backed by investment from GGV Capital, Grafana Labs CEO Raj
Dutt, Flybridge, IBM, Salesforce Ventures, and Mango Capital.
Contact info: Kiley Nichols, head of marketing,
marketing@netboxlabs.com