Re: 2023 State of Network Automation Survey

[Lou D <telescope40 () gmail com>]

Chris ,

Competed the survey , I think I understand why some might feel issues with
the financial questions but it’s a fair point to understand on how there
can be avenues to maximize savings for one services if you can get
automation rolled in with it . All the best with the survey

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 2:37 AM Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann () gmail com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 2:30 PM Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:
>
> > Having the opt out is nice, but if I am being completely honest, it gives
> > me pause as to what the intent of this survey is in the first place.
> >
> > I perhaps may be hyper cynical, but those feel like a straight line
> > towards the standard salesperson line of "look at what you are spending now
> > on FOO , you could save X if you used BAR".
>
> Fair play, Tom. All I can say is that after 20 years of working on, in,
> and around the Internet, I'm sure as hell not going to ruin my reputation
> now.
>
> The intent of the survey is exactly as I stated: To report network
> automation trends back to the community.
>
> And whether we engineers like it or not, one of the best ways to measure
> trends is in the relative amount of money organizations spend on them...
>
> HTH,
> ~Chris
>
>
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 4:12 PM Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann () gmail com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 12:15 PM Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was also off put by some of the financial questions in there.
> > >
> > > The financial questions (2 of them) both allow opt-out if that is a
> > > sticking point. They are also both as vague as possible (large ranges, not
> > > exact figures) while still providing something to baseline against.