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Itential Recognized in Seven 2025 Gartner® Hype Cycle™ Reports for Leadership in Infrastructure Orchestration & Automation

Recognition across multiple Hype Cycles underscores Itential’s role as the orchestration platform enabling AI-ready, compliant, and scalable automation for the world’s largest enterprises.

ATLANTA, August 13, 2025 — Itential, the cloud-native leader in network and infrastructure orchestration, today announced it has been named as a Sample Vendor in seven separate 2025 Gartner Hype Cycleu2122 reports:

Hype Cycle for I&O Automation, 2025u00b9 (“Infrastructure Orchestration,” “NetDevOps,” “Network Automation”);
Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2025u00b2 (“NetDevOps”);
Hype Cycle for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies, 2025u00b3 (“Infrastructure Orchestration”);
Hype Cycle for Site Reliability Engineering, 2025u2074 (“Infrastructure Orchestration”);
Hype Cycle for IT Operations, 2025u2075 (“Infrastructure Orchestration,” “NetDevOps”);
Hype Cycle for Compute, 2025u2076 (“Infrastructure Orchestration”);
Hype Cycle for Human and Social Services in Government, 2025u2077 (“Infrastructure Orchestration”).

This recognition highlights orchestration’s critical role in operationalizing automation across complex enterprise environments.

The Challenge Facing I&O Leaders

According to the 2025 Gartneru00ae Hype Cycleu2122 for I&O Automation, “Automation accelerates delivery of business value and mitigates risk. Organizations must view automation as not just a core capability that unlocks their capacity to deliver highu2011velocity, highu2011efficiency and highu2011performance services to their stakeholders, but as a force multiplier that drives continuous improvement and innovation.” Despite significant investments, most automation remains fragmented and siloed in tools, teams, or domains. At the same time, hybrid topologies, DevOps practices, and AI adoption are creating an automationu2011first model that can only succeed when orchestration connects and governs automation at scale.

Itential’s inclusion in seven Gartner Hype Cycle reports this year highlights how quickly orchestration is moving from optional to essential for I&O leaders. In an era defined by hybrid complexity, AI acceleration, and continuous delivery, Itential delivers the orchestration layer that unifies fragmented automation into governed, reusable, and scalable capabilities – enabling I&O teams to deliver faster, reduce risk, and transform network and infrastructure into AI-ready, self service, application driven services.

Kristen Rachels, Chief Marketing Officer at Itential

The Path Forward: Orchestration as the Multiplier

Gartner positions orchestration as critical to realizing automation’s value: “Combining automation technologies to enable orchestrated delivery patterns continues to improve I&O automation’s value to consumers.” Itential’s recognition across the seven 2025 Hype Cycles reflects its role as the orchestration layer for enterprise automation. Itential’s recognition is built on:

Platform Breadth: Multiu2011domain, multi-vendor orchestration across network, cloud, and infrastructure to deliver consistent automation at enterprise scale.
Complianceu2011First Design: Continuous compliance automation embedded in orchestration workflows to ensure every change is governed and auditu2011ready.
Unified Automation Execution: Consolidation of scripts, tools, and pipelines into governed, reusable workflows to eliminate silos, tame complexity, and speed delivery.
AIu2011Ready Architecture: Integration of generative AI, agentic AI, and the Itential MCP Server to accelerate automation development and orchestrate AIu2011powered autonomous operations.

By moving beyond isolated scripts and toolu2011specific automations, Itential enables enterprises to unify automation as a strategic capability and position infrastructure for AIu2011ready, autonomous operations at scale. The Gartneru00ae Hype Cycleu2122 reports provide a graphical representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and practices, illustrating how they are relevant to solving pressing business challenges while unlocking new opportunities. This year’s Hype Cycles identify Infrastructure Orchestration, Network Automation, and NetDevOps as delivering a high level of benefit for I&O leaders tasked with increasing velocity, improving governance, and scaling automation across complex hybrid environments. Earlier this year, Itential was also named a Representative Vendor in both the Gartner Market Guide for Infrastructure Automation and Orchestration Tools and the Gartner Market Guide to Network Automation Platforms. To learn more about Itential visit www.itential.com.

About Itential

Itential provides powerful automation and orchestration capabilities that enable the world’s largest enterprises and service providers to deliver network and infrastructure services faster, more securely, and at scale. Built for hybrid, multi-domain environments, the Itential Platform simplifies and standardizes change across traditional and modern architectures — from data center to cloud to edge — with full support for configuration compliance, policy enforcement, and integration across the IT ecosystem. Itential provides a unified platform that enables both the execution of infrastructure automations and the orchestration of complex, end-to-end workflows — allowing organizations to standardize, scale, and govern operations across complex environments. With robust integration capabilities and support for event-driven triggers, Itential connects automation, systems, and AI-driven insights to orchestrated action, making it easier to evolve from task-level automation to fully coordinated operations. By enabling self-service infrastructure delivery for IT and application teams, and operationalizing automation at scale, Itential is transforming how organizations manage and evolve their distributed infrastructure. www.itential.com.

Media Contact:

Kristen H. Rachels Chief Marketing Officer at Itential kristen.rachels@itential.com

Sources: ¹Gartner “Hype Cycle for I&O Automation, 2025” by Chris Saunderson, Cameron Haight, June 27, 2025. ²Gartner “Hype Cycle for Enterprise Networking, 2025” by Mike Leibovitz, Andrew Lerner, Jonathan Forest, Karen Brown, June 30, 2025. ³Gartner “Hype Cycle for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies, 2025” by Henrique Cecci, June 30, 2025. ⁴Gartner “Hype Cycle for Site Reliability Engineering, 2025” by Hassan Ennaciri, Chris Saunderson, Daniel Betts, Uzair Amin, June 16, 2025. ⁵Gartner “Hype Cycle for IT Operations, 2025” by Paul Wang, Mark Margevicius, Leo Li, July 28, 2025. ⁶Gartner “Hype Cycle for Compute, 2025” by Tony Harvey, July 1, 2025. ⁷Gartner “Hype Cycle for Human and Social Services in Government, 2025” by Roland Rivera, July 30, 2025.

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