What Machine Learning Can and Can't Do for Enterprise Networks

The enterprise is taking a hard look at machine learning (ML) as a means to bring network infrastructure into the 21st century, and many leading organizations have already implemented the technology in production environments. But is ML the panacea vendors make it out to be? And can it produce the kind of autonomous, intent-based environments that currently populate the hype cycle? The good news about machine learning is that it does not necessarily require a huge upfront investment. Leading cloud providers are rolling out ML-as-a-Service (MLaaS) options.