Move fast, break nothing: How Forward Predict brings CI/CD discipline to networking
Startup Forward Inc. today rolled out Forward Predict, software that lets customers model the impact of network changes before changes go live. Rather than a routine feature update in a crowded artificial intelligence networking market, the move signals a broader shift in how networks should be designed, operated and trusted as AI becomes central to enterprise information technology.
The network is now mission-critical
For decades, networks have quietly served as the connective tissue of enterprise IT. They were critical yet often treated as plumbing. Networks were expected to work, not to drive strategic advantage.
That era is over. Networks are now the platform on which modern digital business runs. Every application, every cloud service and every AI workload ultimately depends on the network. As AI moves from experimentation to production, the network is no longer just a transport layer. Rather, it’s a determinative factor in whether AI initiatives succeed or fail.
