Ask most enterprise executives if they are interested in deploying SDN, and you’ll probably hear a solid “yes.” Ask them what they plan to do with it, however, and the response will become a bit less clear.
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Like most of the technology initiatives hitting the enterprise these days, the advent of consumer platforms supporting professional applications and processes is met with a mixture of anticipation and caution.
Everybody likes to work with the tools they are most comfortable with, of course, but since this is enterprise data we’re talking about, it has to be secure, reliable and functional.
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Arguing over which kind of cloud is “best” for the enterprise is like arguing over what kind of apple tastes better than the others. Some people like the crispy sweetness of the Red Delicious, others the floral spiciness of the Courtland or the classic apple-taste of the Macintosh. And then the criteria change completely if you plan to bake a pie, make applesauce or press some cider.
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No matter how adept the enterprise becomes at self-service provisioning and dynamic cloud operations, there will always be a push-pull relationship with users over digital autonomy. Users, of course, will keep pushing for more while the enterprise will keep pulling for less.
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Larger data loads are coming to the enterprise, both as a function of Big Data and the steady uptick of normal business activity. This will naturally wreak havoc with much of today’s traditional storage infrastructure, which is being tasked with not only with providing more capacity but speeding up and simplifying the storage and retrieval process.
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It seems that the enterprise is both intrigued and yet intimidated by the thought of incorporating high-performance computing (HPC) into the data center.
On the one hand, who doesn’t want a powerful, scalable and highly flexible data infrastructure at their disposal? On the other, the financial, technical and logistical challenges to making it work properly are undoubtedly daunting.
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The enterprise is heavily invested in legacy infrastructure but is also rapidly ramping up its cloud, both at home in the data center and on third-party resources. Quite naturally, this points to the hybrid cloud as the only logical way to leverage both of these investments to their full potential.
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Software Defined Networking (SDN) is the moniker that the enterprise has accepted for the new breed of virtual network architectures abstracted from underlying hardware. But since software involves code, what we are really talking about is programmable networking. That raises a number of questions regarding the ultimate goal of this investment: programmed how? And programmed to do what, exactly?
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It’s going to be a radically different enterprise network in a few short years, even if only half of the ideas currently being bandied about for the cloud, virtualized world of Big Data and the Internet of Things comes true.
One of the most radical concepts is app-centric networking. Though not exactly new, it’s gaining more clarity as the worlds of enterprise data, mobile computing and advanced virtualized infrastructure start to converge.
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Now that enterprise infrastructure is gravitating toward more modular, white-box configurations, attention has shifted up the stack to find ways to squeeze more performance from virtual and cloud-based data environments.
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