Software defined networking is more than just a nifty new way to move bits from place to place. It represents a fundamental reimagining of the entire data stack, from hardware to middleware to applications and finally the data itself. As such, it will not be business as usual for network engineers once everything is lifted onto an abstract layer.
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At the beginning of 2016, it’s hard not to think what will happen in the year ahead for enterprise networking. With SDN ready to make a firm run at the data center, we’re not talking about more bandwidth or faster connectivity anymore, but a fundamental reshaping of our networking capabilities that will have far-reaching implications up and down the stack.
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Many enterprises are pondering the implications of the all-cloud data center when, in fact, a more immediate change is in the works. This would be the so-called “cloud-first” strategy, which seems to be playing out on the application layer rather than in end-to-end infrastructure deliberations.
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At this point, it doesn’t make much sense to talk about whether IT infrastructure will change in the cloud, or even how it will change, but how data and business processes will change to suit the new reality.
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The closer the enterprise gets to implementing Big Data analytics, the more daunting it appears. Even organizations that are well-versed in data warehousing realize that building infrastructure for the so-called “data lake” is a completely different ballgame.
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As the enterprise becomes more steeped in the cloud, greater attention is being paid to the real costs of moving workloads onto third-party infrastructure.
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Of the three pillars of enterprise hardware – compute, storage and networking – the future of storage is the least clear. Servers are being virtualized and containerized, networking is being defined by software, but storage is still swirling amid a plethora of media types and architectures.
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The data center is becoming more efficient by the day. But data loads are also increasing at an exponential rate, which leads many to believe that the two trends will cancel each other out: more data, but processed more efficiently, leading to a net neutral effect on things like energy consumption.
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Few cell phone users have access to unlimited data and bandwidth anymore, but is it time for the enterprise to start exerting more control over its workers’ consumption as well?
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Data volumes have been on a dramatic upswing since the decade began and are about to rise even faster now that Big Data and the Internet of Things are ramping up. So it would seem that enterprises of all sizes should be scrambling to boost their storage capacity, and yet the market is largely flat.
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