One of the earliest promises of SDN was that abstraction of network services would enable a grand, unified connectivity paradigm, doing away with the messy business of integrating disparate platforms, topologies and vendor solutions.
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Network orchestration is emerging as a key element of software-defined architectures, and while nobody ever said it was going to be easy, it is proving to be even more complicated than many had hoped.
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Mobile communications and the Internet of Things are spurring the need for wireless backhaul. What does the enterprise need to know?
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The speed at which the enterprise has embraced IoT infrastructure has been impressive. But with most deployments still in a nascent stage, many organizations are only just now starting to encounter some of the challenges associated with scaling up to production levels.
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The cloud is getting bigger, the data center is getting smaller, and it would seem these two trends are destined for one conclusion: migration of virtually all enterprise workloads to third-party infrastructure.
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Since my AC is on the fritz today and it’s going to be 100 degrees-plus in the Washington, DC, metro area, I thought now would be a good time to take a look at what’s been happening in data center cooling lately.
It turns out, quite a bit.
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The initial phase of the cloud transition is nearly done, with more than three-quarters of enterprises pushing at least a portion of their workload to public infrastructure. As expected, however, most of this is non-critical data and applications and is largely limited to storage and backup services rather than production workloads.
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It is pretty evident at this point that modern data architectures are going to rely heavily on solid state storage for the bulk of their operations. But hard drives will still draw many specialty applications in which raw capacity and low price points are highly valued.
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The software defined network (SDN) is rolling out faster in the enterprise than many people anticipated, which is putting organizations on the fast track to not only streamlining network infrastructure but managing connectivity on a service basis.
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The average enterprise may only have waded ankle-deep into the SDN waters to date, but already the diversity of options is making it difficult to determine the optimal solution for any given data environment. Indeed, despite the underlying technology’s high degree of flexibility, organizations may wind up with multiple SDN frameworks that cater to the needs of individual workloads.
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