The customer demand for open networking continues to grow as customers tire of being tied into proprietary networking stacks that don’t match the dynamic needs of their current environments. Dell’s fully open networking portfolio is helping drive this momentum.
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With all of the focus on software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs) the market is primed for change. Will companies break out as leaders or will the entrenched leaders go on a spending spree to buy into this hot market?
True to form, every year needs to have a set of predictions about what will happen, followed by either a glowing review of personal insight or a host of reasons why things did not pan out as anticipated.
The Fall 2015 meeting of the Open Networking User Group (ONUG) gave customers a chance to hone their use cases and deliver the candid, critical feedback to vendors who are working on open networking products.
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While many point to the progress with open networking, the future, while bright, is not without its challenges. Adoption of open networking is see as positive by all except the entrenched hardware vendors but this does not mean that all of the obstacles are cleared.
Open source is a driving factor in enterprise technology, and it is fueling the move to open networking and SDN. As businesses are “betting the business” on open source in cloud and enterprise platforms, networking, the last bastion of proprietary stacks, is ready to be toppled.
Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) is changing the technology landscape, but more importantly, SD-WAN is having a real impact on the business side of the equation. SD-WAN vendor Silver Peak is recognized for the WAN expertise and driving the clear business benefits with SD-WAN.
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There is plenty afoot in the datacenter that is impacting networks, but the drive for new network technologies will not come from hardware or even networking software. True change will be driven by the applications that need a different network to support massive data needs.
Network function virtualization (NFV) is a key technology that is being championed primarily by carriers and cloud service providers. But there are functional reasons why NFV can have a large impact on every business.
For years, wide area networks (WANs) were based on multi protocol label switching (MPLS) technology, but MPLS is very expensive and less flexible. A new generation of software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) products are adding broadband to create hybrid WANs. Silver Peak is one of the leaders in this space.
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