Cloud Computing: Software-Defined Networking’s 3 Biggest Benefits

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Bill Kleyman.

SDN may sound abstract, but the technology is on target to provide concrete advantages to network infrastructure — from increased global connectivity to better content delivery. The concept of the software-defined network (SDN) initially caused some confusion in IT, but the picture gets clearer the more we learn. Similar to network virtualization, SDN allows for the direct network-related abstraction of services.

This abstraction of services can be accomplished on both logical as well as physical infrastructures, but is not actually defined by specific physical devices or logical components. How will SDN affect the future of network infrastructure? Let’s take a look at the biggest benefits…

1. Complete cloud abstraction

The cloud model of computing is here to stay. But, like all technologies, the cloud is evolving. Driven by both the enterprise and the end-user, cloud computing is becoming a more unified infrastructure. Users are able to access content that spans numerous environments via hybrid platforms that extend the datacenter infrastructure out to them. At the core of this design are the networking components that interconnect and support these massive datacenter platforms. Future networking services will unify cloud processes even more, making hybrid cloud creation much easier…

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