Cloud Computing: SDN Will Move Mainstream – Juniper Networks
February 10, 2014
Grazed from CRN. Author: Ashish Dhawan.
2013 saw the elevation of cloud computing as fundamental to business strategy. IT leaders now need to rethink the role of the network to deliver on the promise of the cloud. As enterprises begin to realize the benefits of the cloud, and as deployment and orchestration systems such as OpenStack and CloudStack mature, managing data centers will be about managing cloud workflows.
Both enterprises and service providers are looking to the cloud to help them move their businesses forward. For enterprises the cloud makes workloads and applications more dynamic, but before they can take advantage of this benefit they need an infrastructure which is optimized for private and public cloud services. Service providers, be they the traditional network service providers or cloud service providers, need a quick way to deliver new services and improve the time-to-revenue…
SDN paving the way
A recent technology trend to evaluate is software defined networking (SDN). With a lot of hype surrounding SDN, CIOs are wondering if betting big on SDN will impact their operations and the bottom-line. Organizations are looking to the cloud to increase business agility and innovation. But they will need the right solution to control their cloud networks. SDN is designed to merge the network into the age of the cloud…
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