Today SDN (Software Defined Networking) is the hot topic among IT professionals.
If you attend any type of IT conference or exhibition there will be sessions and conversations centered on SDN. Using SDN, IT professionals can focus on business strategy and innovation rather than day-to-day maintenance of the network. If you are not ready to adopt SDN right now, you should be evaluating SDN and how other solutions you adopt today can scale to meet your SDN requirements in the future.
SDN is key to the IT infrastructure of the future. The driving force behind SDN in the data center is the fact that large data center networks cannot easily support the dynamic requirements of server virtualization. Using Software Defined Networking, your underlying infrastructure is aligned with your business applications.
IT gains more control over network infrastructure making it more flexible and agile with the shift from hardware to software. SDN enables a fully automated software-defined datacenter and is a key component in increasing operational efficiency and lowering operation expenses. You are better able to align network and business requirements in an SDN environment.
How will you benefit from SDN? A complaint we hear often is that applications take too long to deploy. In many instances network bottlenecks are to blame; SDN fixes these bottlenecks by centralizing network policy and control. Additionally, SDN technologies embrace open standards and provide organizations greater choices with their OpenFlow protocol. OpenFlow increases the efficiency in which IT can create applications.
Hybrid cloud deployments give you flexibility on where your infrastructure resources reside. A challenge we face today is the mobility of workloads between divergent networks. SDN technology enables the creation and management of virtual overlays that enable workload mobility and enforce user level policies as your workloads span physical and virtual networks. Resources are provisioned around the cloud immediately. SDN connects the pieces that you have previously virtualized.
How can AdvizeX help you on your path to SDN? The AdvizeX team uses our trusted Cloud Advizer™ to provide a comprehensive approach that includes customized planning, design, and implementation of your Software Defined Network. Our Cloud Advizer™ tool is a unique, vendor and product agnostic assessment tool that accurately benchmarks the current state of your technology infrastructure and identifies critical gaps.
Based on this data we can create an SDN strategy, architecture, and roadmap that lets you know where you stand today, where you need to be tomorrow, and the correct investments to make to get you where you want to be. With more than 400 man-years of experience, no other tool is as accurate in benchmarking technology infrastructures.
AdvizeX understands that the significant transformations in IT occurring in recent years can be overwhelming. Here at AdvizeX, we pride ourselves on the fact that we are market leaders in datacenter virtualization technologies, private cloud, line of business integration, and strategic consulting. Our professionals are up to speed with the latest technologies and solutions, including SDN. We have deep relationships with the best of breed OEMs in the SDN marketplace, including HP, VMWare, and Cisco.
With our many years of experience we will make your road to SDN an easy one. ▪