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Today majority of the mainstream global enterprises are getting inclined towards SDN technologies which enables network automation and simplifies data transmission practices, says Ravi Namboori, Director of Architecture at Equinix.
Majority of the US businesses are moving to SDN technologies in the recent years and by 2017 it is expected that more than 80% of the medium and large companies would adopt SDN approach for their network architecture.
Recent studies on evolving SDN products states that the reliability and performance of the networks are significantly increased with SDN approach and these products are sufficiently fulfilling the needs of mainstream enterprises, says Ravi Namboori a data center expert.
SDN brings network automation that enables organizations to leverage best from their hardware infrastructure and software applications.
The transition of SDN adoption is rapidly progressing and gaining prominence among communication service firms, cloud providers, web companies and mainstream enterprises, says Andrew Lerner, a Research Director at Gartner Inc.
SDN is gaining rapid momentum in the enterprise and the trend continues, resulting in huge number of SDN adoptions in next five years, says Lee Doyle principal analyst at Doyle Research.
Today SDN is a proven technology in global market places and soon it will be a widely implemented technology and becomes part of organizational norms, says Ravi Namboori.
Global companies leverage best from the SDN technologies and reduce their capital and operational expenditures. By automating servers, switches and application services, companies can reduce the operational expenses considerably.
Industry experts says that SDN will boost the employee productivity significantly by automating the application development, network traffic flow optimization and by using virtual machines. Enterprises should opt for SDN with centralized controllers to address network visibility issues as controllers continuously monitor the traffic flow.
Recent surveys on SDN evolution rated Cisco as the top SDN software and hardware vendor, though there were other players such as IBM, Juniper Networks and VMware on the list, very few companies opted.
When planning to implement SDN technology, enterprises are looking for open source vendors or third party SDN vendors as it is necessary that new SDN products gets integrated and collaborated easily in to their existing network architecture.
Multi-vendor environments are part of recent technological trends and global enterprises gets inclined towards the products or application fit best in to their datacenter with least changes in existing network architecture, Ravi Namboori adds.
