The enterprise is rapidly pursuing two key changes to data infrastructure in the drive to remain competitive in an increasingly digital economy. On the one hand, it is converting legacy network architectures into software-defined ones so as to build fully virtual data environments. On the other, it is undoing years of distributed physical infrastructure in favor of converged, modular footprints.
Both solutions require a great deal of planning, coordination and foresight if they are to fulfill their promise of a new, more efficient and more cloud-like data environment. They work at cross purposes in one crucial aspect: the more converged you become, the less complicated the networking gets, at least on the physical layer. Data in converged architectures moves across the interface fabric, not a complex network environment populated with switches, routers and controllers. So the question most enterprise executives should be asking themselves is, how much of a shelf-life will today’s #SDN, NFV and virtual overlay technologies provide if everything will be modular in a few short years?
One solution, of course, is to tweak today’s virtual networking solutions for converged and hyperconverged platforms. And in just the past few months, we’ve seen a number of initiatives taking on this challenge from different angles.
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