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Infonetics: Close to 80% of Medium & Large Businesses Plan to Have SDN in Data Centers by 2017

Infonetics: Close to 80% of Medium & Large Businesses Plan to Have SDN in Data Centers by 2017 Image Credit: Infonetics

According to Infonetics Research, a technology market research firm, 79 percent of medium and large businesses in North America are planning to have software-defined networking (SDN) in live production in data centers by 2017.  The survey that was participated by 153 enterprises in these segment found that 65 percent of survey respondents are currently conducting data center SDN lab trials this year. 

The push for SDN in the data centers by medium and large enterprises are mainly driven by requirements for better security, improved application performance, and simplified management, without causing network interruptions. Popular data center SDN use cases include automation for disaster recovery, provisioning, application deployment, and enabling hybrid cloud. Data center orchestration software represents one of the biggest opportunities for third-party SDN vendors and existing virtualization vendors, said Infonetics. 
Cisco was named the most, followed by IBM, Juniper and VMware, by enterprises when asked whom they consider to be the top three SDN hardware or software vendors, a measure that reflects a vendor's overall brand strength. 

Cliff Grossner, Ph.D., Research Director for Data Center, Cloud & SDN, Infonetics Research
We asked enterprises from which vendors they plan to source data center SDN hardware and software for the physical network, network OS, controller, orchestration software, applications, and virtual network overlays. Many will turn to incumbent network vendors, of course, but a big 'a-ha' moment for us was seeing how many plan to look to non-incumbent network vendors, including third-party SDN vendors, open source vendors, existing virtualization vendors and others. As SDN in the enterprise data center grows legs in 2015, thought leadership in this nascent market will give way to market share leaders with measurable revenue. Now is the time for existing and new vendors to grab market share. Respondents are moving from lab trials in 2015 to production trials in 2016 and to live production in 2017.

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