Time to Say Goodbye

Research Indicates That Businesses Need Agile Networks to Meet Evolving User Demands - Seite 2

"The findings clearly show that, despite apparent investment in the past few years, most organizations are still ill-equipped for current business demands and need to say "goodbye" to their legacy environments. The Brocade vision for the network -- a fabric-based network -- enables our customers to simplify and automate their networks, as well as dramatically improve network efficiency, utilization and performance. It also represents another logical step on the path toward mass customer adoption of SDN, which is what respondents say they need," added Nolet.

Other key findings from the research included:

• 75 percent of respondents would welcome the use of an "on-demand" data center model (a purpose-built network infrastructure for highly virtualized and cloud computing environments)
• Complexity (20 percent), cost (19 percent) and performance (14 percent) are the biggest data center challenges facing senior ITDMs
• 17 percent of enterprises have no plans to evaluate SDN, and 16 percent feel the same towards fabric-based architectures
• On average, 49 percent of servers are currently virtualized with this rising to an average of 64 percent in two years
• It currently takes an average of four days to provision a new device or application, and five days to provision a new service
• 35 percent of departments have looked to deploy cloud-based services in order to enhance their IT experience, but have done so without engaging the company's IT organization

Brocade leads the way in SDN technologies to help unleash the power, intelligence and analytics of networks with a flexible, end-to-end cloud-based solution. To pave the way for SDN, Brocade VCS Fabric technology helps organizations create efficient data center networks that just work. Ethernet fabrics built on Brocade VCS Fabric technology provide unmatched automation, efficiency and VM awareness compared to traditional network architectures and competitive fabric offerings. In addition, they increase flexibility and IT agility, enabling organizations to transition smoothly to elastic, mission-critical networks in highly virtualized cloud data centers.