10 Technologies That Will Shape the Future of Enterprise IT
2. Software-Defined Networks:
The Data center networks have grown drastically in the recent past. The servers and storage have benefited themselves from software abstraction, the networks still continue to be hardware-bound and static, and this has been the major hurdle in implementing cloud computing. This brings the role of SDN (software-defined networking) into act, which covers one software layer over switch and router hardware to serve as both a centrally managed control plane and a platform for innovation. SDN is not a network virtualization rather it is a way to program the networks that is; it allows the cloud source and ISVs to build new networking abilities on which the rest of the users can draw on. The leading example of SDN today is OpenFlow which is the idea of university researchers who wanted to experiment with new network protocols on large production networks. These software defined networks can bring a drastic change and have the capability to become an integral part of enterprises over a long period of time.
