Published: 28 July 2016
Summary
Digital business is enabled and enhanced through high-speed, secure, low-latency communication among enterprise assets, cloud resources, and an ecosystem of service providers and peers. Architects and IT leaders must consider carrier-neutral data center interconnection as a digital business enabler.
Included in Full Research
- Introduction
- Digital Business Defined
- Inefficiencies of an On-Premises-Only Model for Digital Business
- Shortcomings of a Cloud-Only Model for Digital Business
- Data Center Interconnect Fabric Defined
- Peering in Ecosystems
- Peering Ecosystem Model With Programmable Networking (Data Center Interconnect Fabric)
- The Current and Future State of Data Center Interconnection Using Programmable Network Infrastructure
- Future Promise: Data Center OS and Container Orchestration Frameworks Will Provide Coordination, Scheduling and Management of Applications Deployed Across Myriad Distributed Physical Servers and Service Providers
- Applicability of the Data Center Interconnection Model to Digital Business Requirements
- Bottom Line