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SDN Trends
Trend Implications / Challenges Citrix Insights / Provocations
• As applications are • INSIGHT: A 2015 SDN Customer Survey from Jim Metzler reported that 33% of
organizations surveyed said that they currently analyzing the value that SDN
virtualized the network offers….and 29% of them said that they are currently analyzing vendors’ SDN
infrastructure is being offerings.
• PROVOCATION: Where are you in your assessment of moving to a software-defined
virtualized as well. network to support the growth and needs of your business?
• SDN is a top datacenter • INSIGHT: In the 2015 State of the Network Study, Network World reported that the
initiative for enterprise top 3 benefits customers have received from SDN were increased network flexibility,
increased ability to customize the network, and faster network service configuration.
organizations • PROVOCATION: How important are these 3 attributes for your business? How is your
Software Defined current environment delivering on these attributes? Can you do this with your
Networking • SDN is changing the focus existing vendors?
of the sale from hardware
• INSIGHT: Application teams are automated and can deploy quickly however compute
to software. and network infrastructure deployment lags behind.
• PROVOCATION: How much does it cost your business to have delays in availability of
• Organizations want to infrastructure to run your applications?
deploy virtualized ADC
• INSIGHT: Decentralized applications are more difficult to monitor and manage and
services automatically. ensure high availability.
• PROVOCATION: Have you thought about how you would distribute application
delivery controllers through out this new scale out architecture?
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