<div><em>The IDC-Juniper Network survey shows SDN will drastically alter how network infrastructures are configured and managed, writes <strong>K Chandra Mohan</strong></em><br><br>A combined research study by International Data Corporation (IDC), a leading IT research and advisory firm and Juniper Networks, shows that a majority of large enterprises in India are planning to deploy Software Defined Networking technologies as part of their network architecture by 2016. </div><div> </div><div>In the last 12-18 months, Software Defined Networks (SDN) technology has been much touted as a data centre saviour – one that can transform the network, unlock critical intelligence, and help deliver the new services and powerful analytics needed to run on-demand applications for today’s businesses and consumers. IDC has even gone so far as to predict that the SDN market in Asia Pacific will surpass the $1 billion mark by 2018.</div><div> </div><div>The study found that 22 per cent of the respondents were “users,” defined as organizations that have deployed SDN in the pilot stage while the rest of the respondents were “intenders” who were planning to deploy SDN in the near future. Among the “intenders,” 40 per cent were planning to deploy SDN within the next year, while the other 60 per cent were aiming to deploy SDN after two years or more.</div><div> </div><div>Among the respondents, 59 per cent said they understood the concept of SDN or understood the technology completely. Forty-two per cent of intenders and 34 per cent of users do not have a specific budget assigned to the purchase of SDN solutions while 19 per cent of intenders and 28 per cent of users are willing to consider more than 7 per cent of their IT budget for SDN implementation. The advantage of adopting SDN is improved network performance and efficiency. </div><div> </div><div>SDN brings greater automation to an otherwise complicated world. Organisations that want to run an application within a public cloud environment would normally use a self-service portal to manually provision the required resources. This is not only time consuming, and therefore costly, it can also leave a business vulnerable to miss configurations due to human error.</div><div> </div><div>“This is the need of the hour to educate and create awareness in the industry on the benefits of SDN. Juniper has initiated an SDN programme that has created awareness amongst potential users. The networking architecture landscape in India is in a state of transition and the software-defined model can enable significant advantages, making it the logical solution every organization turns to for better efficiency and security.” Sajan Paul, Director, India & SAARC, Juniper Networks.<br> </div><div>“Organisations wanting to derive business value from their third platform investments need to now provide a digital nervous system to support the exponential data growth and increase in performance expectations as a next step. Innovations like SDN can enable the organisations with an unmatched capacity, flexibility and scale that can act as a worthy foundation to help achieve that business value”. Gaurav Sharma, Research Manager, IDC India.</div><div> </div><div>Lastly, SDN will drastically alter how network infrastructures are configured and managed. By separating the control function from the rest of the network, SDN enables IT teams to manage network environments in a way that gives them an aerial view of the business. What that means is, business no longer operate in a collection of silos.</div><div> </div>
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