Building Crush-Proof Networks

Description: Traditional networking practices are under increasing pressure. Beyond demands for capacity combined with legacy complexities, networking teams are now being pushed to manage the needs of an expanding range of applications and data that are running in the branch or the cloud, and outside of the datacenter as well. The old ways of determining where and how to invest in networking technology are being unraveled by the way that today’s applications are created, deployed and used. CIOs, networking managers and architects have to prepare themselves for a world where the only dependable prediction is that there will be change that will require rapid response in order to remain competitive.