Strategic Planning Assumptions
By the tip of 2022, the variety of enterprise community groups utilizing a SaaS-based console to handle knowledge heart networks will enhance by greater than 10 instances to greater than 1,500.
By 2023, greater than 10% of huge enterprises might be operating on-premises public cloud infrastructure (reminiscent of AWS Outposts) of their non-public knowledge facilities, which is a rise from lower than 1% in 2019.
Prospects who use administration consoles from their knowledge heart networking distributors to handle networking configurations inside public cloud community infrastructures will stay lower than 1% via 2023.
By 2023, 10% of enterprises will totally combine knowledge heart networking actions into CI/CD pipelines, up almost zero in early 2020.
By 2025, 20% of information heart {hardware} switches might be procured through an as-a-service mannequin (i.e., {hardware} as a service), up from almost zero in early 2020.
Market Definition/Description
This analysis evaluates knowledge heart and cloud networking {hardware} and software program for enterprises that procure and handle their very own knowledge heart networking infrastructures for set up on-premises or in colocation services. We additionally consider the flexibility to increase knowledge heart networking performance onto public cloud suppliers’ infrastructures to raised handle hybrid cloud networks. That mentioned, we’re not evaluating the interior bodily networking infrastructures in public cloud suppliers’ networks.
Distributors lined on this analysis present software program and/or {hardware} to ship community connectivity, primarily inside enterprise knowledge facilities. Cloud and/or cloud-inspired applied sciences at the moment are closely used inside these enterprise knowledge facilities, together with virtualization and automation. Thus, for 2020, we renamed the title of this analysis from “Magic Quadrant for Knowledge Middle Networking” to “Magic Quadrant for Knowledge Middle and Cloud Networking,” to match enterprise expectations.
Particular elements that make up vendor options embrace bodily switches, digital switches, community working methods, Ethernet materials, and community overlays, and the requisite administration, programmability, automation, and orchestration of those elements. Moreover, distributors on this market have not too long ago begun to increase their community coverage, community visibility and community administration capabilities to help workloads positioned in public clouds.
Traditionally, the information heart community was only a quick, scalable LAN that linked all knowledge heart gear, primarily servers. Though high-speed Ethernet ports (10/25/50/100GbE) are nonetheless vital, the market extends far past simply the {hardware} “speeds and feeds” affiliated with switches and change ports. Particularly, as many enterprises are constructing non-public clouds and/or cloud-inspired knowledge facilities, they want improved programmability, automation, orchestration and integration with the remainder of the information heart infrastructure.
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