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SDN: Let’s Cut The Hype, What is the Reality?

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Thursday, November 01, 2012 11:00 AM EDT / 8:00 AM PDT

Software Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow have both received enormous attention and unfortunately are surrounded by much confusion. To understand SDN, we must take a step back and ask the question, what is SDN trying to achieve and how can the current SDN deployments in very large web-scale data centers translate into a tangible benefit for enterprise scale data centers. Taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture, SDN offers a solution to an important problem we now face in the data center: The network and the applications are operating in silos. Any automated attempt by the network or the application controllers, such as the hypervisor, to improve resource use can only achieve a suboptimal result. What is needed is a complete end-to-end coordinated virtual architecture enabling applications and the network to collaborate in providing a high quality experience for users and ! enable optimization of resource consumption. For any solution to be successful within the enterprise data center it must address the network size as well as the existing desirable network properties that should be maintained. Benefiting from the positive aspects of an SDN network requires a clear strategy for both the application and network infrastructure.

What will attendees learn?

SDN: What is it, and what does it mean for the enterprise scale data center
Criteria to evaluate when defining a strategy covering SDN principles for enterprise data center
Best practice recommendations to benefit from SDN

Who should attend?

IT applications managers responsible for setting application virtualization strategy
IT network managers responsible for setting data center network strategy
CIOs looking to understand risk, benefits and a practical approach to SDN for the enterprise

Presenters

Zeus Kerravala
Affiliate
Yankee Group

Cliff Grossner, Ph.D.
Director Strategic Marketing, Network Business
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

Moderator

Peter Bernstein
Senior Editor
TMCnet

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