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1 WHITE PAPER Redefining Networking with Network ization Why Networking Is Ripe for a Change

2 Table of Contents Overcoming the Obstacle Blocking the Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud... 3 What Is Network ization?...4 The Four Cs of Legacy Networking Complexity Configuration Costs Cyber Attacks...7 Three Trends Reshaping the Networking Industry Redirecting Intelligence from Hardware to Software The Rise of the Software-Defined Data Center The Rapid Adoption of Network ization...8 Conclusion...8 WHITE PAPER / 2

3 Overcoming the Obstacle Blocking the Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Patience may well be a virtue, but for enterprises eager to get applications in the hands of end users, there is no virtue in standing by while IT administrators manually provision, change, and manage their legacy network infrastructure. Business decision makers are increasingly pushing their IT organizations to deliver applications and services with speed and agility the type of on-demand provisioning made possible by hybrid cloud architectures. In fact, 82 percent of enterprises have mapped out a hybrid cloud strategy to try and satisfy their appetite for urgency and flexibility % of enterprises have mapped out a hybrid cloud strategy With hybrid clouds, the enterprise can utilize both private and public clouds to scale up and down quickly as needed for storage, availability, regulatory compliance, DevOps, and more. But in many data centers, there is an obstacle to implementing a hybrid cloud: a legacy, hardware-centric network architecture. Why the hold-up? With hardware-centric networking, there is no automatic linkage to compute or storage virtualization. As a result, there is no way to automatically provision and make ongoing changes to network services when the associated compute and storage are created, moved, snapshotted, deleted, or cloned. So, network provisioning and change management both remain slow. 1. RightScale, 2015 State of the Cloud Report, February WHITE PAPER / 3

4 What Is Network ization? Application Application Application Workload Workload Workload x86 Environment Software L2, L3, L4-7 Network Services Machine Machine Machine Network Network Network Server Hypervisor Requirement: x86 Decoupled Network Hypervisor Requirement: IP Transport Hardware General Purpose Server Hardware General Purpose Networking Hardware Much as server virtualization recreates the traits of a physical server within software, network virtualization likewise replicates the components of network and security services in a software container. Consequently, the virtualized network is provisioned and managed independent of your hardware, and the physical networking devices simply become a vehicle for forwarding packets. With network virtualization, your network administrators can create and provision virtual networks logical switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, and workload security in minutes rather than days or even weeks. What does this mean for IT organizations? Enterprises can use network virtualization to connect to the hybrid cloud without worrying about network hardware dependency, interoperability, or service provider lock-in. The resulting hybrid cloud provides much greater business agility, dramatically simpler operations, and lower cost. WHITE PAPER / 4

5 The Four Cs of Legacy Networking Hardware-centric networking poses a range of challenges for IT organizations. By exploring each of these four significant disadvantages, it s easier to recognize the need to transition to network virtualization. 1. Complexity According to a recent study by Dynamic Markets, 90 percent of companies surveyed acknowledge that they are limited by the complexities of their networks when it comes to deploying applications and services. 2 In fact, the study found that businesses spend 270 days per year on average waiting for IT to deliver a new or updated service. Other findings from the study include: In a 12-month period, IT makes an average of 10 changes to the corporate network that require a maintenance window. The average wait for maintenance windows is 27 days each. 82 percent of respondents experienced at least some network downtime due to change errors, and 80 percent lost revenue due to downtime. Larger enterprises require significantly more of these changes and wait even longer for maintenance windows. 3 Much of the complication reflected in this report can be traced back to hardware-centric networking, a closed black-box approach that requires custom operating systems, ASICs, CLIs, and management. It s an approach that ties the enterprise to existing hardware and network architecture, but diverts IT professionals from making strategic contributions in order to tackle a host of manual tasks. 2. Dynamic Markets, Network Agility Research 2014, February Dynamic Markets, Network Agility Research 2014, February WHITE PAPER / 5

6 2. Configuration For instance, the IT team needs to carry out a series of configuration steps whenever a line of business asks for a new application or service, or to move an existing application. Steps include establishing VLANs, mapping VLANs across switches and uplinks, creating port groups, updating service profiles, and more. The task is further complicated when configuration work is performed through CLIs. 33 % of network outages are caused by manual configuration mistakes The sluggish nature of these manual tasks is exacerbated by the likelihood of human error during configuration. Studies find that roughly one-third of network outages are caused by manual configuration mistakes. 4 $ 3. Costs Hardware-centric networking can also run up operational and capital costs in the data center. First, consider the impact on operational expenditures (OpEx). Think of the manual processes required for managing a physical network, and then apply those manual tasks to each of the environments in the enterprise that need IT support i.e., DevOps, departmental networks, application environments, primary and recovery sites. IT teams can spend hours, days, even weeks, to deploy networks. Next, weigh the cost of unnecessary capital expenditures (CapEx). Supporting legacy networks means spending on standalone solutions i.e., routing, firewalling, load balancing to maintain networking and security functions. Additionally, physical networks can force the enterprise to overprovision hardware in order to meet peak demands, and require periodic forklift upgrades to keep up with advancements in networking technology. 4. Dimension Data, 2015 Network Barometer Report, June WHITE PAPER / 6

7 4. Cyber Attacks Legacy three-tier network architectures, as well as perimeter-centric firewalls can also expose data centers to security risks. In cases where a cyber attack breaches a perimeter firewall, we ve learned that legacy networking systems are limited in their ability to stop attacks from spreading inside the data center. That s because it s proving too expensive to establish firewalls for traffic between workloads, or east-west traffic. Three Trends Reshaping the Networking Industry What are the factors causing IT organizations to rethink networking architecture? We see three forces at work that are fundamentally changing how we approach networking, and the move away from legacy systems. 1. Redirecting Intelligence from Hardware to Software By designing abstraction layers into their infrastructures, cloud service pacesetters such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google are achieving industry-altering speed, agility, security, and efficiency in their data centers. With this ability to decouple networking components and services from hardware and integrate them into software applications, these IT visionaries have discovered the benefits of software intelligence automation and freedom from reliance on a hardware-centric network architecture. This shift is significant in two ways and can apply to enterprises of all sizes. First, with network infrastructure in the software, there s greater agility in the data center. IT teams can quickly provision and move virtual machines in a manner that s more secure, reliable, and scalable than is possible with legacy systems. Second, network virtualization makes it easier to release applications in greater numbers and frequency, which enables the enterprise to capture more business opportunities. 5. Taneja Group, Transforming the Datacenter with VMware s Software Defined Data Center vcloud Suite, June WHITE PAPER / 7

8 2. The Rise of the Software-Defined Data Center Time to value has become a measuring stick for the success of IT operations. And the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), which allows IT organizations to deploy resources automatically without the need for manual intervention, provides a foundation for efficiency and the rapid delivery of applications and services. Software-Defined Savings 56 % REDUCTION In a recent study, the Taneja Group reported that Software-Defined Data Centers deliver a 56 percent reduction in annual operational costs for provisioning and management. Additionally, the study showed that the time required to provision a production network for a new application was slashed from three or four weeks to a matter of minutes. 5 With the SDDC, compute, storage, and networking are all virtualized and sorted into pools of resources. Consequently, the IT infrastructure is controlled by software, reducing the time it takes to deploy new applications from days or hours down to minutes. All of the benefits of automation agility, security, flexibility, and savings are at your fingertips. 3. The Rapid Adoption of Network ization As IT organizations race to keep up with the demands of their stakeholders, they are keen to achieve flexibility, scalability, and savings. And they are increasingly finding the answer lies in network virtualization. A new 2015 survey by SDx Central found that 88 percent of respondents said it was either important or mission critical to adapt a network virtualization solution within the next five years. 6 By making the move to network virtualization, organizations are realizing they can deploy resources fast, scale to meet changing demands, and support applications as they shift from their legacy hardware model to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach. Conclusion By turning to the hybrid cloud, enterprises can expedite the delivery of IT services while cutting back on OpEx and CapEx costs. But for IT organizations that remain tied to legacy network infrastructure, they face an obstacle inflexible hardware in their path to the hybrid cloud. As the new definition of networking, network virtualization provides a bridge to the hybrid cloud and all of the benefits i.e., agility, simplicity, flexibility that it provides. To find more information about the benefits of network virtualization, visit 5. Taneja Group, Transforming the Datacenter with VMware s Software-Defined Data Center vcloud Suite, June SDx Central, 2015 Special Report: Network ization in the Data Center, November WHITE PAPER / 8

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