What Drives Network Upgrades?

Today's network managers are challenged by a myriad of evolving network requirements. Network teams have always had the burden of balancing new technical architectures with the ongoing responsibility of maintaining the current infrastructure, but according to Forrester Research, today's network operations professionals are facing an unparalleled rate of change that is straining the corporate network.

"Infrastructure and operations teams worry about security upgrades, application rollouts and new virtualization architectures that are stressing networks beyond their capacity. Network managers that once toiled over the business case for 10-Gigabit Ethernet now find the technology deployed throughout their data centers. However, as they begin to increase network usage, their gating factor is not bandwidth-it's latency."