What about the network?

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/networkhub/does-a-priority-in-data-center-overhauling-mean-many-changes-to-the-network/

This week I read survey results showing IT priorities in 2008, and was surprised to see how much the top IT priorities involved the network. So I did a little research.

The following article focuses on the network worker’s priorities alone: Disaster recovery, convergence and security top 2008 networking to-do lists. Putting these articles side-by-side made me see that very few priorities differed. The top priority for both networking and IT managers, for example, was disaster recovery. What was even more interesting was that even though the networking survey included questions on typical networking topics (i.e., routing, security, wireless, etc.) disaster recovery and data center topics came up very high in the results.

According to the IT manager questionnaire, almost half of IT managers surveyed plan to renovate and/or build a new data center (shown in the figure below):

Check out this article talking about how changing the data center or the IT infrastructure might mean changes to the network. As we look at projects like consolidation or virtualization, and indeed as the actual assets, the server, the network port becomes more of a commodity in the big picture of service delivery, being able to scale the network out to meet the business need, to report on what’s using which components and be more proactive to the business need means the way we provide the network might have to change. Should we be looking at separating the functions between network lan?

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