As organizations of all sizes seek to transform themselves into digital businesses, the need for an agile IT infrastructure becomes ever more acute. Network virtualization (NV) can increase IT agility, according to emerging case studies and user feedback.
Here’s an example of one of the challenges in IT agility: A virtual machine (VM) can be provisioned in a matter of minutes. But the networking resources required to support that VM still often require weeks to provision. At a time when many IT organizations are trying to maintain control over application workloads that are being moved into public clouds (which are simpler to provision), lack of network flexibility has become a pressing issue for IT leaders.
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