While the use of public cloud services continues to accelerate across all industries, all company sizes, and all regions of the world, the on-premises datacenter is still viewed as a core resource and competitive differentiator in the digital business environment. Recent IDC survey-based research into advances in GenAI workloads indicates that most organizations prefer a hybrid approach — using a mix of public cloud and private data center resources to foster data, train models, and fuel inferencing. For larger companies, this GenAI buildout often encompasses multiple data centers and multiple clouds.

All this planned activity around complex hybrid environments raises the bar for data center networks. Traffic, bandwidth, connections, and threats all rise. Configuration, integration, operation, maintenance, and enhancement become more challenging, while also more vital to be done right. Data center network service requirements are advancing. Datacenter network solutions and management systems must match up to these advancing requirements. Simple is better. Resilient is better. Responsive is better.

This whitepaper by IDC and sponsored by Nokia outlines the necessary advances in network operations to meet increasing digital business requirements. Download your copy to understand:

• Barriers to network success
• Benefits of network automation
• Key trends in data center networking
• Fundamental shifts in network management