Autonomous Driving Network Thought Leadership Paper Release Paves the Way for Autonomous Driving Networks
PR94755
BARCELONA, Spain, March 1, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
During the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022, Huawei commissioned Forrester
Consulting to conduct a study about the autonomous driving network thought
leadership paper — "Building Leading Digital Business Competitiveness with A
Highly Autonomous Driven Data Center Network (DCN)". The paper discusses how
enterprise data centers are transforming to modern cloud data centers
represented by "multi-cloud and hybrid deployment", while DCNs are shifting
from Level 3 to Level 4. The paper urges automation growth, along with
suggesting ways enterprise data center networks can evolve towards a higher
level of autonomy.
Forrester surveyed IT leaders and technical decision-makers of 197 large and
midsize enterprises/organizations worldwide on the current status, challenges,
and transformation goals of their data center networks.
New Technologies and Business Models Drive Data Center Networks Towards High
Autonomy
According to the paper, 61.9% of enterprises are building data centers using
private and hybrid clouds. Data centers deployed on the cloud provide
enterprises with on-demand self-service, ubiquitous access, resource pooling,
rapid elasticity, and measurable standard service capabilities. All this
demands highly autonomous driving networks. At the same time, increasingly
fierce market competition and fast business model innovation pose more
stringent requirements on service continuity and real-time performance. These
rising business demands also require more autonomy for fast network deployment
and service provisioning, as well as to guarantee service continuity and
prevent business interruptions.
Increasingly Complex Networks and Outdated Network Facilities and Technologies
Are Key Challenges on the Way to Autonomous Driving Networks
After self-assessment, 64% of the surveyed enterprises believe that their data
centers are in the L3 phase — conditional autonomous driving network.
Technologies such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and SDN help
data center networks improve automation and intelligent O&M. However,
enterprises still face many challenges in automatic deployment and
implementation. Especially, the construction and O&M phases still heavily rely
on experts' advice and employee skills, which is inefficient and error-prone.
In fact, most enterprises rely on vendors' solutions (covering automated
implementation plans, processes, and related tools) to achieve a certain degree
of automation for the single-cloud and single-DC network. As enterprise data
centers develop rapidly, multi-DC, multi-cloud, and heterogeneous networks are
becoming the new norm, exponentially increasing network complexity. As a
result, the existing solutions, tools, and skills cannot meet the requirements.
Data centers are not built in one go. 50.8% of the surveyed enterprises said
that they still utilize many old networks and devices while expanding and
building their data center infrastructure. However, traditional network
architecture is not flexible and evolves slowly. As such, it's hard to automate
older networks. This signals another key issue — finding ways to rebuild
outdated infrastructure and technologies to protect past investments.
Best Practices and Partnerships Can Accelerate Evolution
Forrester suggests that enterprises formulate clear data center network
automation goals and evolution paths based on their current status and
strategies. They can also learn from industry best practices. Network
automation involves all aspects of technology — including network devices,
hybrid cloud architecture, and automation — so it is difficult for enterprises
to accomplish by themselves. The solution is to draw on the strengths of
partners to accelerate automation, staying ahead of the competition.
Huawei CloudFabric 3.0 Comes Top in L3.5 Autonomous Driving Data Center Networks
Recently, Tolly Group — a global provider of testing and third-party validation
and certification services — compared Huawei CloudFabric 3.0 Hyper-Converged
Data Center Network Solution and a mainstream data center SDN solution. The
report rated Huawei's solution with 3.51 points — far higher than the 2.8
points received by the mainstream solution. It is also the only L3.5 data
center autonomous driving network solution that has been verified by Tolly.
Huawei CloudFabric 3.0 Hyper-Converged Data Center Network Solution provides
full-lifecycle automation and intelligent O&M capabilities for data center
networks. It draws on several innovative technologies, such as the open
programmability framework, service orchestration platform, digital twin, and
knowledge graph. These allow Huawei CloudFabric 3.0 to centrally manage
multi-DC, multi-cloud, heterogeneous networks, provision services in seconds,
perform simulation and verification, as well as locate faults between
applications and networks. The solution facilitates agile service innovation
and enables real-time service provisioning. Huawei CloudFabric 3.0 has been
widely used across industries such as finance, government, large enterprises,
and carriers, accelerating enterprises' digital transformation and helping
customers achieve business success.
MWC Barcelona 2022 runs from February 28 to March 3 in Barcelona, Spain. Huawei
showcases its products and solutions at stand 1H50 in Fira Gran Via Hall 1.
Together with global operators, industry professionals, and opinion leaders, we
dive into topics such as industry trends, GUIDE for the future, and green
development to envision the future of digital networks. For more information,
please visit: https://e.huawei.com/en/events/huawei-enterprise-mwc-2022
SOURCE: Huawei
Image Attachments Links:
Link: http://asianetnews.net/view-attachment?attach-id=416087
Caption: Autonomous driving network thought leadership paper release
Link: http://asianetnews.net/view-attachment?attach-id=416089
Caption: Surveyed enterprises' self-assessment on the maturity of key capabilities in
their data centers. Base: 197 respondents from large sized organizations
globally with multiple data center requirements. Source: Data center network
automation survey, a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on
behalf of Huawei, Jan 2022.
本プレスリリースは発表元が入力した原稿をそのまま掲載しております。また、プレスリリースへのお問い合わせは発表元に直接お願いいたします。
このプレスリリースには、報道機関向けの情報があります。
プレス会員登録を行うと、広報担当者の連絡先や、イベント・記者会見の情報など、報道機関だけに公開する情報が閲覧できるようになります。