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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Increasingly Complex Networks and Outdated Network Facilities and Technologies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

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   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.