At Federal Forum 2015, Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) unveiled the outcomes of a federal IT survey revealing that lower than 15 p.c of respondents really feel their company’s present community infrastructure might be in a position to absolutely assist the options mandatory to ship world-class digital companies for presidency.
Commissioned by Brocade and performed by Market Connections, the examine polled 200 IT choice makers throughout 64 federal companies. Other key findings embrace:
Ninety p.c of respondents imagine open requirements are vital and though virtually half (47 p.c) are contemplating or planning to undertake them within the subsequent few years, solely 11 p.c have made the transition. Security considerations have been the generally cited cause for not contemplating open requirements.
Seventy p.c of respondents are contemplating, planning or have already moved to software-defined networking (SDN), citing efficiency and ease of administration as main benefits.
Eighty-eight p.c of respondents have deployed virtualized companies on the community together with firewalls, load balancers and routers.
Budget constraints (greater than 55 p.c) and restricted inside assets and experience (greater than 40 p.c) are high challenges companies face to bettering the community’s simplicity, agility and scalability.
“Networks based on traditional IP technologies limit an agency’s ability to take advantage of the incredible innovations that are happening in IT, an evolution that IDC calls the 3rd Platform,” mentioned Rohit Mehra, vp, Network Infrastructure at IDC. “These advancements can enable dramatic improvements to the way agencies can securely deliver digital services to citizens, military personnel, government employees and veterans.”
To successfully assist authorities capabilities, the federal IT community should endure modernization and transition to the New IP, a extra modern strategy to networking. Software-enabled, user-centric and primarily based on open requirements, New IP networks are safer and assist the limitless functions and companies being developed for cloud, cellular, social and Big Data situations. In New IP networks, conventional identity-based safety is augmented by behavioral-based capabilities that may determine and act on uncommon community exercise in actual time.
The survey reveals federal companies are making progress on their path to community modernization via implementations of SDN and virtualized companies. However, a major hole stays within the adoption of open requirements. In the New IP period, “open” means utilizing standards-based merchandise, companies and APIs to cut back vendor lock-in whereas enabling larger alternative amongst best-in-class options and minimizing community complexity. Survey respondents cite larger flexibility and decreased prices as their most important causes for adopting open requirements.
“The legacy networks used in government today were conceived two decades ago and were never designed, or even envisioned, to handle the types of digital services that are required today,” mentioned Anthony Robbins, vp of Federal at Brocade. “Transitioning to New IP networks will allow agencies to turn their infrastructure into true digital government enablers that can deliver world-class services to federal employees, citizens and military.”
Research Methodology
Market Connections performed an internet survey with 200 federal authorities IT choice makers and influencers in April 2015. Sixty-four completely different federal companies participated within the survey. Of these, 60 p.c represented federal civilian and 40 p.c represented Department of Defense or the intelligence group.
About Federal Forum 2015
Now in its fourth 12 months, Federal Forum brings collectively authorities and IT leaders to share insights about present and future know-how challenges and the way to handle them. To view the agenda and an inventory of audio system, please go to federalforum2015.com.
Additional Resources
Blog: Planning the Data Center of the Future
The Necessity of Network Modernization
About Brocade
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