New systems, services and Ready Nodes aimed to speed and expand Open Networking; expanded portfolio to accelerate 25GbE adoption in the data center across networking and compute
Dell EMC expanded its Open Networking initiative with new, state-of-the-art infrastructure options, services and implementation capabilities to help customers manage the increasing network demands resulting from their Digital Transformations.
According to industry research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), by 2020, 50% of the Global 2000 will see the majority of their business depend on their ability to create digitally-enhanced products, services, and experiences in response to evolving consumer expectations.
“Transforming IT operations to drive innovation is a foundational element to the broader Digital Transformation efforts happening with Enterprises and Service Providers,” said Tom Burns, senior vice president, Networking, Enterprise Infrastructure and Service Provider Solutions. “Our Open Networking and Ready Nodes solutions are aimed at accelerating transformation, improving agility, lowering costs and enabling new services and applications.”
The new Dell EMC S4200-ON switch using merchant silicon is a state-of-the-art deep-buffer, deep-table 10/100GbE data center switching platform purpose-built for deployment at the top-of-rack (ToR) and Data Center Interconnect applications, an area historically reserved for proprietary routing solutions.
Enterprise and Service Provider Digital Transformation efforts rely on networking advancements to support rapid adoption of new technology for increasing performance requirements and application types. Next-generation 25GbE networking is designed to meet these constantly increasing networking and compute performance requirements.
”With ever-increasing performance and capacity demands on their networks, 25GbE is quickly gaining momentum with customers,” said Sameh Boujelbene, industry analyst at Dell’Oro Group. “We’re expecting that the 25GbE adoption ramp will be faster than that of 10GbE.”
Dell EMC advanced its OS10 Open Networking Enterprise Edition software with new SmartFabric Services. Designed for private cloud, hyper-converged infrastructure and storage environments, SmartFabric Services simplify and automate data center fabric creation, deployment and management.
To help service provider customers accelerate time to market and enterprises customers simplify deployments, Dell EMC created three new Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) Ready Nodes. These provide turnkey SD-WAN capabilities with pre-validated and pre-integrated solutions combining Dell EMC infrastructure with industry-leading SD-WAN software from Silver Peak Systems, VeloCloud Networks and Versa Networks. Architected and tested to Dell EMC standards, these Ready Nodes enable customers to quickly deploy cost effective SD-WAN solutions and services.
IDC states that Digital Transformation efforts including cloud, big data and analytics, mobility and social business will be the most significant driver of SD-WAN growth in the next five years. According to IDC’s latest forecast, the firm estimates that worldwide SD-WAN infrastructure and services revenues will see a compound annual growth rate of 69.6% and reach $8.05 billion in 2021.
“Commercially-available SD-WAN solutions are relatively new but their ability to address pressing enterprise networking needs has led to a rapid embrace of the dynamic architecture they propagate,” said Rohit Mehra, vice president, Network Infrastructure at IDC. “Traditional WANs were not architected for the cloud and are also poorly suited to the security requirements associated with distributed and cloud-based applications.”
As per the release, the Dell EMC S4200-ON and S5048-ON switches, OS10.4 software are expected to become available in the fourth quarter of this year. The SD-WAN Ready Nodes with Silver Peak Systems and Versa Networks are available now, with the VeloCloud Networks SD-WAN Ready Bundle expected in the fourth quarter of this year.
