Worldwide Datacenter Network Forecast, 2018-2022
This IDC study provides a forecast for and analyzes key trends affecting the worldwide market for datacenter networking."Ostensibly, the worldwide datacenter network retains a relatively enviable growth profile. Nonetheless, cloud is having a disruptive effect on all datacenter networking technologies and markets, and that disruption presents challenges and opportunities for suppliers and their customers." — Brad Casemore, IDC research vice president, Datacenter Networks
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- IDC Market Forecast Figure
- Executive Summary
- Advice for Technology Suppliers
- Market Forecast
- Worldwide Datacenter Network Revenue by Technology
- Worldwide Datacenter Network Revenue by Region
- Worldwide Datacenter Network Revenue by Cloud Deployment
- Worldwide Datacenter Networks by Architecture
- Cloud and the Need for Ever-Greater Speed
- Market Context
- Drivers and Inhibitors
- Drivers
- Cloud
- 3rd Platform
- Inhibitors
- Economic Crisis Duration/Potential Relapse
- Ongoing Enterprise IT Skills Shortage
- Significant Market Developments
- Changes from Prior Forecast
- Market Definition
- Ethernet (Layer 2-3) Switch
- Application Delivery Controllers
- ADC as a Service
- WAN Optimization
- Fibre Channel Switch
- InfiniBand Switch
- Network Virtualization Overlay and SDN Controller Software
- Methodology
- Related Research
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