The Importance of Performance Management In Software-Defined Networking

Overview

Organizations have gained significant benefit from virtualizing servers and storage environments, and now face the daunting task of deploying new network architectures to keep pace. Software-defined networking holds significant promise to deliver anew network architecture that is abstracted and virtualized; however, organizations would be well served to learn from previous efforts to virtualize other domains in order to avoid making the same mistakes. This ESG white paper from Riverbed highlights the potential of Software-Defined Networking and the importance of performance management.