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Between January and February 2020, Omdia interviewed 180 network professionals at medium (100–999 employees), large (1,000–9,999 employees), and very large (10,000–500,000 employees) North American enterprises for an in-depth look at the evolving requirements for enterprise edge connectivity, including MPLS-based wide area networks (WANs), and software-defined WANs (SD-WANs). Forty-three percent of respondents came from medium enterprises, 45% from large ones, and 12% from very large ones Enterprise IT architectures and consumption models are undergoing a major transformation, from servers and applications placed at individual enterprise sites to a hybrid and multicloud model, where centralized, highly utilized servers in enterprise-operated data centers (DCs) are complemented with best-of-breed infrastructure as a service (IaaS). This allows organizations to bring the benefits of cloud architectures—simplified management, agility, and scalability—to their own data centers and leverage the on-demand aspect of cloud services during peak periods. In addition, respondents are also investing heavily in software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, increasing their dependency on third parties. |
