Network Services

As companies are turning their attention back to digital transformation, both to emerge stronger from disruption and more importantly, to get back to work, network solutions must be modern, agile and efficient enough to adapt to change and support ongoing cloud transformation. Global IT decision-makers often experience cloud-related network issues caused by legacy infrastructure. Traditional network connections do not support the distributed nature of cloud services, resulting in degraded user experience.

Successful network transformation requires a new way of thinking about the network solutions and a commitment from business, development and operational leaders across the enterprise. The need for faster time to market and resiliency of network services drives the need for programmable networks.

The enterprise network of the future will drive virtualization across the enterprise (legacy) infrastructure through SDN which will enable the enterprise for wide area networking at scale. SDN has revolutionized the way networks are conceptualized, designed, deployed and managed. As workloads shift to cloud and applications modernize for cloud, service chaining these virtualized network functions and platforms (VNFs/NFV’s) that reside in the legacy data center and cloud environments will need a dev-ops mindset and orchestration and automation to drive consistency across these diverse environments. Software Defined Networking (SDN) Services from IBM helps redefine your cloud journey and infuse a software-defined approach to your networks.