Investors buy into software-defined networks, will customers follow?


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 03 Jul 2013

PROMISING: Established operators such as IBM Corp and Microsoft Corp are starting to pursue SDN, a technology that market research firm IDC says could generate annual revenue of RM11.78bil within just three years. — Reuters

As Superstorm Sandy bore down on the US East coast last year, companies with datacentres in its path needed another location fast. But moving computer servers is tricky, and usually planned over days or weeks. 

Enter a new technology: software-defined networking, or SDN. Such urgent data moves could now be done within a few hours. 

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