(Editor’s note: Enterprise Management Associates took a look at enterprise network automation initiatives and found that 89% of them contribute to IT an organization’s decision to purchase products from a new network infrastructure vendor. This article by EMA’s research director for network management, Shamus McGillicuddy, reviews three reasons enterprises might do so based on EMA’s recent report “Enterprise Network Automation for 2020 and Beyond.” For the report, 250 IT professionals directly involved in a formal network-automation initiative were surveyed, and one-on-one interviews were conducted with six such stakeholders.)
（最近的企业管理员工关于253家企业关于他们在Covid-19大流行期间使用应用程序交付基础设施的调查发现，用户访问应用程序如何对该基础架构进行调整的变化。结果已发布一个EMA报告“应用程序交付基础架构对于多云企业。“ 本文由EMA研究网络网络梵盖副总裁Shamus McGillicuddy讨论了调查结果。）
部署灵活性是软件定义的WAN（SD-WAN）技术的最有趣的方面之一。一些解决方案提供商提供全面的灵活性，而其他的都规定。
EMA has studied SD-WAN deployment flexibility and found a wide variety of enterprise strategies in practice today. Individual network teams will have to decide for themselves what works for them. EMA identified several aspects of SD-WAN deployment flexibility that enterprises should consider when selecting a solution.
Procurement Flexibility: Selecting Your Solution Provider
First, there is the question of procurement strategy. Like many classes of technology, enterprises have many options for buying and installing SD-WAN technology. EMA found that the most popular approach (34%) is to buy SD-WAN from a WAN service provider or internet service provider. Many network providers offer managed SD-WAN services or simply resell SD-WAN technology.
Improved network security is a top business driver of SD-WAN adoption, as a previous blog in this series revealed. However, SD-WAN isn’t necessarily an off-the-shelf panacea for all your network security challenges. While the typical SD-WAN products include some native security capabilities, an enterprise must take an approach that combines native SD-WAN security with integrated, on-premises, and cloud-based security solutions.
Some early adopters of SD-WAN have failed to take this comprehensive approach. For instance, EMA’s WAN Transformation research found that enterprises that have completed a production deployment of an SD-WAN solution are 1.3 times more likely than the average enterprise to have experienced a security breach in a remote site over the last year. EMA suspects that these particular enterprises have been oversold on the native security capabilities of their chosen vendors.
(Editor’s note: Enterprise Management Associates took a look at how individual organizations choose, implement and use network performance management (NPM) tools. In this article, EMA’s research director for network management, Shamus McGillicuddy, presents some findings and suggests some best practices based on EMA’s recent report “Network Performance Management for Today’s Digital Enterprise” that’s based on a survey of 250 network managers.)
（内幕故事）如果一个软件定义的WAN（SD-WAN）的供应商叫你起来，说，你需要他们的产品，因为它会帮助你省钱，挂断了电话。
Okay, maybe you shouldn’t hang up the phone—but you should at least tell him that he’s selling his product wrong.
It’s true that the early conversations about SD-WAN were all about cost savings, and those promised cost savings were to come via replacing MPLS with internet connectivity. To some extent, SD-WAN definitely delivers on this promise. That being said, saving money is not the real business driver for SD-WAN.
(Editor’s note: Recent research by Enterprise Management Associates takes a look at how enterprises regard cloud management tools. This article by Shamus McGillicuddy, EMA’s research director for network management, details highlights of “Network Engineering and Operations in the Multi-Cloud Era,” a report based on EMA’s survey of 250 IT professionals and telephone interviews with a half dozen IT leaders.)
（内幕故事）在2018年，首次云和软件定义数据中心的关注已成为企业网络团队的主要焦点，从顶部斑点碰撞服务器虚拟化，根据企业管理协会（EMA）的基础上251北美的调查和欧洲企业网络管理人员报告
这是十几年来在他们的优先级的首班。自2008年以来，EMA一直要求网络管理员，以确定推动其优先事项广义IT举措。服务器虚拟化已经一年后主导它们的响应一年。云和软件定义的数据中心（SDDC）架构一直仲或叔的驱动雷竞技电脑网站程序。