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Network Intelligence for Physical Assets in a Virtualized Enterprise

Feb 01, 2013

As enterprise IT groups continue to embrace virtualization as a solution for leveraging their hardware budgets, the question becomes, “How are virtual networks, servers, storage arrays, and workstations managed at the physical layer?” Or, as a CIO would ask of his IT organization, “How do you know what type of services are running on this port and what is the value of each to the organization?”



Never in the past have IT groups been asked to do more with their technology that currently exists today without ability to upgrade everything all at once. Separation of operating systems from hardware allows these groups to respond to once expensive implementations by pooling shared and virtualized applications. Re-cabling is typically looked at as disruptive and labor intensive and rarely considered; however with the use of structured cabling and intelligent physical layer networks, upgrades can be achieved effectively and within the internal requests of the business.