Networks have been pretty bland and generic for the past 20 years. There has been innovation, but it has been more about playing to existing themes and less about the disruption that we have seen in servers, storage, and even datacenters. But new workloads and data patterns will challenge companies like Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, and Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise from established non-network players from other markets like Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft as well as startups like Big Switch Networks and Cumulus Networks. In the past, networks and computing were very centralized, but changing workloads are pushing compute and network control out of the center of the network and out to the edges. It’s time for businesses to start thinking outside the box because the real action on the network might be outside of the datacenter, either at the edge or in the cloud.

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