The Future of Data Center Network Automation

Despite years of predictions about applications and data migrating to the public cloud, data centers remain the indispensable core of any digital infrastructure. Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) defines a data center as a site where a technology organization owns and operates the compute, storage, and network infrastructure necessary for hosting digital applications and services. A technology organization might have direct control of the data center site (e.g., on-premises data center, server rooms, a telco central office), or it might pay for rack space in a hosted environment (e.g., a colocation data center).