IBM b-type Data Center Networking: Design and Best Practices Introduction

Smarter data center

During the past few decades, the network in the data center has not been given much attention. The IT infrastructure went from a centralized mainframe model to a distributed/geographically spread model driven mainly by the economics of the solutions.

However, the rapid development of new high speed network technologies changed this situation in a very dramatic way. The business potential of a smarter, globalized, interconnected world with highly available shared secure resources has come to the foreground. This was the newborn ...