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I am a marketing consultant from eTeam, a consulting agency, working at HPE with a background in business development, product marketing, product management and engineering within networking and storage...
Full bioNetwork as-a-Service (NaaS) has been around as an industry term for many years. Most people immediately think of compute power and storage when it comes to Everything as-a-Service (XaaS) or Infrastructure as-a-Service (IaaS). Why is NaaS the latecomer to the mix? What has changed? I’ve had the great opportunity to talk to a variety of industry experts and the brilliant minds within HPE Aruba, and the collective thoughts come down to these top five reasons.
The Shifting Network Landscape
Organizations traditionally invested significant resources in IT specialists to design, build, and operate internal networks. The task was a very labor-intensive experience for connecting everyone with physical in-house devices accessing centralized applications within a data center. Network hardware had to be procured, pre-staged, cabled, installed, and configured to provide users inside an enterprise office using dedicated in-house devices to connect to on-premise networks. This was all required to gain access to enterprise applications inside the data center.
Today, almost all of these conditions and elements have changed. There are several shifts that have changed the dynamics of the traditional operation of internal networks.
1. Workplace shift
For quite some time, laptops and mobile devices have enabled users to conveniently access enterprise applications from outside the office and onto non-enterprise networks (cellular, home broadband). The current Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated wider adoption of the shift to the hybrid workplace with many people forced to work from home.
2. Device shift
The emergence of bring your own device (BYOD) and mobile devices owned by users are being used to access and use enterprise applications. The shift from dedicated enterprise devices has changed to devices no longer owned by organizations. Today an end user can do work from a plethora of home devices, even their smart watches.
3. Technology shift
Due to the shift in the workplace and the shift in device usage, the need for direct connection to on-premise networks has changed. Cellular, WAN, and SD-WAN solutions have changed connectivity to on-premise networks.
4. Application hosting shift
The development and adoption of SaaS has removed the requirement to gain direct access to enterprise applications within an enterprise network. The movement of internal applications and cloud solutions for enterprises pushed applications out of the organizational IT hands and out of the enterprise data center. Today web-based applications enable anytime and anywhere access.
虽然当今的企业本地网络主要是由IT组织设计，建造和运营的，但采购方法正在不断发展。随着企业拥抱公共云以及工作场所，设备和技术的转变，公司网络周边实际上消失了。竞争压力迫使组织专注于其核心业务能力而不是网络。这需要IT人员将采购，设计，建立和运行网络的遗留方式更改为更敏捷和动态的网络。随着安全问题的日益增长的复杂性，组织常常发现自己分心于战略工作负载对网络问题的反应。资源时间和费用通常用于故障排除，确定根本原因以及对网络上的最新事件或攻击进行修复。
5. Covid-19
Finally, there are no surprises here. Covid-19 brings another reason for highlighting the new demand for NaaS, in addition to expanding the shift in workplace. The impact of as-a-Service models are providing organizations with the financial flexibility to achieve continued business objectives without requiring significant capital investments all around, whether it is for compute, storage or network resources. Covid-19 has impacted organizations to preserve their cash.HPE Aruba COO, Vishal, speaks about this in his interview with CRN.
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