Talking about BYOD or bring your own device, Ravinder Singh, Director-Sales, Juniper India, commented, “The boundary between professional and personal life has been diminishing rapidly and the same is happening at the workplace too. The sole reason for this is the ongoing revolution in devices and terminals that has changed the way that people work. Today, a person does not require a wired port as wireless is in vogue. Mobility has redefined business practices.”
Singh asserted that the future of computing lay in openness and building a culture of guest devices in organizations. “You must allow the use of devices but, at the same time, you have to ensure seamless provisioning. You need to ensure that secure device management is happening on the network,” he added.
Rajesh Kumar, Senior Technical Consultant at Juniper India, talked of reinventing the data center network. He said that the consolidation of data centers was happening, which had led to the integration of multiple data centers into one and the outsourcing of applications outside the data center.
“Multiple applications run on a single server with virtualization being a key focus area. Storage too is being virtualized and people are talking about converged Ethernet,” Kumar said.
He explained how with the proliferation of Web 2.0, 70% of traffic resided within data centers today. “Data center traffic patterns have changed. To meet this trend, a low latency architecture is required,” he said.
In line with current trends, Kumar suggested that data centers should be based on the models of scalability, high performance, simplicity and lower costs.
