Know your gear
Rapidly growing demands on today's enterprise-scale networks - big data, virtualization, BYOD, layered security, efficient backup, and constant traffic with cloud-based resources - are making traditional layered network design unsustainable over the long term. And while the increased use of virtualized network appliances and applications brings many benefits, it also adds significant lag and latency, with virtualization overhead consuming 20 to 50 percent of compute and I/O resources.