IT Pro Ranking: Data Center Networking
IT Pro Ranking: Data Center Networking
Data center networking has largely involved two vendors—Cisco on the Ethernet side and Brocade (though often relabeled) for SAN/Fibre Channel. Our InformationWeek Analytics Data Center Networking Vendor Evaluation Survey of 468 business technology professionals shows that in terms of vendors’ overall evaluation scores among respondents, Cisco and Brocade are still leaders, though HP has worked its way into a three-way tie, and other vendors are not far behind.
As data center architects consider converged infrastructures and in-rack networking, it appears the playing field is more level than we might have guessed. (R1891010)
Survey Name: InformationWeek Analytics Data Center Networking Vendor Evaluation Survey
Survey Date: July 2010
Region: North America
Number of Respondents: 468
Table of Contents
3 Executive Summary
4 Shakeup Time?
4 Figure 1: Replace Or Add Vendors
5 Figure 2: Factors Resulting In A Change In Vendor
6 Figure 3: Data Center Networking Vendors Used
7 Figure 4: Importance of Evaluation Criteria
8 Figure 5: Importance of Data Center Network Features
10 Figure 6: Data Center Networking Vendor Aggregated Score
11 Appendix
11 Figure 7: Vendor Evaluation, Arranged By Vendor
12 Figure 8: Vendor Feature Evaluations, Arranged By Vendor
13 Figure 9: Vendor Feature Evaluations, Arranged By Vendor (continued)
14 Figure 10: Feature Evaluation, Arranged By Feature
15 Figure 11: Vendor Evaluations, Arranged By Evaluation Criteria
16 Figure 12: Vendor Feature Evaluation, Arranged By Feature Criteria
17 Figure 13: Job Title
18 Figure 14: Company Revenue
19 Figure 15: Industry
20 Figure 16: Company Size
21 Biography
22 Research Synopsis
About the Author
Art Wittmann currently serves as the director of InformationWeek Reports, where he oversees both the business and content of InformationWeek's research and reports business. Art has over 17 years of experience in high-tech publishing, during which time he has been editor-in-chief of Network Magazine, IT Architect and Network Computing. From 1996 to 1999, Art was editor of Network Computing. He currently writes the Practical Analysis column for InformationWeek.
Prior to his work in IT journalism, Art was associate director of the Computer Aided Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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