Now Is The Time To Grab Market Share

Approximately 65 percent of survey respondents said they are currently conducting data center SDN lab trials or will do so later this year. 

"As SDN in the enterprise data center grows legs in 2015, thought leadership in this nascent market will give way to market share leaders with measurable revenue," said Cliff Grossner, research director for data center, cloud and SDN at the research company, in a release.  "Now is the time for existing and new vendors to grab market share. Respondents are moving from lab trials in 2015 to production trials in 2016 and to live production in 2017."

The report also listed some of the popular data center SDN use cases, which were application deployment, automation for disaster recovery and enabling hybrid cloud.