Technology & Innovation

The network highway of tomorrow: Redefining enterprise networking

October 09, 2019

Global

October 09, 2019

Global
Emily Wasik

Senior editor

Based across three continents – in NYC, Berlin, London, and Brisbane, Australia – Emily has spent the past 14 years working as an editorial lead, intelligence consultant, research analyst, journalist and trend forecaster. She has worked for global media powerhouses from the likes of Huffington Post and VICE Media to business intelligence firms and innovation labs like PSFK and KKLD to Fortune 500 companies from Coca Cola to MINI.

Emily specialises in identifying white space opportunities, finding the stories worth telling, and creating a heightened level of awareness about how the world is changing and the opportunities to be seized. She has presented at various conferences around the world and used to be the host of her own creative intelligence podcast.

At Economist Impact, she has led various research programs – from conception to creation and cross-platform execution – across innovation, tech, healthcare, workforce, education and sustainability, and the pivotal nexus where all these things intersect.

Emily studied interdisciplinary creativity (journalism, public relations, marketing and creative writing) at Queensland University of Technology, and international business (minoring in economics and anthropology) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She can speak fluent German and has spent 12 years learning Japanese.

Digital transformation has gone from novelty to norm in recent years—one would be hard pressed to find any organisation today that is not a digital organisation.

This report explores the drivers that will shape enterprise networking in the near future. We explore the opportunities for organisations to redefine their networking infrastructure to best support computing advances in cloud and virtualisation, and the actionable takeaways for how companies can achieve the best results.

Within this report, we define enterprise networking as an organisation’s communications foundation. This allows computers and related devices to connect across departments and networks, facilitating a wide range of activities. By edge computing, we refer to the distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to where they are needed, improving response times and saving bandwidth. We define cloud as the self-sustained, on-demand availability of computer system resources, such as data storage and computing power, among other things. 

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