"Network technology is rapidly changing as cloud, compute and security demands grow. This creates a challenge for infrastructure and operations leaders, requiring a comprehensive network strategy to make better investment decisions."
The Strategic Roadmap for Enterprise Networking covers:
- Although network operations are largely manual, emerging technological advances will shift dramatically to more-automated processes enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) during the next three to five years.
- AI language model workloads, including training and inference models, require higher-performance network connectivity and constitute only a small percentage of enterprise compute resources in data centers and in the cloud. However, we expect this to grow dramatically near-term.
- Adoption of SD-WAN and SASE, along with hybrid work policies, are driving increased investments in internet connectivity and cloud-based security and, to a much lesser extent, consumption-based services.
- Enterprise network and security operations are largely siloed, but we expect this to shift as organisations increasingly implement zero-trust principles.
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Gartner 2025 Strategic Roadmap for Enterprise Networking, Karen Brown, Tim Zimmerman, 22 October 2024
