We call it VM sprawl, but what we should call it is application sprawl, and managing applications in a dynamic environment poses just as many - if not more - stressors on the entire application infrastructure.

VM sprawl is predicted to be one of the outcomes of early adoption and excitement over virtualization. Just as IT struggled to manage the explosion of PCs and servers across the enterprise, it is predicted that now it will need to find a way to manage the explosion of virtual machines as they pop up all over the enterprise with surprising alacrity.

Part of the difficulty in managing new technology is the rogue deployment of X. Whether that's physical or virtual servers is irrelevant, the challenges associated with managing what are essentially unmanaged applications and servers deployed outside normal organizational processes are the same.

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The network industry needs to respond to the demands coming from new enterprise initiatives, including virtualization and cloud computing.  Unitil it articulates that vision it will become increasingly irrelevant to new enterprise initiatives.  And those initiatives will suffer.

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Thanks to Infoblox and Cisco you can now get a glimpse of the impact that new initiatives (on the horizon for most of the world’s largest corporations) will have on your network and the ultimate evolution of dynamic infrastructure.  This glimpse will give you a broader perspective on how your role today will be shaped by tomorrow’s demands.

Why Dynamic Infrastructure Matters

Cisco has predicted that the network will connect 14 billion devices by 2010.  This level of connectivity promises to make the network even more strategic to business operations in coming years, as Cisco's Chambers has already suggested. 

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I think it is very likely that network infrastructure will be transformed in coming years by new levels of automation and connectivity intelligence driven by demands from new IT initiatives, from RFID to collaboration, data center virtualization and even cloud computing.  I think we’ll call this transformed, dynamic network and all of its potentials “Infrastructure 2.0.” 

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TCP/IP is continuing to spread and connect to more endpoints; Cisco has predicted that the network will connect 14 billion devices by 2010.  This level of connectivity promises to make the network even more strategic to business operations in coming years, as Cisco’s Chambers has suggested.  It certainly will be an even more powerful force in the global economy.

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