Elvis or SDN? What Are You More Likely to See?

At Interop this week Cisco unveiled a new global IT study that surveys the attitudes of 1,300 IT decision makers in 13 countries. The study provides some interesting insights.

Attitudes toward SDN: Skepticism, interest While real-world deployment of SDN is the focus of many of the 300 exhibitors at Interop 2013, the IT pros Cisco surveyed demonstrated a healthy amount of skepticism.

“When we asked about SDN, thirty-four percent said they were more likely to see Elvis, Bigfoot, or the Loch Ness Monster than an actual SDN deployment,” Inbar Lasser-Raab, senior director of marketing for enterprise networking at Cisco, told Enterprise Networking Planet.

Read the full story at Enterprise Networking Planet:
What’s Realer, SDN or the Loch Ness Monster?

Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.