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Just as companies once began to hire cloud service providers to abstract away as much computing and storage as possible, they are now beginning to do the same with networks.
The enterprise is starting to look beyond ordinary routers and switches to a network-centered approach that interconnects applications, offices, employees and users.
“I think the cloud providers individually are abstracting away as much of the network as they possibly can,” said Caroline Chappell (pictured left), research director at Analysys Mason Ltd. “Cloud providers want to appear to developers just as some kind of plumbing. And it’s very easy now for enterprises to say, ‘OK, I want this service and I’m just going to go through their API and connect to it.’ And that’s why you get in a situation of multiple, multiple clouds.”