The Top 5 Trends in Enterprise Networking and Why They Matter: a Gartner Trend Insight Report

As enterprise network technology demands increase, companies are increasing network spending, indicating what we believe is a major industry shift to data centric architecture.

• According to Gartner®, the worldwide annual network spending will increase 6.7% — or $79.04 billion – in 2022
• Cloud and Edge infrastructure is becoming more complicated, and more critical
• Solving for Hybrid IT has never been more important

Infrastructure & Operations leaders must invest strategically to support innovation where it matters the most.

This research report identifies the top five trends with the potential to improve enterprise network infrastructure and operations in the next two years. It explains how I&O leaders should include them in their strategic plans.

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Gartner, The Top 5 Trends in Enterprise Networking and Why They Matter: A Gartner Trend Insight Report, Karen Brown, Andrew Lerner, 13 May 2022.