Forrester Thought Leadership Report

New business models have stimulated rapid innovation, accelerating the development of new services. Given the growing pace of enterprise digital transformation, this means that the proportion of digital to non-digital services has increased to a record high. As a result, service data volumes have escalated, all while ever-greater requirements are placed on service continuity and real-time performance. In this context, highly autonomous networks are now essential, supporting rapid network deployment and service provisioning, guaranteeing service continuity, and ensuring services remain uninterrupted.

Huawei commissioned Forrester to carry out the thought leadership report on Autonomous Driving Networks (ADNs): Building Leading Digital Business Competitiveness with a Highly Autonomous Driven Data Center Network (DCN). According to the report, enterprise data centers are transforming, toward cloud data centers — specifically, "multi-cloud and hybrid deployment" — while DCN maturity is moving from Level 3 to Level 4. And the conclusion? Automation levels urgently need to be improved.

How Can You Evaluate the Full-Lifecycle Automation Maturity Level of Your Data Center?

According to Forrester's research, when an enterprise builds an automated DCN, it should take into account the full lifecycle, from planning and construction to Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and optimization, scenario by scenario. As such, DCNs fall into five levels, judged by their maturity.