Organizations are developing smarter data center infrastructures leveraging virtualization and automated provisioning capabilities to meet with today's business challenges and the need for more flexible and cost-effective IT.

Using virtualization to decouple hardware and software from their physical infrastructure, and advanced automated provisioning to dynamically and flexibly provide infrastructure when needed gives businesses the tools needed for: cost-effectiveness, rapid deployment of service and the flexibility to respond to future requirements. But networks play a vital role in this smart data center environment. Networks now must be flexible, responsive and managed together with the rest of the IT infrastructure.

"Networking for a smarter data center: Getting it right" from IBM Global Technology Services outlines how to plan the network needed to meet the requirements of today's dynamic data center environments. Learn how to prepare the network for data center evolution, important considerations and approaches for networking that supports the smarter data center by downloading the white paper here.