The digital era has arrived and is changing the business landscape faster than ever. This is why digital transformation has become a top mandate for almost every IT and business leader.

A critical step in the journey to becoming a digital organization is transforming into an agile business. Doing so requires the business’s IT infrastructure to be dynamic and able to adapt when required. However, an organization can only be as agile as its least agile IT component, which today is the network—particularly the network edge. In this guide, you’ll learn how the rise of software-defined networks (SDNs) has transformed the data center. Software defined wide-area networks (SD-WANs) have modernized the WAN, but the edge largely has stood still.