SDN transition can be daunting. It requires new skills set that most internal IT organizations lack. The two underlying concepts of SDN are programmability and centralized control. Unfortunately, most networking professionals lack important programming skills.

For MSPs, this challenge is more of an incentive to invest more in equipping their staff with relevant skills to be able to effectively manage IT systems. Besides, SDN allows for scalability of services across different customers, so MSPs stand to gain if they are well equipped.

Unfortunately, SDN is evolving at a relatively slow pace. Most of the enterprises with highly virtualized data centers often face deployment challenges in their quest for a rapid deployment, more automation, and more granular configurations. There are several open source orchestration tools that are available for free download. However, interoperability issues still persist.

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