Analyst Reports

The Forrester Wave: Open, Programmable Switches For A Businesswide SDN, Q3 2020

Future proofing the network

Looking for product ready automation? Read this analyst report to see how Cumulus Networks is offering comprehensive playbooks to fit any kind of data center or campus deployment.

AvidThink Next-Gen DC Report

AvidThink drills into the future-facing requirements for data centers including what's driving business transformation today, virtualization and containerization, network management and more!

The future of network visibility

Learn about the complexities faced by modern data center networks and how container visibility, telemetry and NetQ can help.

End-to-end visibility in highly containerized data centers

Containers bring agility to the data center like never before, but they also cause visibility issues. Analyst Zeus Kerravala talks how to ensure you get end-to-end visibility in your network.

How network disaggregation is modernizing data centers

This joint whitepaper, written and researched by IDC, discusses the benefits of disaggregation and how Dell and Cumulus Networks have, together, paved the way for open networking.

The benefits of private vs. public cloud

This analyst-written white paper weighs the pros and cons of public vs. private cloud including a discussion on security, scalability and stability.

Web-scale networking for Telcos: The time is now

This industry overview discusses the main challenges in the TELCO industry and how Cumulus Networks can help solve them.

Building a network of pods with HCI

Analyst Lee Doyle writes on gaining network efficiency by building a network of pods using hyper-converged infrastructure and tools like Docker.