2024 Network Plans Dogged By Uncertainty, Diverging Strategies
Network World, Thursday, November 2,2023
Many enterprises want to pursue a unified virtual network strategy, but visibility challenges and pressure to curb cloud costs are complicating 2024 network planning.
It's barely fall of 2023, but it's already clear that CIOs aren't particularly positive about their network plans for 2024. Of 83 I have input from, in fact, 59 say they expect 'significant issues' in their network planning for next year, and 71 say that they'll be 'under more pressure' in 2024 than they were this year. Sure, CIOs have a high-pressure job, but their expectations for 2024 are worse than for any year in the past 20 years, other than during Covid. Nobody is saying it's a 'the sky is falling' crisis like the proverbial Chicken Little, but some might be hunching their shoulders just a little.