[1] Brocade has carried out a survey of 570 resellers and distributors in the Australian channel about the importance of software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization to resellers.
[2] The majority (60%) found the SDN and network functions virtualization to be very significant to the resellers.
[3] These results show that there is a general business opportunity for the channel in the market, with many partners being optimistic virtualization of customer data centers will be done fast.