Risk Mitigation: A Strategy for Reducing Risk Through a Single-Vendor Integrated Network

Overview

With the increased reliance on the network for application support, enterprise customers are increasingly focused on the availability of the network. While there are considerations to building a diverse vendor environment, highly available single-vendor architecture is readily achievable. A single-vendor environment also allows the customer to use the network more effectively, by reducing operational expenses as well as providing a foundation for adoption of innovation. This paper discusses the advantages of a single-vendor architecture and review whether a vendor can provide high availability for the entire network architecture.