As business embraces the digital world, IT needs to deliver applications and services to meet digital requirements that are agile, sustainable and secure. The global COVID-19 pandemic has completely shifted the way in which people work, with many more working remotely. It has also led businesses to accelerate the use of machinery and robots to complete tasks, which now means there is more focus than ever on connecting things to the network. The network topologies used in the early millennium have not kept pace with changes in how applications are accessed, how dynamic users have become, or even what the user is: a person, or a machine?