Part six of a video series on 2013 IT trends features Silver Peak founder and CTO David Hughes talking about the vendor-imposed hardware refresh cycle. Hughes highlights which networking and data center functions will remain hardware and which will move to software. Watch part 1: Software Defined Networking (SDN) – Hype or Reality? Watch part 2: Virtualization [...]
IT Roles Shift with Virtualization
Mar 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Beyond just being a technology, virtualization is beginning to drive shifts in the way people organize their IT departments. It opens the door for non-networking IT professionals to solve their data mobility challenges without necessarily involving the networking department. Emerging concepts like software-defined data acceleration and network function virtualization (NFV) will help storage and application [...]
Wide Area Network Bottlenecks Persist (Video)
Feb 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Whether it’s increasing data volumes, expanding data replication requirements, or the overall growth of traffic on the Internet, there is no denying that the wide area network (WAN) bottleneck is more of a problem today than ever before. In fact, the increase in traffic and data traversing enterprise networks is outpacing the level of innovation [...]
Virtualization Driving Shifts in IT Roles (Video)
Jan 24, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Virtualization is having more than just a technological impact, it is also driving shifts in the way companies organize their information technology (IT) departments. In part two of this video series featuring Silver Peak founder and CTO David Hughes, Dr. Hughes discusses how virtualization is driving organizational change within IT departments and how the traditional [...]
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) — Hype or Reality? (Video)
Jan 16, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Is Software-Defined Networking (SDN) real, or just PowerPoint? Silver Peak founder and CTO David Hughes talks about what’s real and what’s not when it comes to SDN. Hughes highlights that certain hypervisor-centric network elements will be deployed as software in the enterprise, citing the cost and simplicity benefits. Watch this video to learn more and [...]
Silver Peak CTO and Founder, Dr. David Hughes, in the Big Apple
Jan 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
You’ve read about David Hughes’ technology visions — now you can see him present in person! Join us in Manhattan for lunch and an interactive discussion about how WAN optimization has changed over the last year — and how you can derive even more from the technology. Learn how today’s demanding applications can benefit (reducing [...]
WAN Optimization Outlook
Mar 25, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Silver Peak founder and CTO David Hughes provides an outlook on WAN Optimization and the implications around MPLS connections, bandwidth, file transfers, and application centralization.
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