IT Roles Shift with Virtualization

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)

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)

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)

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 [...]