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 Driving Shifts in IT Roles
Watch part 3: Offsite Data Replication Becoming Mainstream
Watch part 4: Wide Area Network Bottlenecks Persist
Watch part 5: Move Over VDI, Here Comes HTML5
Can’t see the video here? Try watching on the Silver Peak YouTube channel.