Trends
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- 2015 - Software expense more than hardware in Company's. Software is becoming the differentiator, and hardware commodity
Storage Disk etc.
- 2015 - Quick move from spinning disks to SSD. 3D NAND Flash increasing density.
Access time of flash for Spinning HD > 5ms
- Higher density servers, and consolidated storage.
- 2015 - FC still dominant , but will move to object/file based e.g. NFS
- FC does not have native IP support.
- 2015 Linux is becoming the dominant firmware used in most devices.
- Network gear e.g. Cisco NXOS, Arista EOS
- VMWare hypervisor
- Devices e.g. printers, AP's etc.
Security
- 2015 - Real-time automated patching of software becoming the standard. e.g. Chrome + Firefox update in background, same with Windows.
- 2015 - Perimeter firewall in corporates, moving closer to DC(data center) and into hyper-visor, for distributed FW on each server.
== Networking ==
- 2015 - Wan interfaces are converging to Ethernet, 100M, 1G, 10G - Cheaper and std., away form serial, etc.
2015 - Network equipment becoming programmable and emphasis on automation and DevOps.
User Applications / Desktop
- 2015 - The browser is becoming the standard application interface. HTML5 + Javascript.
- 2013 Apple not supporting Flash on mobile devices.
- 201505 Chrome stopping support for Java.
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