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= 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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