Much talked about, but little explained – let’s look at the trends behind the acronyms set to become a big reality for many more enterprises in 2015.
When people want to talk to you about ‘Software Defined Networks’ and ‘Network Functions Virtualisation’, you could be forgiven for glazing over. But they are both just technical ways of saying that we stand at the beginning of the end for proprietary vendor hardware, and put an end to the idea that if you want a firewall or a switch or an optimisation device, then one must be carved out of metal and shipped to you.