2017 will be the year that yields a new, better definition of hybrid.

This combined approach will give enterprises the flexibility and scalability they need.

IoT devices will leverage IPv6 to address efficiency, scale, and security.

Enterprises must pay attention to maintaining service availability for applications and workloads hosted in AWS.

AI allows IoT to turn insight into action.

Instead of removing one server, they removed hundreds of servers.

More and more data centers are transitioning from a vertical architecture to software-defined storage.

Organizations must build key programming skills in their network engineers.

The branch network and WAN remain a challenge for most enterprise IT teams.

The cloud is very different from the datacenter.

DPI will not support agile application development.

It is worth recalling that not all things are created equal.

SD-WAN is a temporary solution – not a market.

What used to take hours now takes minutes, or less.

More than a mere trend, SD-WAN is the way of the future.

Enterprises have three options: Direct Internet Access (DIA); backhauling all traffic to centralized data centers; and regional hubs.

IT teams need to be aware of the factors that can derail a migration project.

As with many emerging technologies, there are pros and cons to SD-WAN adoption

SDN is an ideal methodology to push policies to campus networks.

The attack landscape has broadened.

Don't rely on a hodge-podge of disjointed tools to run your network.

New opportunities for how data centers can manage their IT infrastructures.

Telcos looking at virtualization can look to where it's been done before.

It was the NFV Year of the Storm.