‘It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.’ – Sherlock Holmes .

BigTec is the datacentre transformation VAD that just opened its thirteenth global office in Sydney, Australia. ‘Datacentre transformation’ neatly sums up its global proposition, but often requires a little explaining – especially if terms such as virtualisation and cloud are still a little mysterious to you, or labels like software-defined, hyperconverged and web-scale potentially alien.

“Your data center is so cool!”. That’s the common reaction to web-IT data center networks architected for data-intensive workloads and unprecedented agility. Clos designs optimized for east-west traffic flows and standard layer 3 protocols with ECMP have replaced brittle 3-tier Cisco-style layer 2 networks.

The WAN your company has today will likely be the last you ever use. The race to move applications and services to the cloud, and the availability of high performance broadband is fueling the greatest networking revolution in a generation.