Wikibon is a professional community solving technology and business problems through an open source sharing of free advisory knowledge. While the role of software has been important to the technology world for a long time, the emerging software-defined data center or what Wikibon calls “software-led infrastructure” highlights the importance of code over boxes. Sheet metal, ports and devices don’t go away, but as more products are made up of commodity or off-the-shelf components, the intellectual property is in the stack that sits above the physical layer. Hardware does still matter in a software world; hardware that can provide flexibility