With the big strategic telco trends now clearly identified as Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, Network Function Virtualisation and Software Defined Networks, IT companies like HP know that they're well placed to play a key role as the tectonic plates of IT and networking finally crunch together in a meaningful way. David Sliter, VP and GM of Communications, Media and Entertainment Solutions at HP tells Abe Nejad how HP can marry IT scale with its best of breed specialist products to deliver cost savings of up to 30 per cent.