Things are moving smartly forward in the world of upstart, disruptive networking technologies such as software-defined networking and network functions virtualization, as open source stewards in both camps have come out with new software releases.
It offers hyperconvergence for up to four servers.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/09/2015
Those systems are using energy but doing almost no work.
NEC Corp. today announced two new switches ready for software-defined networking applications in big datacenters run by telecommunications carriers and service providers.
One journalist calls it "the best of several bad options for Windows users."
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/08/2015
Two new datacenters in Canada will bring the global total to 22.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/08/2015
Alcatel-Lucent has teamed up with HP to feature HP Networking technology -- including software-defined networking -- in its cloud datacenter solutions for IP and optical networks.
Bromium isolates tasks in tiny Xen hypervisors, then kills the hypervisor when the task is done.
The open source SDN Open Network Operating System used in conjunction with new-age networking technologies such as software-defined networking is out with a number of updates, including improved performance and more feature sets.
Blue Box and Piston are swallowed up by Cisco and IBM.
The number of independent OpenStack vendors is rapidly shrinking.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/03/2015
New-age technologies such as software-defined networking and network functions virtualization promise all kinds of benefits -- programmability, agility, lower cost and so on -- but have a lot of moving parts that need to be tied together, which paves the way for the flurry of new orchestration solutions hitting the market
It will be free for users of Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 for the first year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/02/2015
The study also found that two out three organizations have more than 50 percent of workloads virtualized.
Service providers have many uptime guarantees. Which one you choose should be dictated on a workload-by-workload basis.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/01/2015
Get better graphics to your virtual desktop infrastructure users.
InterCloud Systems today launched a new cloud service to provide a lab environment for companies wishing to prove concepts based on modern, emerging software-defined networking and network functions virtualization technologies.
He said most OSes are nothing more than vectors to track users.
Axcient offers full deduplication of data both locally and in the cloud.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 05/27/2015
In this first installment on moving to a hybrid cloud, our fictional company decides on the cloud provider and creates the infrastructure.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 05/22/2015