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
Huawei is making heavy use of software-defined networking technologies in several products announced this week at its annual conference, including a new cloud fabric architecture and an Internet of Things (IoT) solution.
Its Magic Quadrant report says AWS has a "multiyear" advantage over Microsoft and Google clouds.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/21/2015
Global communications company Alcatel-Lucent today unveiled what it claims to be the first unified software-defined networking platform for the service provider industry.
Workspace Cloud gets its first public demonstration, at its Synergy conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/20/2015
The newest version of VMware's flagship promises easier virtual HDD conversions. James puts that promise to the test.
Software-defined networking company Nuage Networks continued to make moves to further its positioning in the open networking arena, forming partnerships and increasing its new-age networking portfolio.
With the goal of simplifying deployment of new-age networking technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV), PLUMgrid Inc. and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. have teamed up to tackle OpenStack automation.
They're cheap, but can be shut down without warning, and are automatically terminated after 24 hours.