Remember VNFs, which seemingly only just arrived along with other disruptive, next-gen networking advances like software-defined networking to shake up the once-staid networking space? Now they're already moving on, going cloud-native in containers.
The Linux Foundation published results of an industry survey that revealed strong confidence among communication services providers in open source networking, and software-defined networking in particular.
New security enhancements from RedLock for Microsoft Azure users include automated remediation, holistic threat defense, advanced user behavioral analytics and comprehensive compliance.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 09/26/2018
Established software-defined wide-area-network (SD-WAN) vendor Versa Networks is teaming up with software-defined core network (SD-CORE) startup Mode for a new take on enterprise networking.
Today VMware Inc. announced the availability of the newest versions of its virtual platforms VMware Workstation 15 and VMware Fusion 11.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 09/25/2018
Nuage Networks claimed several industry "firsts" in announcing an update to its Virtualized Network Services platform, which it characterizes as an SD-WAN 2.0 offering.
Azure Data Box is now generally available, with new Data Box Edge and Data Box Gateway offerings in preview.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 09/24/2018
Antimalware Scan Interface now integrated with Office 365 ProPlus
Talari Networks announced a new offering targeting the growing software-defined wide-area-network space, highlighting connectivity to multiple cloud services.
The ninth release of the OpenDaylight software-defined networking and network functions virtualization platform is out, adding new functionality and marking adoption gains.
VMware Inc. quietly released NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.3 yesterday.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 09/12/2018
A new initiative backed by several industry heavyweights aims to reimagine existing data architectures with a hybrid focus, providing a unified architecture for on-premises, multi-cloud and edge environments.
Network analytics firm Kentik recently published a study on network management, finding that firms are struggling to keep pace with new developments in the industry.
Last week VMware Inc. recalled VMware Tools 10.3.0 due to a "functional issue with 10.3.0 in ESXi 6.5."
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 09/10/2018
The company is featuring software-defined networking functionality front and center in a 10-part blog series about the top networking features in its upcoming flagship server OS release.
Dell announces new Internet of Things (IoT) offerings that include more automation and intelligence
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 08/30/2018
Announcements at this week's VMworld conference in Las Vegas can be seen as a microcosm snapshot of the general industry trend away from hardware-centric solutions to the software-defined, a sweet spot for VMware's virtualization offerings.
This week at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, endpoint print management provider ThinPrint Inc. announced its Endpoint Print Management initiative, which is aimed at filling "the hole left by unified endpoint management systems."
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 08/29/2018
This week at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) debuted its Radeon Pro V340 graphics card.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 08/29/2018
After a bevy of announcements during day one of its VMworld conference that featured edge and IoT technologies, VMware today unveiled new offerings as part of its effort to extend its hybrid and multi-cloud environments to the edge.