DataStax recently announced that it had been chosen by Google Cloud as one of its Database-as-a-Service offerings, which is part of Google Cloud's "OSS Managed Partner Services Initiative."
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 04/22/2019
Versa Networks is yet another software-defined wide-area network specialist to provide its wares in a cloud-delivered managed service, a growing trend in the industry.
Add Citrix Systems to the growing list of software-defined wide-area network vendors taking their wares to the cloud -- in this case the Google Cloud Platform.
ADARA Networks unveiled a cloud version of its software-defined wide-area network solution, promising to reduce network latency and improve performance via real-time performance monitoring and programmability.
Cisco Systems followed up on its ACI Anywhere initiative announced last January that seeks to extend its software-defined networking technology called Application Centric Infrastructure beyond the datacenter -- in this case to the AWS cloud.
Israeli start-up flexiWAN has emerged from stealth with a software-defined wide-area networking offering that portends the "second wave of SD-WAN," marked by an open architecture in addition to open source software.
Cyber protection and hybrid cloud storage provider Acronis released Acronis Backup 12.5 Update 4 at the beginning of April.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 04/10/2019
This week at Google Cloud Next '19 in San Francisco, Calif., hyper-converged Kubernetes platform provider Robin.io announced its partnership with Google Cloud to bring additional capabilities to Google Cloud Anthos, formerly Google Cloud Services Platform.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 04/10/2019
Juniper Networks announced its SD-WAN solution is now available in a cloud-delivered "as-a-service" offering, with the aim of simplified management of disparate resources.
The Xen Project 4.12 features security and code size improvements, plus x86 architectural renewal.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 04/08/2019
The Open Networking Foundation announced a partnership that boosts software-defined networking in optical transport networks.
Leostream Corp. recently announced an update to its Leostream platform with the release of Leostream Connection Broker 9.0.34. Among a number of upgrades to Leostream 9.0 are also some fixes that resolve known issues.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 04/02/2019
OpenDaylight, said to be the most pervasive open source software-defined networking controller in the industry, is out in its 10th release as it celebrates its six-year anniversary.
Last week Microsoft announced that GA versions of Azure Data Box Edge and Azure Data Box Gateway are now available through the Microsoft Azure Portal.
"Azure in a box" gets hyperconverged infrastructure capabilities with new Azure Stack HCI solutions.
Cisco Systems this month announced new solutions that take its intent-based networking technology to the software-defined wide-area network, promising increased visibility and control for disparate branches.
Support for using the Kubernetes open source container orchestration system to wrangle Windows containers has been graduated from beta and is now a baked-in production-level feature of Kubernetes 1.4, out today as the first release of the year.
The benefits of software-defined wide-area networks typically start with cost savings, but Infovista says it's focusing on a neglected aspect of the next-gen SD-WAN transformation: the quality of application experiences.
Big Switch Networks is the latest industry player to showcase new-age networking wares based on integration with the Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) project.
F5 Networks Inc. announced Monday (March 11) that it will acquire privately held NGINX Inc. for a total of $670 million.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 03/15/2019