Cisco is seeking to integrate more security into its offering for the exploding SD-WAN space with a multi-prong effort based on new hardware and software initiatives.
Teridion claims to further tip the balance in favor of the software-defined approach with its new enterprise offering that it says is the industry's first cloud-based WAN service to match the reliability and performance of legacy WAN technologies.
Networking industry association MEF is officially defining what makes up a software-defined wide-area-network, one of the most popular areas of the transformative shift from hardware-based to software-based networking.
Big Blue aims to become No. 1 hybrid cloud provider.
- By John K. Waters
- 10/29/2018
Organizations rolling out software-defined wide-area network solutions report increased network security is the main achievement of such deployments, according to survey results just published by Barracuda Networks.
oday at NetApp Insight, which takes place this week from Oct. 22-24 in Las Vegas, NetApp announced a handful of new cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions for data-driven enterprises.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 10/23/2018
The solution lets organizations connect their branch networks to the Azure cloud with SD-WAN and Virtual Private Network devices, enjoying automatic connectivity and configuration management.
Start-up Kaloom Inc. announced an automated, programmable networking fabric that leverages white-box hardware and containers to virtualize the datacenter.
Amdocs has teamed up with Fortinet and Versa Networks to offer a new multi-domain, service provider SD-WAN, software-defined networking and network functions virtualization orchestration solution.
This week at the GPU Technology Conference in Munich, Germany, NVIDIA announced new capabilities to its Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation (Quadro vDWS).
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 10/10/2018
Netcracker Technology is leveraging software-defined networking and network functions virtualization to offer a full-stack package for delivering turnkey cloud applications and virtual network services.
Microsoft said that the Facebook hack last month that potentially exposed the access tokens of about 50 million Facebook users did not affect Microsoft's Azure Active Directory B2C service.
This week Palo Alto Networks announced its plans to acquire cloud security provider RedLock Inc.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 10/05/2018
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