With software-defined networking and network functions virtualization steadily gaining traction in the new-age networking space, industry association MEF has announced a new certification program to prove expertise in those areas.
By updating its SD-WAN offering, Juniper Networks said it has taken another incremental step to help organizations reach multicloud nirvana: managing disparate networks as one cohesive set of resources.
This week VMware Inc. and Pivotal Software Inc. announced the general availability of the next iteration of their Pivotal Container Service (PKS).
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 06/29/2018
Key announcements about Storage Spaces Direct and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) in Windows Server 2019 from the Windows Server Summit.
Kubernetes, a rising star in the open source ecosystem for containers, has improved its orchestration capabilities on a number of fronts in its latest release, version 1.11
Microsoft this week shipped Azure IoT Edge -- its cloud-based solution for bringing local intelligence to distributed Internet of Things devices -- while making it open source.
Public beta of VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE) released.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 06/26/2018
The Open Networking Foundation unveiled reference designs to help service providers and operators leverage software-defined networking and network functions virtualization in their modern networks.
New research from Dell'Oro Group indicates next-generation 5G wireless technology is boosting the use of NFV.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 06/19/2018
The Linux Foundation announced the second software release from the Open Network Automation Platform project, a unified platform for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation
VMware announced vCloud NFV-OpenStack Edition 3.0, with new network functions virtualization features purpose-built for communications service providers running modern 5G and multi-cloud networks.
Now available in 10 Azure regions, yesterday Microsoft announced the general availability of its Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Last week, multi-domain master data management (MDM) and product information management (PIM) solution provider <a href="http://www.enterworks.com" target="_blank">EnterWorks</a> announced the release of its Enable Agile Data Fabric (ADF) framework.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 06/12/2018
Kubernetes is increasingly becoming the tool of choice for container orchestration, to the point where Microsoft has announced a Kubernetes tool for use in its flagship IDE, Visual Studio.
More communications firms are coming onboard with the open source networking organization launched earlier this year by The Linux Foundation.
Communications firm BT has tapped Cisco technology to power a new global SD-WAN managed service designed to optimize network traffic with a software-defined overlay.
OpsRamp on Thursday announced the release of OpsRamp 5.0, its flagship software as a service (SaaS) platform for multi-cloud environments.
Scalr announced it will be expanding its Hybrid Cloud Management Platform (CMP) with advanced capabilities.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 06/06/2018
The Linux Foundation will offer a free course serving as an introduction to modern, open source networking technologies including software-defined networking, network functions virtualization, disaggregation, orchestration, network automation and more.