Cisco updated its SDN platform, Application Centric Infrastructure, adding support for Docker container technology, tighter security and more.
The move means Microsoft will keep the Linux OS updated on its platform.
Linux containers are supported now, with Windows Server Containers coming.
They were part of Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/20/2015
As part of the deal, Google also agrees to buy her cloud startup, bebop.
The company announces a new "Universal Control Plane."
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/19/2015
About 1,000 employees will be let go in latest round of restructuring.
They see more innovation and stability, among other benefits.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/19/2015
ScaleOut says its software can do more with its "in-memory data grids."
The first major update of the OS focuses on enterprise enhancements.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/16/2015
The Telecommunications Industry Association said it will create a vendor-neutral lab to test network functions virtualization interoperability.
The two infrastructure titans announce a joint Azure partnership.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/09/2015
Following the software-defined networking tenet of disaggregating hardware from software, Juniper Networks has done the same with its own offerings while also expanding its network functions virtualization portfolio in yet another nod to the disruptive new-age networking movement.
Midokura's software-defined networking virtualization technology now supports the latest OpenStack release, Liberty, and the Kuryr project for container networking.
Microsoft also announces Big Data analytics upgrades.
Its first-quarter report for FY 2016 is much stronger than predicted.
As if to point the way for enterprises moving to an emerging and evolving -- and sometimes confusing -- new world of networking virtualization, global communications company CenturyLink issued an update outlining its progress in moving toward the network of tomorrow.
It's a new feature for Hyper-V.
A research project has unveiled a full IDE for creating applications using software-defined networking, seeking to help developers deal with the variety of competing controllers being used in the upstart virtualization technology.
Boxer, a consumer-focused company, will be incorporated into AirWatch, its enterprise mobility manager.