Cisco this week invested in a Parisian new-generation networking company as part of a broader initiative to bolster French digital businesses, but some see the move as a long-range strategic positioning against SDN/NFV competitors.
Gartner says that any boost will likely come next year.
The move is a drastic reminder of the company's struggles in the smartphone space.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/08/2015
Within four years, predicts IDC, that number will increase to nearly half of all infrastructure spending.
Masergy Communications announced Virtual f(n), an NFV solution that puts networking routing and firewall capabilities entirely into the software realm.
Volume licensing customers can get Windows vNext on August 1.
Just two days after a new release of the OpenDaylight software-defined networking platform, a study came out today saying the nascent technology and its sidekick, network functions virtualization, "could be as significant as the introduction of IP networks themselves."
Pluribus Networks, on a mission to advance software-defined networking, has teamed up with Red Hat and Super Micro Computer to demonstrate a converged infrastructure package.
Microsoft demos a container app that works on both Linux and Windows.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/24/2015
A demo project at this week's Open Networking Summit aims to pave the way for implementing next-generation networking technologies in telecom carriers' central offices, using open standards software and commodity hardware to replace proprietary, fragmented systems.
The company says its new product does not compete with Microsoft's Active Directory.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/17/2015
Along with executives leaving, several product groups will combine.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/17/2015
Proof of concepts are popping up all over the young software-defined networking (SDN) landscape, with the latest being the first large-scale deployment of the Open Networking Operating System in a live nationwide network.
Failing to update within the time frame could mean no future security patches.
Pluribus Networks is putting its Pluribus Open Netvisor Linux OS on the hardware giant's Open Networking switches in a software-defined networking partnership.
It depends on "service-branch" options.
Its just-released Magic Quadrant for enterprise mobility management also places Citrix, MobileIron high.
Things are moving smartly forward in the world of upstart, disruptive networking technologies such as software-defined networking and network functions virtualization, as open source stewards in both camps have come out with new software releases.
Those systems are using energy but doing almost no work.
NEC Corp. today announced two new switches ready for software-defined networking applications in big datacenters run by telecommunications carriers and service providers.