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.
One journalist calls it "the best of several bad options for Windows users."
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/08/2015
Two new datacenters in Canada will bring the global total to 22.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/08/2015
Alcatel-Lucent has teamed up with HP to feature HP Networking technology -- including software-defined networking -- in its cloud datacenter solutions for IP and optical networks.
Bromium isolates tasks in tiny Xen hypervisors, then kills the hypervisor when the task is done.
The open source SDN Open Network Operating System used in conjunction with new-age networking technologies such as software-defined networking is out with a number of updates, including improved performance and more feature sets.
Blue Box and Piston are swallowed up by Cisco and IBM.
New-age technologies such as software-defined networking and network functions virtualization promise all kinds of benefits -- programmability, agility, lower cost and so on -- but have a lot of moving parts that need to be tied together, which paves the way for the flurry of new orchestration solutions hitting the market
It will be free for users of Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 for the first year.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/02/2015