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VMware Incorporates New Docker Security Guidelines

A just-released benchmark lists 84 recommendations for securing Docker containers.

Microsoft Tries To 'Ignite' the Public with Its Vision

A three-hour keynote touched on a bit of everything, including Microsoft Azure, Windows and security.

Ciena To Buy Cyan for SDN, NFV Technology

Ciena Corp. is the latest networking vendor to eschew the homegrown route and buy its new-age technology outright, this time in the form of a $400 million acquisition of Cyan Inc.

Nano Server Featured in Windows Server 2016 Preview 2

Simplified upgrades is another feature, including rolling upgrades for Hyper-V.

Cisco CEO John Chambers To Step Down This Summer

Taking his place will be Chuck Robbins, senior V.P. of worldwide operations.

Microsoft: Nano Server Is Most Significant Change Since Windows NT

It's cloud optimized, and 20 times smaller than Server Core.

InterCloud Orchestrates Network Functions Virtualization

Next-generation networking company InterCloud Systems Inc. launched a new platform to orchestrate NFV technologies.

OpenStack Releases Next Version, known as 'Kilo'

Its main new features revolve around greater scalability.

Skype Integration Heads Extreme Networks SDN Enhancements

Extreme Networks this week announced enhancements to its software-defined networking portfolio, including integration with Skype for Business.

Cisco Adding Threat Detection to ACI

Cisco Systems Inc. will add threat detection to its Application Centric Infrastructure, the company's alternative to the new software-defined networking movement.

Microsoft Wants Windows 10 on 1 Billion Devices

The key to that future is Universal Windows apps.

Should Amazon Web Services Become a Separate Company?

AWS is worth between $48 billion - $69 billion, according to some estimates.

Verizon Switching to Software-Defined Networking

Telecommunications giant Verizon announced today it's evolving its network by implementing a new software-defined networking (SDN) architecture.

HP Offers SDN for Mobile-Ready Workplaces

HP unveiled hardware and software to bring the benefits of software-defined networking (SDN) to campus systems supporting the demands of mobile-ready workplaces.

Latest Windows 10 Build Adds New Features -- and Bugs

Microsoft is also ramping up for big events, like Build and Ignite.

The Cloud Now Accounts for One-Third of Total IT Infrastructure Spending

The ubquitious cloud continues to conquer the datacenter, now accounting for one-third of all IT infrastructure spending, according to new research from IDC.

Freescale Adds White-Box Switching Platform for SDN

For today's increasingly virtualized networks, Freescale Semiconductor announced a network services switching platform to meld the benefits of traditional hardware with the advantages afforded by new-age technologies such as software-defined networking.

New Ethernet Switches Fill Out Avaya SDN Offering

Two months after Avaya Inc. introduced its software-defined networking (SDN) architecture, the company is adding new Ethernet switches to fill out the offering.

VMware Earnings Up 11 Percent in Q1 2015

CEO Pat Gelsinger called the results "solid."

VMware Launches Two Open Source Container Projects

Called Project Photon and Project Lightwave, they provide an infrastructure and security model for containers in the cloud.

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