Since its inception, the bailiwick of the disruptive software-defined networking movement has expanded to all sorts of use cases, with network connectivity now joining the crowd, offered by the firm Stateless Inc.
In a move targeting enterprise hybrid cloud customers, Oracle and VMware are teaming up to enable organizations to run VMware Cloud Foundation on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
A new partnership in the burgeoning software-defined networking space sees NEC Corp. wedding its software-defined network-based unified communication offering with Infovista's Ipanema (software-defined wide-area network.
Cybersecurity specialist Illumio boosted its flagship platform with new functionality addressing containerized workloads.
The ONF says Stratum is an open source, silicon-independent switch operating system for software-defined networks that runs on a variety of switching silicon and various whitebox switch platforms.
After an uneven start, the software-defined networking movement has matured and evolved to include fast-growing initiatives such as software-defined wide-area-networking (SD-WAN) and the security-oriented Software Defined Perimeter.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company unveiled four new products and a service in connection with the VMworld 2019 conference held late last month.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/09/2019
Untangle Inc. published a study on IT security in small and medium-size businesses, concluding that cloud-based services and the increasing number of branch office networks are promoting the rise of software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN).
Dell Technologies has unveiled new offerings in the software-defined wide-area-networking space, incorporating hardware from Dell EMC and VMware-based software.
VMware is adding support for Microsoft's Hyper-V to its Workstation product, allowing it to tap other Microsoft technologies that depend on the Windows hypervisor.
VMware already has extensive plans for repurposing Carbon Black's technology to improve security in vSphere, Workspace ONE, NSX and other products over the next few years.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/27/2019
All the best new product names and code names spoken during the VMworld kickoff keynote had to do with Kubernetes.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/26/2019
Ahead of this week's VMworld conference, telecommunications provider CenturyLink pre-emptively announced some VMware news of its own with the unveiling of an upcoming VMware-based private cloud service on the Amazon Web Services.
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger described plans to expand the VMware-Microsoft cloud offering during his VMworld 2019 keynote on Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/26/2019
Industry association MEF has completed what it claims to be the first global standard defining a software-defined wide-area network, along with its service attributes.
Israeli start-up flexiWAN announced a beta version of its open source, open architecture software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) software is available for download.
VMware Inc. recently updated its enterprise application mobility platform.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 08/12/2019
Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it's collaborating with Microsoft "to make it easier for customers to rapidly -- and at scale -- deploy and run containerized applications across both Cisco-based on-premises environments and Microsoft Azure."
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 08/09/2019
Software-defined networking specialist Masergy updated its portal for managing software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) applications.
Today multicloud networking provider Pureport and PacketFabric, a Network-as-a-Service platform provider, announced a partnership that will enable enterprises to use PacketFabric datacenters to access Pureport's Multicloud Fabric platform.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 08/07/2019