One thing common to all three "leaders" named in Gartner's July datacenter networking research report is that they all offer software-defined networking.
IBN pioneer Apstra has offered up a taxonomy and maturity model for the young, game-changing technology, described by many as the next big thing in the networking industry.
With NFV and SDN maturing, evolving and branching out into new industries, a new open source offering has emerged targeting the cable operator space with the help of Kubernetes.
Big Switch Networks is taking "as-a-Service" virtual networking functionality available in public cloud platforms to on-premises implementations.
This week Microsoft announced that it has added a graphical code editor (in preview) to its Azure Cloud Shell developer tools.
Google Inc. and VMware Inc. announced a preview version of a plug-in for VMware vRealize Orchestrator.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 07/19/2018
A report that Amazon Web Services is considering entering the enterprise networking market sent incumbent stock prices lower and is roiling the industry.
The software-defined networking movement continues to expand, with software-defined branches being among the latest offshoots of the new-age networking approach.
With software-defined networking and network functions virtualization steadily gaining traction in the new-age networking space, industry association MEF has announced a new certification program to prove expertise in those areas.
This week VMware Inc. and Pivotal Software Inc. announced the general availability of the next iteration of their Pivotal Container Service (PKS).
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 06/29/2018
Key announcements about Storage Spaces Direct and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) in Windows Server 2019 from the Windows Server Summit.
By updating its SD-WAN offering, Juniper Networks said it has taken another incremental step to help organizations reach multicloud nirvana: managing disparate networks as one cohesive set of resources.
Kubernetes, a rising star in the open source ecosystem for containers, has improved its orchestration capabilities on a number of fronts in its latest release, version 1.11
Microsoft this week shipped Azure IoT Edge -- its cloud-based solution for bringing local intelligence to distributed Internet of Things devices -- while making it open source.
Public beta of VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE) released.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 06/26/2018
New research from Dell'Oro Group indicates next-generation 5G wireless technology is boosting the use of NFV.
The Open Networking Foundation unveiled reference designs to help service providers and operators leverage software-defined networking and network functions virtualization in their modern networks.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 06/19/2018
The Linux Foundation announced the second software release from the Open Network Automation Platform project, a unified platform for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation
VMware announced vCloud NFV-OpenStack Edition 3.0, with new network functions virtualization features purpose-built for communications service providers running modern 5G and multi-cloud networks.