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MEF Finalizes SD-WAN Definition Standard

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.

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Open Source flexiWAN SD-WAN Software Beta Ships

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 Announces Update To VMware HCX Enterprise

VMware Inc. recently updated its enterprise application mobility platform.

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Masergy Updates SD-WAN Portal

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.

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Microsoft and Cisco Collaborate To Make Containerized Apps Easier

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."

PacketFabric and Pureport Enter into Partnership to Simplify Cloud Connectivity

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.

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Broadcom's NVMe-oF Storage Adapter to Provide OS Independence for Legacy Servers

Today Broadcom Inc. announced the availability of Glass Creek, its new NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) storage adapter.

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IBM To Offer Cloud-Native Software on Red Hat OpenShift

IBM Corp. today announced that it has reengineered its software portfolio to now be "cloud-native and optimized to run on Red Hat OpenShift."

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Alpha Release of Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server Now Available

At the end of July the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) team announced Cloud SQL for Microsoft SQL Server available in alpha.

Capsule8 'Investigations' To Provide More Proactive Prevention for Linux-Based Environments

Capsule8 today announced new "full endpoint detection and response (EDR)-like investigations functionality for cloud workloads" for Capsule8 Protect.

Western Digital's ActiveScale 5.5 Streamlines Workflows, More

Western Digital Corp. (WDC) announced key enhancements to its ActiveScale cloud object storage family.

Google Cloud and VMware Enter into New Partnership

This week Google announced its Google Cloud Platform (GCP) would begin to support VMware workloads.

VMware Aims To Advance Telco Portfolio with Uhana Acquisition

Last week VMware Inc. announced its intent to acquire AI/ML startup Uhana.

SD-WAN Research Shows Cisco Domination

A new report on the software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) space shows Cisco dominates the growing infrastructure market.

News Roundup 07-24-19: Canonical, ReactorWorks, NAKIVO, More

News from Canonical, ReactorWorks, NAKIVO, VMware, Storware, StoreONE and Microsoft/AT&T.

Prometheus Data in Azure Monitor for Containers Previewed by Microsoft

Users can obtain both the "deeper telemetry" metrics Prometheus provides and the "out of the box" information obtained using Azure Monitor for Containers on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)-managed clusters.

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VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Bitfusion

VMware looks to bolster its support of AI- and ML-enabled workloads by virtualizing hardware accelerators with the acquisition of Bitfusion.

Survey: Growing SD-WAN Adoption Slowed by Cost Concerns, Skills Gap

Although the software-defined wide-area network movement has taken the point position in the penetration of new-age, software-defined networking (SDN) into the enterprise, it has been slowed by cost concerns and a skills gap, says a new study.

FIDO2-Based 'Passwordless Sign-In' Support in Azure AD Now in Preview

Last week Microsoft announced the availability of a public preview of Azure Active Directory's FAST Identity Online 2.0 (FIDO2) support, which enables user authentications without passwords.

Enhanced Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Light Agent Now Available

Last week, cybersecurity provider Kaspersky announced the release of a new and enhanced version of its hybrid cloud security solution, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Light Agent.

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