Software-defined networking project sees growth in contributors, sponsoring members and commercial products.
Mobile device management is among the AWOL options.
Better security, device support and faster deployments listed as top benefits.
Microsoft calls it a new era of "more personal computing."
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/29/2015
His seat on the board of directors will be given to an activist investor.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/29/2015
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation is led by a Docker engineer.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/24/2015
Research firm Gartner Inc. won't be publishing any "Magic Quadrant" reports for software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies, "because SDN and NFV aren't markets."
License income experiences strong rise as well.
Falling Windows sales also contributed to the decline.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/22/2015
Citrix, Oracle, Red Hat and others are "Niche Players," according to the report.
It will offer round-the-clock support for new or existing Azure deployments.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 07/20/2015
Redmond will add installation and configuration help for various Linux distributions.
Microsoft pitches it as a "unified solution for workload-aware disaster recovery."
A report claims that new law enforcement policies are making things less secure.
Cisco this week invested in a Parisian new-generation networking company as part of a broader initiative to bolster French digital businesses, but some see the move as a long-range strategic positioning against SDN/NFV competitors.
Gartner says that any boost will likely come next year.
The move is a drastic reminder of the company's struggles in the smartphone space.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/08/2015
Within four years, predicts IDC, that number will increase to nearly half of all infrastructure spending.
Masergy Communications announced Virtual f(n), an NFV solution that puts networking routing and firewall capabilities entirely into the software realm.
Volume licensing customers can get Windows vNext on August 1.