Two more major networking players have signed an agreement to combine two promising, game-changing technologies: 5G wireless and software-defined wide-area-networking (SD-WAN).
With 5G mobile networks just coming online in the U.S., forerunner AT&T is already pairing the game-changing technology with another transformative technology, software-defined wide-area-networks (SD-WAN).
VMware's vCloud NFV platform, featuring new-age network functions virtualization, is the centerpiece of a new partnership with Ericsson formed to simplify network virtualization for Communication Service Providers.
DigitalOcean launches Managed Databases service for developers.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 02/14/2019
Dell EMC is the latest networking vendor to point to SD-WAN as the future for the evolution of the open networking movement, which emphasizes disaggregated, modular, software-centric systems over closed, proprietary, hardware-based legacy implementations.
Platform9 introduced a new managed Kubernetes service to run on VMware systems in order to reduce the complexity of wedding the hot container orchestration technology with the leading virtualization software.
Kubernetes, getting more popular by the minute for its container orchestration expertise, now has its own integrated development environment thanks to open source champion Red Hat.
This week VMware Inc. announced its intent to acquire remote support solution provider AetherPal.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 02/07/2019
In a move to appease its certification community, this week VMware Inc. announced it will no longer require mandatory recertification every two years for VMware Certified Professionals, effective immediately.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 02/05/2019
As the fast-growing software-defined wide-area networking space shakes itself out, industry players are maneuvering to cash in on enterprise market opportunities with a series of partnerships.
A new survey from IHS Markit illustrates the maturation of the game-changing software-defined networking approach, which reportedly will be adopted by all respondents and is already used by 78 percent of global service providers.
Today OpsRamp Inc. announced the Winter Release of its artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform of the same name.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 01/31/2019
A new "ACI Anywhere" initiative from Cisco seeks to extend the reach of its ACI solution, born in the early stages of the software-defined networking transformation and subsequently pivoted to provide "intent-based networking."
Cisco company AppDynamics unveiled a new monitoring solution for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, the networking giant's initiative in the game-changing software-defined networking space.
Cisco has released software updates to fix a vulnerability in its software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) solution, a fast-growing segment of the software-centric networking transformation.
This week, Microsoft announced that its Azure DevOps Server 2019 entered into the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) stage.
The open source Faucet project -- a high-speed controller for software-defined networking implementations -- is getting some attention this week at the 2019 linux.conf.au event in New Zealand.
NetEnrich's 2019 Cloud Adoption survey results show high cloud adoption and growth in 2019.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 01/17/2019
Networking giant Cisco Systems sees software-defined wide-area networking among the technologies that will change the networking space in 2019.
Research firm Gartner Inc. published a new report on cloud management platforms, listing Flexera (RightScale), Scalr, Embotics and Morpheus Data in the "leaders" category.