Recently besieged by competitors in a series of recent surveys that indicate strong challenges to its longstanding cloud supremacy, Amazon Web Services nevertheless was recently ranked by Forrester Research Inc. as the top public cloud platform for software development.
Cisco enhanced its portfolio of services provider solutions with increased programmability and virtualization features, furthering its application-centric vision of new-age networking highlighted by new technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN).
Google Inc. challenged established cloud services leader Amazon Web Services Inc. with last week's introduction of a beta Nearline Storage service for housing data that needs to be kept by enterprises but is infrequently accessed.
Juniper Networks expanded its software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities with new silicon, switches and software.
A new survey shows that many executives still prefer only what they know.
The latest revision has more than 650 upgrades.
Several software-defined networking-flavored projects were announced at this week's Open Compute Project summit, while Telco Systems became the latest vendor to propose an initiative to bring more structure to the growing SDN and network functions virtualization industry.
The company gets a new round of cash, raising its value to more than $1 billion.
Improvements to the HP Helion Eucalyptus solution for creating private clouds compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) highlighted recent updates to Hewett Packard's Helion cloud ecosystem tools.
A new Microsoft partner, Sphere 3D, is making containers that have fewer dependencies than Docker.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/10/2015
For a mobile conference, there was a lot of software-defined networking and network functions virtualization buzz at the recent Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona as mobile service providers are at the vanguard of an industry gearing up for the era of new-age networking.
The company calls the reversal a "sudden" decision due to several factors, including test center snafus.
SocketPlane, which took off just three months ago, will add six SDN experts to the Docker roll.
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) comes out on or near the top of most cloud usage surveys, but a recent report indicates growth is slowing down for the perennial cloud services frontrunner.
New hybrid technologies are the latest addition to the Big Blue growing portfolio.
Oracle added to its software-defined networking (SDN) portfolio with today's unveiling of new Ethernet switches and virtual network services.
Public clouds, on the other hand, made significant gains in the RightScale poll.
Avaya Inc. today unveiled a new software-defined networking (SDN) architecture, building on its fabric-based networking technologies.
Public clouds also outpaced private cloud usage in the informal, limited survey.
Reflecting an industry migration away from proprietary, locked-in networking solutions, Hewlett-Packard Co. will add to the ever-expanding universe of open, white box components, a key part of the new era of software-defined networking and network functions virtualization.