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VMware To Buy Software-Defined Networking Vendor

Arkin helps speed SDN deployments and operations.

LinkedIn Bought by Microsoft for $26.2 Billion

Microsoft says the social networking giant will remain independent.

VMware AirWatch Named the Leader in Magic Quadrant for EMM

Citrix, BlackBerry, IBM and MobileIron also score high.

Investors Make New $20 Million Bet on Midokura SDN

Midokura, which leverages software-defined networking technology in its network virtualization offering, this week announced $20.4 million in Series B financing.

Firms Partner on SDN, NFV Innovation Lab

New-generation software company CENX -- a software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) specialist -- announced it's partnering with several other companies to show how vendor interoperability can contribute to end-to-end service management capabilities on hybrid network infrastructure.

VMware Unveils New Version of Integrated OpenStack Product

Deeper integration with vSphere, smaller management footprint highlight the upgrades.

WinDocks Comes to the Amazon Cloud

The container technology is a port of the Docker engine to facilitate Windows Server 2012 development.

PLUMgrid SDN Suite Works with Red Hat OpenStack

Players in the emerging software-defined networking arena are continuing on the path to interoperability as the industry shakes itself out, with PLUMgrid Inc. announcing its SDN suite is certified for the Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.

Optus Wholesales SDN Cloud Service

Optus Wholesale has put a new spin on the growing software-defined networking movement by introducing Optus Cloud-N, a pay-as-you-go service that customers can purchase, rebrand and resell to retail end users.

SQL Server 2016 Released by Microsoft

It includes open source software as a major component.

Ciena Toolkit Applies DevOps To Control SDN/NFV Networks

Ciena aims to give operators more control of their software-defined networking and network functions virtualization systems with a new toolkit that applies DevOps techniques to simplify the process of adding new technologies and services.

Azure AD Certificate Rollovers Get Delayed

Microsoft was told by businesses that more time was needed to prepare for the rollover.

Dell Unveils New Flash Storage Arrays

The new arrays have increased support for VMware environments.

Bandwidth Hogs Drive SDN Adoption, Study Says

The IoT is adding to the heavy toll of video data.

Active Directory Authentication Added to Azure SQL

It lets admins manage database user IDs from one place.

VMware Drops Desktop Client for Next Version of vSphere

The HTML5 version, available as a "Fling," replaces the Flash client.

Gartner: Server Virtualization Reaches Saturation Point

Companies have more options for x86 server workloads than ever, including containers and cloud computing.

Protecting Virtual Machines Is the Goal of Microsoft's 'Shielded VMs'

They're created in a Windows Azure Pack.

VMware CEO Gelsinger Emphatically Denies Report of His Departure

He tells a conference that the story has no merit or substance.

Report: VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger Stepping Down After Dell/EMC Merger

The report has been denied by VMware and EMC, and allegedly by Gelsinger himself.

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