AT&T, one of the leading companies furthering software-defined networking and other modern networking technologies, said its SD-WAN offering is becoming available in more than 150 countries around the world.
Software-defined networking's move into the wireless arena is exemplified by Verizon's debut of its Software Defined Wireless Local Area Network (SD WLAN).
RightScale says Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform is chasing undisputed leader Amazon Web Services in the race for enterprise market and mind share.
In a move widely seen as a direct challenge to current cloud-infrastructure leaders Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), Google Inc. and Microsoft, Oracle Corp. announced plans this week to quadruple its current datacenter operations across Asia, Europe and the Americas.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/20/2018
The Apache Software Foundation today announced CloudStack v4.11, the newest version of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform for enterprise cloud orchestration.
This week virtualization-based application security provider Waratek announced the release of the newest addition to its Runtime Application Security Platform, Waratek Patch.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 02/06/2018
AT&T, one of the companies at the forefront of the modern software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) movements, said it will open source a homegrown project that champions the use of white-box hardware in such new-age installations.
VMware has taken the wraps off a new appliance that lets users of its vSphere cloud computing virtualization platform perform analytics, serverless computing and even machine learning on Internet of Things edge devices via the AWS Greengrass service.
Microsoft's relentless focus on transitioning to the cloud have resulted in strong financial results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2018.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/02/2018
Red Hat Inc. this week announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform and container-native solutions provider CoreOS for the reported purchase price of $250 million.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 01/31/2018
VMware Inc. announced the 1.3 version release of its enterprise container infrastructure technology, vSphere Integrated Containers.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 01/30/2018
The Linux Foundation, said to host nine of the top 10 open source networking projects, is seeking to foster collaboration among those disparate offerings with a new "administrative structure" called the LF Networking Fund.
The Cloud IP Platform from Versa Networks can help organizations implement SD-WANs on the Amazon Web Services cloud, according to research commissioned by the cloud giant.
According to several news reports, it appears there might be a reverse merger of Dell and VMware.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 01/29/2018
In its "Most Promising Jobs 2018" report published in mid-January, LinkedIn includes a list of the most in-demand skills, with Cloud and Distributed Computing landing at the top.
Verizon joined the Open Network Automation Platform, under the direction of The Linux Foundation, to boost industry efforts around software-defined networking and network functions virtualization.
The all-cash deal valued at $42.5 million is the first acquisition for the company in almost a decade.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 01/18/2018
Cartesian says network virtualization efforts led by software-defined networking and network functions virtualization haven't lived up to their hype, hampered by a skills shortage, organizational/operational problems, multi-vendor integration issues and more.
Available for use with both Linux- and Windows-based VMs, Microsoft's Accelerated Networking technology for Azure virtual machines is now generally available.
Veeam Software today announced record-breaking revenue growth in total bookings for 2017, plus other increased numbers, putting the decade-old virtualization innovator on the path to becoming a billion-dollar company in 2018.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 01/09/2018