The two infrastructure titans announce a joint Azure partnership.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 11/09/2015
Following the software-defined networking tenet of disaggregating hardware from software, Juniper Networks has done the same with its own offerings while also expanding its network functions virtualization portfolio in yet another nod to the disruptive new-age networking movement.
Midokura's software-defined networking virtualization technology now supports the latest OpenStack release, Liberty, and the Kuryr project for container networking.
Microsoft also announces Big Data analytics upgrades.
Its first-quarter report for FY 2016 is much stronger than predicted.
As if to point the way for enterprises moving to an emerging and evolving -- and sometimes confusing -- new world of networking virtualization, global communications company CenturyLink issued an update outlining its progress in moving toward the network of tomorrow.
It's a new feature for Hyper-V.
A research project has unveiled a full IDE for creating applications using software-defined networking, seeking to help developers deal with the variety of competing controllers being used in the upstart virtualization technology.
Boxer, a consumer-focused company, will be incorporated into AirWatch, its enterprise mobility manager.
The Open Networking Foundation furthered its vendor-neutral skills certification program for software-defined networking, announcing the availability of beta examinations.
What VMware's future would be in that scenario is cloudy.
The security flaws affect both vCenter Server and ESXi.
Riverbed Technology said a survey taken at the recent VMworld conference pointed to strong interest in software-defined networking and identified software-defined wide-area-networking as the "next wave of network innovation for remote and branch office locations."
Microsoft says it will make it easier to create and manage clusters of Docker hosts.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 10/01/2015
A Web event detailed the coming attractions.
Beyond mere software-defined networking, the future of the enterprise datacenter itself will be defined by total infrastructure virtualization, research firm Gartner Inc. said today. But for now, only advanced companies with the prerequisite vision and expertise should try to get a jump on that future.
VMware's enterprise mobility management suite will integrate with Azure Active Directory.
The VDI product never took off in the enterprise.
It's true, says Microsoft; the Azure Cloud Switch is a Linux product.
The service already has more than 200,000 images.