One is an open source community release aimed at service providers, one is a proprietary solution that also targets enterprise deployments, but both serve to show the fast-paced growth of new-age SDN and NFV technologies.
Office, SharePoint and Exchange are among the offerings that could be affected.
VMware has the lion's share of the market, according to a 451 Research survey.
The change in update patterns may be due to the need to support power requirements for future Windows 10 devices.
The OPNFV Project has come out with its second platform release in its continuing effort to accelerate the introduction of new network functions virtualization (NFV) products and services, now dubbing the technology as being "lab ready."
Up to 64TB of cloud-based data can be managed.
Creating "dynamically provisioned perimeters" for clouds and datacenter infrastructures.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/04/2016
Carl Eschenbach is leaving to join a venture capital firm.
The OpenDaylight Project cited the growth and diversification of its software-defined networking platform as it issued a new release, Beryllium.
IDC predicts 4 percent growth; enterprise growth expected to be 7 percent.
Numerous challenges still remain, however.
ContainerX sets its sights on general availability in May.
NEC Corp. will add Juniper Networks' network functions virtualization (NFV) software and hardware to its cloud infrastructure offerings in an expansion of their partnership targeting enterprises and service providers, according to an announcement today.
Among other changes, the update includes multifactor authentication.
Integration with Workspace ONE, NSX highlight the release.
Deduplication and compression is the star of the release.
It's part of the company's week-long focus on end-user computing.
It allows end users to use any application on any device, whether corporate or BYOD.
With a brand-new study today projecting huge growth for the SDN industry, another report published yesterday indicates some of that growth is coming at the expense of virtual local-area networks.
Shortly after receiving new venture capital funding, Big Switch Networks is seemingly sharing some of its newfound largesse with the first-ever "freemium" edition of its software-defined networking products to help enterprises get started with the disruptive technology.