It's official: Dell today completed its $67 billion acquisition of storage giant EMC and its controlling interest in VMware.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/07/2016
The deal will close on Sept. 7
EUC, SDN, Cloud-Native Apps Take Center Stage
VMware's Pat Gelsinger recounts episode of support from Dell.
Cloud Foundation, Cross-Cloud Services are featured.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/29/2016
Italian researchers published a paper highlighting a security vulnerability in software-defined networking that isn't intrinsic to legacy networks.
As part of the announcement, Microsoft said that the Azure RemoteApp service is being killed.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/12/2016
Microsoft denies reports of vulnerability, but says Windows RT devices could be affected.
A steadily growing product line necessitated the changes.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/02/2016
Two new studies document the software-defined transformation.
It didn't take long for Verizon to follow AT&T into the virtualized network services market, launching its own offering just days after the fellow telecommunications giant introduced a similar service.
Resin.io believes containers can promote rapid development.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 07/27/2016
Open source groups focusing on software-defined networking and network functions virtualization have formed a new project, attracting new partners such as Google, Radisys and Samsung.
A joint effort among open software-defined networking organizations has resulted in a new leaf-spine datacenter fabric leveraging commodity white-box hardware and open source technologies.
Continuing its support of new transformative technologies such as software-defined networking and network functions virtualization, AT&T launched a new service, Network Functions on Demand.
The programs are aimed at a high-level technical audience.
Current Analysis published new research on network functions virtualization -- "the most important transformation that the network industry has undertaken in its history" -- that names Netcracker Technology as the "leader" in NFV Management and Orchestration.
AT&T will open source the homegrown software platform powering its software-centric network that leverages SDN and NFV in the hope it will mature the fledgling technologies and become an industry standard.
In another finding, vSphere continues to be the most-used hypervisor, followed by Hyper-V.
Glue Networks upgraded its software-defined networking orchestration platform, designed for organizations wishing to automate entire, existing multi-vendor networking architectures, from the datacenter to the LAN to the WAN.