Virtualization


New Software-Defined Fabric Leverages White-Box Hardware, Containers

Start-up Kaloom Inc. announced an automated, programmable networking fabric that leverages white-box hardware and containers to virtualize the datacenter.

Installing Ubuntu Using Hyper-V Quick Create

In this article, I'll walk you through my experience installing and using Quick Create to install Ubuntu on my Windows 10 system.

Amdocs Teams Up for SDN, NFV Orchestration Package

Amdocs has teamed up with Fortinet and Versa Networks to offer a new multi-domain, service provider SD-WAN, software-defined networking and network functions virtualization orchestration solution.

NVIDIA Announces Enhancements to Quadro vDWS

This week at the GPU Technology Conference in Munich, Germany, NVIDIA announced new capabilities to its Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation (Quadro vDWS).

Firm Unveils SDN/NFV as a Service

Netcracker Technology is leveraging software-defined networking and network functions virtualization to offer a full-stack package for delivering turnkey cloud applications and virtual network services.

How To Install Hyper-V on Windows 10 on vSphere 6.5

Here's how you can expose the CPU features needed to run Hyper-V on Windows 10 instance being virtualized on VMware vSphere 6.5.

Technologies To Look into at NetApp Insight 2018

With the event just a few weeks away, here's what's piquing Tom Fenton's interest at this year's conference.

Step-by-Step: Configuring the VMware UEM Debug Level

Tom Fenton walks you through the process of configuring the Debug level in VMware User Environment Manager.

Virtual Network Functions Going Cloud Native in Containers

Remember VNFs, which seemingly only just arrived along with other disruptive, next-gen networking advances like software-defined networking to shake up the once-staid networking space? Now they're already moving on, going cloud-native in containers.

Survey Shows Service Provider Confidence in Open Source, SDN

The Linux Foundation published results of an industry survey that revealed strong confidence among communication services providers in open source networking, and software-defined networking in particular.

Partnership Weds Software-Defined WAN, CORE Offerings

Established software-defined wide-area-network (SD-WAN) vendor Versa Networks is teaming up with software-defined core network (SD-CORE) startup Mode for a new take on enterprise networking.

VMware Announces Availability of Workstation 15 and Fusion 11

Today VMware Inc. announced the availability of the newest versions of its virtual platforms VMware Workstation 15 and VMware Fusion 11.

Nuage Updates 'SD-WAN 2.0' Virtualized Network Services Platform

Nuage Networks claimed several industry "firsts" in announcing an update to its Virtualized Network Services platform, which it characterizes as an SD-WAN 2.0 offering.

Top Takeaways from VMworld 2018

Tom Fenton shares his top takeaways from attending and speaking at VMworld 2018.

Talari Offers New SD-WAN Solution for Connecting Multiple Cloud Services

Talari Networks announced a new offering targeting the growing software-defined wide-area-network space, highlighting connectivity to multiple cloud services.

Q&A: Using VAMI and vimptop To Monitor Your VCSA

Tom Fenton shares some of the Q&As that went on after his VMworld session where he discussed using the vCenter Management Interface and vimtopo to do real-time monitoring of the health of a vCenter Server Appliance.

OpenDaylight SDN Controller Marks Adoption Gains with 9th Release

The ninth release of the OpenDaylight software-defined networking and network functions virtualization platform is out, adding new functionality and marking adoption gains.

VMware Publishes NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.3 Release Notes

VMware Inc. quietly released NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.3 yesterday.

Survey: Firms Struggle to Keep Pace with SDN, Other Networking Changes

Network analytics firm Kentik recently published a study on network management, finding that firms are struggling to keep pace with new developments in the industry.

Creating a Custom Windows AMI in AWS

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) are the mechanism that makes it possible to create Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) virtual machine (VM) instances -- here's how to create a custom Windows AMI.

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