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.
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.
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.
Today VMware Inc. announced the availability of the newest versions of its virtual platforms VMware Workstation 15 and VMware Fusion 11.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 09/25/2018
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.
Tom Fenton shares his top takeaways from attending and speaking at VMworld 2018.
Talari Networks announced a new offering targeting the growing software-defined wide-area-network space, highlighting connectivity to multiple cloud services.
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.
The ninth release of the OpenDaylight software-defined networking and network functions virtualization platform is out, adding new functionality and marking adoption gains.
VMware Inc. quietly released NSX Data Center for vSphere 6.4.3 yesterday.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 09/12/2018
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.
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.
Last week VMware Inc. recalled VMware Tools 10.3.0 due to a "functional issue with 10.3.0 in ESXi 6.5."
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 09/10/2018
See how to access the VAMI and use some of its features to perform basic administrative tasks, including monitoring your VCSA and applying patches and upgrades, among others.
The company is featuring software-defined networking functionality front and center in a 10-part blog series about the top networking features in its upcoming flagship server OS release.
A look at secure ways of accessing your Windows or Linux VMs, plus Azure Security Center, Azure Backup, optimizing networking for VMs, automating creation of VMs, and tips and tricks for managing VMs running in Azure.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 09/05/2018
Dell announces new Internet of Things (IoT) offerings that include more automation and intelligence
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 08/30/2018
Announcements at this week's VMworld conference in Las Vegas can be seen as a microcosm snapshot of the general industry trend away from hardware-centric solutions to the software-defined, a sweet spot for VMware's virtualization offerings.
This week at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) debuted its Radeon Pro V340 graphics card.
- By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 08/29/2018
After a bevy of announcements during day one of its VMworld conference that featured edge and IoT technologies, VMware today unveiled new offerings as part of its effort to extend its hybrid and multi-cloud environments to the edge.