Global communications company Alcatel-Lucent today unveiled what it claims to be the first unified software-defined networking platform for the service provider industry.
Workspace Cloud gets its first public demonstration, at its Synergy conference.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/20/2015
The newest version of VMware's flagship promises easier virtual HDD conversions. James puts that promise to the test.
Software-defined networking company Nuage Networks continued to make moves to further its positioning in the open networking arena, forming partnerships and increasing its new-age networking portfolio.
With the goal of simplifying deployment of new-age networking technologies such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV), PLUMgrid Inc. and Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. have teamed up to tackle OpenStack automation.
They're cheap, but can be shut down without warning, and are automatically terminated after 24 hours.
Are you gaining flexibility or unwittingly setting yourself up for lock-in?
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 05/18/2015
DataCore's survey has lots of valuable insights.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 05/15/2015
Visibility between software-defined networking virtualization overlays and physical infrastructure underlays is a continuing theme at the Open Networking User Group conference, most recently evidenced by news from Pluribus Networks.
Nuage Networks today claimed it has addressed a major constraint to the adoption of software-defined networking (SDN) technologies: visibility between physical and virtualized networking layers.
New features help it compete more directly with Horizon View.
Big Switch Networks today announced its upgraded software-defined networking offering now supports VMware NSX virtualization.
How to leverage Security Assertion Markup Language to pass authentication information to Salesforce.
PLUMgrid is partnering with Cumulus Networks to offer the benefits of software-defined networking in OpenStack environments running on bare-metal hardware.
Dan responds to questions about the virtualization giant's viability going forward.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 05/11/2015
A team of open source networking industry players successfully implemented a software-defined networking (SDN) proof of concept by deploying a peering router between Australia and the United States.
A just-released benchmark lists 84 recommendations for securing Docker containers.
The new Atlantis product, Hyperscale, works with existing storage to make it more efficient.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 05/07/2015
Ciena Corp. is the latest networking vendor to eschew the homegrown route and buy its new-age technology outright, this time in the form of a $400 million acquisition of Cyan Inc.
Simplified upgrades is another feature, including rolling upgrades for Hyper-V.