Cisco this week invested in a Parisian new-generation networking company as part of a broader initiative to bolster French digital businesses, but some see the move as a long-range strategic positioning against SDN/NFV competitors.
Trying to select one and only one hypervisor to create virtual environments can be a fool's errand.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 07/08/2015
Within four years, predicts IDC, that number will increase to nearly half of all infrastructure spending.
Condusiv takes aim at Windows I/O requests to optimize virtual workloads.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 07/07/2015
Masergy Communications announced Virtual f(n), an NFV solution that puts networking routing and firewall capabilities entirely into the software realm.
It's a new feature that introduces tighter security controls into your virtual infrastructure.
The integration with its product suite means more choice for enterprises.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 07/02/2015
Just two days after a new release of the OpenDaylight software-defined networking platform, a study came out today saying the nascent technology and its sidekick, network functions virtualization, "could be as significant as the introduction of IP networks themselves."
AnyPresence believes it has a solution with its Mobile Backend-as-a-Service.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/30/2015
There's a dizzying selection of storage solutions out there. Which one is right for you? The answer will often be "more than one."
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/30/2015
Microsoft's virtualization platform has matured into a solid, dependable workhorse. Here's a primer for getting the most out of it.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 06/29/2015
Of course disaster recovery is important for any datacenter; but it's even better to not have to recover from a disaster.
Pluribus Networks, on a mission to advance software-defined networking, has teamed up with Red Hat and Super Micro Computer to demonstrate a converged infrastructure package.
To understand what HA solutions best fit your environment, you need to understand their history and how they've evolved.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/25/2015
Digging into Azure IaaS, migrating LOB systems and more.
- By Paul Schnackenburg
- 06/24/2015
Microsoft demos a container app that works on both Linux and Windows.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/24/2015
Two new products may speed up development time, but do they lead to lock-in?
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 06/22/2015
A new vSphere feature lets multiple virtual machines share a PCI card.
A demo project at this week's Open Networking Summit aims to pave the way for implementing next-generation networking technologies in telecom carriers' central offices, using open standards software and commodity hardware to replace proprietary, fragmented systems.
The company says its new product does not compete with Microsoft's Active Directory.
- By John K. Waters
- 06/17/2015