Several software-defined networking-flavored projects were announced at this week's Open Compute Project summit, while Telco Systems became the latest vendor to propose an initiative to bring more structure to the growing SDN and network functions virtualization industry.
The company gets a new round of cash, raising its value to more than $1 billion.
Improvements to the HP Helion Eucalyptus solution for creating private clouds compatible with Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) highlighted recent updates to Hewett Packard's Helion cloud ecosystem tools.
Cosentry emphasizes its nearness to the businesses it serves.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 03/10/2015
A new Microsoft partner, Sphere 3D, is making containers that have fewer dependencies than Docker.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/10/2015
For a mobile conference, there was a lot of software-defined networking and network functions virtualization buzz at the recent Mobile World Congress 2015 in Barcelona as mobile service providers are at the vanguard of an industry gearing up for the era of new-age networking.
The company calls the reversal a "sudden" decision due to several factors, including test center snafus.
All the upgrades to the VMware flagship product lead to much better availability of services.
There are wrong ways and right ways to prepare for your tests. Here are some of the right ways.
Docker containers have their own set of challenges when it comes to monitoring. Logentries has produced a solution.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 03/03/2015
New hybrid technologies are the latest addition to the Big Blue growing portfolio.
In this installment, learn how to create an App Stack, then assign it.
The results show where the push for containerization is coming from within organizations.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 02/27/2015
VVOLs, as they're known, could revolutionize your datacenter. Learn how they work and how to set them up.
SUSE Enterprise Storage is unveiled, further crowding the space.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 02/24/2015
Avaya Inc. today unveiled a new software-defined networking (SDN) architecture, building on its fabric-based networking technologies.
Public clouds also outpaced private cloud usage in the informal, limited survey.
Reflecting an industry migration away from proprietary, locked-in networking solutions, Hewlett-Packard Co. will add to the ever-expanding universe of open, white box components, a key part of the new era of software-defined networking and network functions virtualization.
The goal, says Dan, is to make it a "serious enterprise tool" with its deep hooks into the open source, private cloud platform.
- By Dan Kusnetzky
- 02/23/2015
vSphere 6 has more than 650 new features. Here are five of the ones that have the ability to transform your environment.