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CloudRouter Achieves 650 Gb/s & Expands Into SDN
It used a Mellanox NIC for the throughput.
Brocade Buys DevOps & Automation Startup StackStorm
One small purchase could be one giant leap into DevOps and automation.
Dell Sells Its IT Services Unit to NTT Data for $3.05B
It's selling the unit for less than it paid for it.
Open Source Groups Invited to Play Ball With AT&T
Ecomp would be the mother of SDN open source groups.
Verizon Built a Telco Cloud
It’s based on OpenStack, COTS hardware, and a pod architecture.
Microsoft & HPE Help Mesosphere Raise $73.5M
Both Microsoft and HPE are customers as well.
Huawei Touts its SDN for Data Center Interconnection
It uses an ONOS-based SDN controller.
Juniper Targets Tier 2s With IP & Optical Integration
It will integrate optical technology in its routers.
Cumulus Names New CEO
The current CEO moves to CTO.
CenturyLink Sends Mixed Messages on Its Data Center Plans
To sell or not to sell.
Google Has Done NFV Load Balancing Since 2008
Google reveals details of its in-house NFV load balancer.
Microsoft’s SONiC May Spell Disaster for Switch Makers, or Not
Analysts disagree on whether Arista should be worried.
Citrix Offers Its Enterprise Customers SD-WAN
It already has a built-in customer base for this offering.
NTT Docomo Chooses Cisco & NEC to Virtualize Its Mobile Network
Cisco does the SDN, and NEC does the NFV.
Enterprises Projected to Increase Software-Defined Infrastructure Spending 14.4% in 2016
Only 16.3% of enterprises do SDN.
SANs Are a ‘Pain Point’ in Converged Data Centers, Says Plexxi
Plexxi has created a product and lined up resellers.
Microsoft Provides Open Source Cloud Switch Software
The Azure Cloud Switch becomes open source.
Lenovo & Juniper Partner for Hyperconverged Data Center
Juniper contributes its networking, including SDN.
Open Compute Project Looks at WiFi Access Points
Extending open hardware all the way to access points.
Versa’s Software-Defined Security Wins Business With a Systems Integrator
Versa recently added SD-security to its SD-WAN.