SD-WAN Sales Will Hit $2.2B by 2022, Dell’Oro Group Says
Software components like controllers and VNFs are growing almost twice as fast as hardware components.
Automation and AI in Telco Ops — A Reality Check
Automation is getting a lot of buzz right now but operators should only use automation if it helps reduce the complexity of the network or compensates for human limitations.
Research Brief: Achieving Early Success in Edge Deployments
SDxCentral’s new Research Brief on Edge Computing aims to provide insights into the most common pitfalls in building out the edge and provides recommendations on how to maximize success at the Edge for operators.
Research Brief: Achieving Early Success in Edge Deployments
SDxCentral’s new Research Brief on Edge Computing aims to provide insights into the most common pitfalls in building out the edge and provides recommendations on how to maximize success at the Edge for operators.
SAP Kubernetes Efforts Focused On the ‘Big Bump’ Not ‘Propeller Heads’
The firm says Kubernetes is still a "three-star wizard to figure out," but abstraction could help ease deployment pains.
Cohesity’s Helios Uses Machine Learning to Manage Secondary Data
The cloud service gives companies visibility and mobility across all of their secondary data and applications from a single dashboard. It also uses machine learning and analytics to power a bunch of new infrastructure management features.
Foundries.io Tightens Edge, IoT Integration to Boost Security
The firm sees constant and long-term updates as key to maintaining edge and IoT security.
Keysight Provides NTT DoCoMo With 5G Network Emulation for 5G NR Devices
Keysight and NTT DoCoMo have been collaborating on 5G research since 2015 when the two companies worked on mmWave channel measurement.
Arista Taps VMware, Zscaler to Create Consistent Cloud Security
VMware’s software will bring common security policy enforcement to virtual and physical workloads. Zscaler brings its north-south traffic security.
North America Will Be First With 5G, IHS 5G Survey Says
Lower latency, high capacity, and lower cost per bit are the three big draws for operators to deploy 5G.
Microsoft Foils Russian Security Threat, Seizes Fake Political Websites
Microsoft said it has used this approach 12 times in two years to shut down 84 fake websites associated with the state-sponsored hacking group called Fancy Bear.
Akraino Edge Stack Project Hits Execution Stage
The Linux Foundation-hosted project is opening up its seed code that initially was contributed by AT&T.
Dell EMC Touts ‘Kinetic’ Composable Infrastructure in VMworld Ramp Up
Composable infrastructure — Dell EMC calls it “kinetic infrastructure” — treats networking, storage, and compute as fluid resource pools that can be composed and recomposed on the fly.
Gaming Company Replaces Cisco, F5, and Juniper With XCloud Networks
XCloud Networks taps SDN and NFV for custom networking. And the startup won Innova as its second customer to replace its existing data center infrastructure.
Nyansa Voyance Extends Monitoring to Aruba, Extreme Networks Wireless Systems
Nyansa Voyance already integrates and correlates data from a number of data sources and vendor systems including Cisco, GE, and Microsoft.
SUSE Builds a Custom Linux Kernel to Boost Microsoft Azure Performance
The custom kernel provides up to 25 percent faster network throughput and a 23 percent drop in average latency for on-demand instances.
Open19 Data Centers Pick Up Steam
The open data center effort added Packet’s CEO as a board member and will soon sell Open19 compliant servers on its online marketplace.
Security in the New World of Containers and Serverless
This eBrief from SDxCentral takes a look at some of the security issues facing serverless and containers and delves into some of the tools and methodologies available to overcome these challenges.
Apstra Hires Former VeloCloud Exec, Tells Cisco to Bring It
Michael Wood took another emerging technology vendor, VeloCloud, to the top of the SD-WAN market. Apstra wants him to do the same for its company and intent-based networking.
6 Recommendations for a Future-Proof Hybrid Cloud Strategy
Hybrid cloud computing for high performance computing is quickly becoming commonplace, but there are certain challenges that CIOs must overcome in order to reap all the benefits.