Versa Networks Has Sold 150,000 Licenses for Its SD-WAN
Versa prefers not to itemize its quarterly revenues on IHS Markit's SD-WAN vendor list. “Of that list of vendors, we’re the only one that is purely software and subscription based," says Versa's CEO.
CA Technologies and Ixia Decrease Complexity of Monitoring Cisco ACI, SD-WAN, Cloud
CA Technologies and Ixia extended an existing partnership to resolve scale and complexity hurdles introduced by software-defined infrastructures.
Oracle Sets Internet Map Free, Uses It to Pull Companies Into Its Cloud
The visibility tool is part of the company’s Internet Intelligence initiative and uses technology acquired from Dyn, a cloud-based domain name service provider Oracle bought in 2016.
Docker Corrals Kubernetes Growth Across AWS, GCP, and Azure
The expanded management capabilities use an application management plane that can work across different cloud providers and in on-premises locations.
Cisco Claims 800-Plus SD-WAN Customers Post Viptela Acquisition
Cisco plans to add intent-based networking functionality to its SD-WAN offering in the next 12 to 18 months.
AppViewX Names Former Cedexis Chief Executive Ryan Windham as CEO
Ryan Windham is the network management company’s second CEO this year. Anand Purusothaman became CEO after Manuel Rivelo left in January, and while Windham dealt with the acquisition of Cedexis.
Rubrik Wraps Its Data Management Software Around Hybrid Cloud
The Alta 4.2 release supports Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud-native workloads and traditional IBM AIX and Oracle Solaris environments.
AT&T Prevails in Court Case to Acquire Time Warner
The judgement could signal an easier regulatory environment for T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint. Or not.
Juniper Updates MX Routers With New Silicon, Built-In Encryption
The new programmable silicon includes a packet forwarding engine that delivers a 50 percent power efficiency gain over the existing Junos Trio chipset, the company claims.
Orchestration Is Not a Use Case: The Top 3 Things Orchestration Is Not
Before enterprises can truly deploy orchestration and automation platforms they must understand what they are, and what they are not.
5 Things You Should Know About VMware
Serverless, IoT security, and the crack house were all hot topics at VMware’s annual research and development conference.
VMware Releases NFV for OpenStack Specifically Tuned for Telcos
It’s a full OpenStack suite including compute, storage, networking, and the virtual infrastructure manager (VIM) layer. It comprises an end-to-end NFVi platform.
Cisco Expands its Intent-Based Networking by Opening its API Doors to Third Parties
Cisco executives tout their API-driven approach as the company's DevNet membership now tops 500,000 registered developers.
Network Engineers Feel Pressure to Embrace DevOps Practices
By 2019, 69 percent of enterprise IT organizations will be trying to manage some type of multi-cloud environment.
ONAP’s Second Code Release, Beijing, Enables the Software to Use Kubernetes
While AT&T and China Mobile contributed the lion’s share of the initial code for ONAP, others are now stepping up to contribute more. A snapshot of contributors from the second quarter of 2018 shows that Huawei, Amdocs, and ZTE, along with many others, are contributing.
Resin.io Scores Funds, Deal With KDDI’s Soracom IoT Biz
Resin.io uses Linux-based containers and cloud technologies to support IoT deployments. Those efforts revolve around separating core operations of the IoT device from the application layer.
Cisco: We’re Still Open to the Ericsson Partnership
The much-touted Cisco-Ericsson partnership is languishing thanks to the executive changes at Ericsson.
Silver Peak Focuses on Segmentation and SD-WAN Security
By adding centralized orchestration and network automation to its Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN, Silver Peak customers can segment their users and applications to improve security.
Nyansa Illuminates Network Blind Spots With Client and WAN Data Sources
Nyansa’s software platform Voyance collects data from across the network, correlates it, determines patterns and anomalies, and suggests remediation. Its most recent update fixes two known blind spots in the monitoring tool.
Splunk Buys VictorOps for $120 Million, Boosts DevOps Play
VictorOps’ platform for incident management will be integrated with the Splunk machine data platform to enable monitoring, event management, and "ChatOps" for DevOps teams.