Edgewater Customizes SD-WAN to Fit Small Businesses
The company's SD-WAN is geared toward smaller companies that are not looking for an MPLS replacement.
CenturyLink SD-WAN Biz Remains Small, but Is Growing
Most customers are buying SD-WAN services together with MPLS though the former is showing stronger overall growth.
FBI Takes On Russian Hackers, Seizes VPNFilter Malware Domain
The move essentially redirects the malware’s attacks to an FBI-controlled server.
Lumina Networks Raises $10M With Investments From Both Verizon and AT&T
It will spend some of its funding to expand its business in Europe and in Japan.
HCI, Storage Revenue, and HPE Next Cost Cuts Boost HPE’s Bottom Line
The company saved about $83 million over the first half of fiscal 2018 though its HPE Next cost-cutting initiative.
EMA Report: Network Management Teams Shift Focus to SD-WAN, SDN, and SDDC
SD-WAN is priority for enterprises that want to make their networks more automated.
Kata Containers 1.0 Launch Hones In On Security, Interoperability Fears
The project claims greater security than traditional containers by tapping into virtual machine schema but remains compatible with Docker and Kubernetes in the container ecosystem.
Cisco Warns Massive Russian Malware Attack Hit 500k Routers Globally
Security researchers tied the malware to a Russian group responsible for hacking incidents during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.
Service Providers Grapple With ‘VNF Islands’
Newly released SDxCentral 2018 report on the VNF Ecosystem finds SD-WAN and vCPE are top use cases for NFV and the driving force behind service providers virtualizing their networks.
Verizon Study: 15% of Enterprises Surveyed Are Deploying SDN
Many companies are looking at ways to accelerate their SDN adoption so they don’t risk falling behind.
Pica8 Guns for Cisco With PicaPilot White Box Software Platform
The software is targeted at large-scale enterprises looking to make the jump from legacy or proprietary systems like those from Cisco.
AT&T Evolves its AT&T Integrated Cloud via Airship, Making it 100% Container-Based
AT&T rebranded its AIC. And 5G will be the first new use case to run on its evolved network cloud.
Cato SD-WAN Hunts Down Threats With Zero-Footprint Data Aggregation
The company’s cloud-based SD-WAN platform upgraded its security offering by adding a threat hunting system that eliminates enterprises’ need to deploy data collection infrastructure and analyze raw data.
Securing the Multi-Cloud: It Takes a Village
Even enterprises not in a multi-cloud environment must begin making their security decisions with it in mind. If they don’t, they risk some of their decisions quickly becoming obsolete.
Pivot3 Adds Live Migration Across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud
The hyperconverged infrastructure vendor partnered with CloudEndure, whose software provides disaster recovery and live migration technology, for the new services.
OpenStack Makes its Open Source CI/CD Platform Available to the Wider World
OpenStack has been decoupling Zuul from OpenStack-specific systems to make the software available to more developers.
Spectre and Meltdown Chip Flaws Back From the Dead as ‘Variant 4’
Microsoft and Google security researchers disclosed the new bugs, which affect Intel, AMD, and ARM processors.
Juniper, Red Hat Tighten Integration to Fend Off VMware
The goal is to help enterprises more easily take advantage of open cloud systems.
Masergy Makes Its SD-WAN More Agile With Bandwidth On-Demand
Customers can now scale their broadband connections up and down on a schedule or in real-time.
Imperiled ZTE May Get a Reprieve as China, U.S. Work on Deal to Remove Ban
The Trump administration is considering lifting the ban in exchange for a removal of tariffs on products from the U.S. farm belt and reduced tariffs on imported U.S. automobiles.