Vint Cerf Envies the Modern ‘Internet Adventure’ with Open Routing, Switching
The disaggregation of the control plane and data plane with open interfaces feels a bit like the free-wheeling days of the early internet.
Kubernetes Development Remains Hot, But What’s Next?
The latest update showed continued maturation, but enterprises, developers, and vendors are still struggling to adapt.
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Australian Macquarie Telecom Rolls Out SD-WAN for Aged Care Provider
The SD-WAN network will connect more than 20 Hall and Prior nursing home locations in Western Australia and New South Wales.
VMware Boosts Cloud Management Automation, Promises Azure Support Soon
VMware added new cloud management automation capabilities to its data center software and said Microsoft Azure support is “very near.”
Hybrid Cloud Security 101: What IT Leaders Need to Know
Hybrid cloud environments present a revolutionary change in how organizations store and manage their data. But what happens if access to the cloud is compromised or interrupted?
Docker CTO Solomon Hykes Will Leave the Company He Co-Founded
Hykes said the reason behind the move is because Docker Inc.’s current business requires a CTO with decades of experience shipping and supporting software.
Nokia Will Slash 353 Jobs in Network, Technology Units
Nokia total revenues dipped 1 percent to $8.3 billion in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Amdocs Leverages ONAP to Win Microsoft as a Customer
Amdocs' leadership position in ONAP seems to have given it an entrée with a major public cloud provider. And an Amdocs exec says open source is an environment where you cannot disconnect technical relationships from business.
Dell EMC, Metaswitch Push Software Disaggregation With Composable Network Protocols
Metaswitch’s routing and control plane protocols run as applications on top of AT&T’s disaggregated network operating system. That dNOS platform this week moved to the open source community as DANOS.
Cisco Disaggregates Its IOS XR, Though ‘Open’ Remains Ambiguous
The disaggregation push of its service provider OS includes support for routers using off-the-shelf silicon, but device support is limited to “a curated set of third-party devices.”
China Mobile Picks Nuage’s SDN Platform to Expand Enterprise Cloud
Nuage’s SDN deployment spans more than 10 data centers, the largest containing more than 1,000 servers.
VMware Buys Second Security Startup, E8 Security
The virtualization giant will add E8 Security’s user and entity behavior analytics technology to its digital workspace platform.
Reliance Jio Has Luxury of Building a Greenfield SDN Network
The Indian mobile operator is building a software-defined network (SDN) from scratch using Cisco, Samsung, and other vendors, along with cherry-picked open source code.
AT&T’s dNOS Morphs Into the Linux Foundation’s DANOS
At the Open Networking Summit, AT&T said DANOS was critical to the company as it deploys 60,000 white boxes and transforms its network to deal with the onslaught of traffic and the advent of 5G.
McAfee Drops New SOCs, Netskope Takes CASB Beyond Cloud Apps
McAfee opened new security operations centers in Plano, Texas, and Cork, Ireland. Also today Netskope expanded its cloud security platform to include web access.
MEC-Focused Akraino Project Lures Intel and Wind River Support
The project launched last month uses source code from AT&T and is targeted at developing carrier-grade computing applications running in virtual machines and containers. The community expects to release code by mid-year.
U.S. Mobile Operators Will Spend $100B on 5G by 2020, Study Says
Many factors will influence capex spending including the type of 5G deployed, the spectrum bands used, and the amount of fiber available.
HPE Acquires Sensor-Based Service Assurance Startup Cape Networks
Cape Networks will become part of HPE's Aruba division and its technology will be integrated into Aruba’s machine learning platform, NetInsight.
Autonomous Drones Will Run on Vapor IO’s Edge Data Centers
Vapor IO’s Project Volutus edge network is live in Chicago and the company said it will power 27 additional sites by year-end.