Oracle’s Larry Ellison Teases More Autonomous Cloud Services Coming Soon
Oracle will announce more autonomous cloud services over the next few months, said CTO Larry Ellison. These will include autonomous “analytics, mobility, application development, and integration services.”
Verizon and Cisco ICN Trial Finds Names More Efficient Than Numbers
The trial mainly focused on management of streaming video content, which could account for up to 80 percent of Verizon's network traffic.
Facebook, Google, Big Switch Demo Network Operating Systems Built on Open Hardware
Facebook’s FBOSS and Google’s Stratum use Open Network Linux hardware. ONL is a Linux distribution for bare metal switches and it is one of OCP’s several open hardware projects.
CA Veracode Validates Application Security, DevOps Processes
Eighty-four percent of software buyers include security requirements in new vendor contracts.
Hyperledger Intros Caliper to Measure Blockchain Performance
Currently, there is no open source blockchain benchmarking tool.
European Consortium Delivers Superfast 5G Fronthaul Data
The focus is to reduce fronthaul and backhaul cots by using Ethernet-based networking and virtual networking in the fronthaul, the BBUs, and the remote radio heads.
The 3 Commandments of Cloud Security
Addressing key guidelines to keep your AWS cloud secure.
The P4 Language Grows Up, Joins the ONF and Linux Foundation
P4 takes SDN to the next level, bringing programmability to the forwarding plane.
Verizon: Being First With 5G Will Give Us a Big Advantage
Getting the company’s engineers adept at working with millimeter wave spectrum and knowing how to work with municipalities on cell sites is Verizon’s “secret sauce.”
IBM Builds Latest Cloud Analytics Platform on Kubernetes
The use of containers provides an abstraction layer to support AI behind the firewall. This latest announcement builds on IBM's continued support for Kubernetes.
SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — March 15, 2018
Riverbed rebrands itself and launches new platform; GTT expands into Canada; resin.io adds multicontainer support.
Sedona Systems Unveils Hierarchical SDN Controller
It sits above domain controllers from packet and transport vendors.
Cybersecurity: Where the Women Aren’t
So far, there's not a single female cybersecurity expert keynoting at the upcoming RSA Conference.
Verizon and Colt Use SDN Orchestration to Control Each Other’s Networks
The companies claim the PoC was the first to show two-way control.
IBM Cloud Security Beefs Up Protection for Apps, Containers
IBM partnered with Cloudflare to offer cloud-based security services.
Why Do We Need the Virtual Central Office When We Already Have CORD?
It harks back to the age-old preference for one controller over another.
Univa Taps Open Source Community to Bolster Enterprise HPC
The open source efforts will operate as Project Tortuga.
NetScout Extends Service Assurance to VMware, WiFi Infrastructures
The new version will help users identify performance issues more quickly.
Cloudian Acquires SD-Storage Pioneer Infinity Storage
HPE, a mutual partner, played matchmaker.
IBM Trumps Cloud Rivals With Managed Kubernetes on Bare Metal
The bare metal support provides for greater performance compared with cloud deployments.