Google Cloud Gives Chase, but AWS Is Still out on the Horizon
Amazon is still a speck on the horizon, though.
Juniper Targets Tier 2s With IP & Optical Integration
It will integrate optical technology in its routers.
Kelly Ahuja Will Be the Latest to Leave the Cisco Management Team
Yvette Kanouff takes the service provider group amid a reportedly huge Cisco reorg.
New Cisco Hyperflex Accelerates Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Cisco’s newly released HyperFlex extends Cisco’s strategy of software-defined, policy-driven infrastructure to hyperconvergence to overcome the limitations of early hyperconverged infrastructure solutions.
Cumulus Names New CEO
The current CEO moves to CTO.
CenturyLink Sends Mixed Messages on Its Data Center Plans
To sell or not to sell.
OSM Comes to NFV MANO With Code in Hand
It's all about making VNFs easier to build, OSM members say.
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — March 18, 2016
CORD was a big topic at the Open Networking Summit this week.
Google Has Done NFV Load Balancing Since 2008
Google reveals details of its in-house NFV load balancer.
New Cisco Switches Offer Cloud-Scale Technology, Cloud Speed, Cloud Economics
Cisco says its new Nexus 9000 switches provide a two-year time-to-market advantage over its competition, an order of magnitude increase in the number of endpoints, and 25G at the price of 10G and 100G at the price of 40G.
With Open-O, China Tries Its Hand at Open Source
This could bring in a lot of Chinese developer talent.
Microsoft’s SONiC May Spell Disaster for Switch Makers, or Not
Analysts disagree on whether Arista should be worried.
Citrix Offers Its Enterprise Customers SD-WAN
It already has a built-in customer base for this offering.
Featured Interview: Red Hat’s Radhesh Balakrishnan – The Importance of Open Source Communities in a Carrier Grade NFV World
SDxCentral recently interviewed Red Hat's General Manager of OpenStack, Radhesh Balakrishnan, and discussed the meaning of carrier grade in the NFV world and the importance of working with the open source communities.
Open Source NFV for Cost-Effective, High-Performance Networking
DPDK is now the open source framework for high-performance packet processing.
AT&T Considers Open Sourcing Its SDN ‘Foundation’
John Donovan introduces Ecomp on the ONS 2016 stage.
ONS Kickoff: Open Source Needs to Stay Open
Open source and networking do mix, but not easily.
Accelerate Business Agility with Containers
An upcoming webinar with SDxCentral and RedHat will separate container fact from hype and show how enterprise IT can use containers to accelerate business agility and achieve greater security across hybrid cloud environments.
HPE Debuts Its Hyperconverged Appliance
HPE enters the hyperconverged infrastructure market with its HC 380.
Skyport Systems Grabs Google & Cisco in $30M Series C
Security service provider focuses on zero-trust computing.