Feds May Have Caused Juniper’s Security Breach & Suffered From It Too
If only the right hand knew what the left hand was doing.
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — January 29, 2016
Phew! It was a busy week in the realm of software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV). Here’s a final roundup: Microsoft launched a technical preview of Azure Stack, software for running a private, on-premises cloud. This opens the possibility of running a hybrid cloud where the public and private halves both run on... Read more →
Another Cisco Departure: Pankaj Patel Stepping Down as CDO
CEO Chuck Robbins's team continues to take shape.
Tier 1 Telcos Join the Open Compute Project
Telcos want open hardware in their data centers.
Real-Time Traffic Monitoring Is Built Into Your Network: Why Aren’t You Using It?
How to use the sFlow instrumentation built into your hardware.
Network Evolution: What Lies Ahead in 2016
Happy 2016 to all! I was fortunate enough to finish 2015 quietly with family and friends. It was a luxury I deeply appreciated. Like most of you, I spend most of the year trying to balance work with play, personal friends with professional coworkers, and family with career. It was really nice during the break... Read more →
Extreme Networks’ Q2 Provokes an Extreme Reaction
A 26% drop after a satisfactory Q2 report.
Juniper Networks announces Date and Webcast Information for Upcoming Investor Events in February 2016
Rami Rahim, chief executive officer, Juniper Networks, will present at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2016, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016 at 9:40 am PT in San Francisco. In addition, Juniper Networks will be hosting an investor and analyst update on Tuesday, February 23, 2016 from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, beginning at... Read more →
Cisco-Arista Court Date Gets Snowed Out
The ITC will try again on Feb. 2.
EMC Partners With Self-Organizing Network Vendor
EMC's NFV group partners with Cellwize.
2016 is the year NFV comes to a Service Provider near you
As we have moved out of 2015 and into 2016, we’ve had time to reflect on where the industry’s headed and what changes took place last year. The number of Internet users continues to climb 7.2 percent year over year with no end in sight. It is currently at 3.17 billion, which is up from... Read more →
Juniper Likes Its 2016 Chances. It Just Doesn’t Like Q1
No one product or market is at fault; Juniper just thinks Q1 will be stormy all 'round.
HyTrust CTO Interview: Operations Challenges for the SDDC
Operations teams are at the front lines of incident response. HyTrust CTO describes the challenges these teams face in the SDDC.
Juniper Pummeled by a Conservative Q1 Forecast
That darned macroeconomy has Juniper hedging its bets in its Q1 outlook.
Juniper Networks Reports Preliminary Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2015 Financial Results
SUNNYVALE, CA–(Marketwired – January 27, 2016) – Juniper Networks (:), the industry leader in network innovation, today reported preliminary financial results for the three months and twelve months ended Dec. 31, 2015 and provided its outlook for the three months ending March 31, 2016. Net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2015 were $1,319.6 million, an... Read more →
EMC Is Adamant That the Dell Acquisition Will Work
Q4 breaks EMC's 24-quarter streak of top-line growth.
WAN Services to Drive NFV Revenue
User feedback, both through primary interviews and SDxCentral surveys, indicates that both enterprises and service providers are interested in network functions virtualization (NFV).
Ericsson Paints Cisco as a Bright Spot in Its Earnings Future
Ericsson’s revenues were up, but its stock is down.
The Need for Speed: Networking Mimics Processing Power of the Human Brain
As a motorsports enthusiast, one of the things that I have massive respect for is the brain’s ability to process information in extreme situations. The amount of data we can consume and process simultaneously is uncanny. It’s something I directly relate to, having raced motorcycles for many years. Making an assessment of a situation at... Read more →
Aryaka Builds a Global Private Network for SD-WAN
No overlays, no MPLS: Aryaka took a DIY approach to SD-WAN.