News NetApp Announces a Handful of Cloud, Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Offerings By Wendy A Hernandez 10/23/2018 Today at NetApp Insight, which takes place this week from Oct. 22-24 in Las Vegas, NetApp announced a handful of new cloud, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions for data-driven enterprises. NetApp Cloud Insights, Azure NetApp Files, Cloud Volumes […]

News Versa SD-WAN Integrates with Microsoft Virtual WAN By David Ramel 10/22/2018 Versa Networks today announced a partnership to integrate its software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) with Microsoft’s Azure Virtual WAN to improve branch connectivity. Microsoft this summer announced a public preview of Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN, which lets organizations connect their branch networks to the […]

News New Software-Defined Fabric Leverages White-Box Hardware, Containers By David Ramel 10/15/2018 Start-up Kaloom Inc. announced an automated, programmable networking fabric that leverages white-box hardware and containers to virtualize the datacenter. Called the Kaloom Software Defined Fabric (SDF), the new offering can partition physical datacenters into virtualized instances (vFabric), providing software-defined networking (SDN) advantages such […]

News Amdocs Teams Up for SDN, NFV Orchestration Package By David Ramel 10/11/2018 Amdocs has teamed up with Fortinet and Versa Networks to offer a new multi-domain, service provider SD-WAN, software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) orchestration solution. The solution integrates the Amdocs NFV technology — powered by the open source Open Networking […]

News NVIDIA Announces Enhancements to Quadro vDWS By Wendy A Hernandez 10/10/2018 This week at the GPU Technology Conference in Munich, Germany, NVIDIA announced new capabilities to its Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation (Quadro vDWS). According to the blog post, “Quadro vDWS with multi-GPU performance enables professionals to work remotely on any device, while their […]

News Firm Unveils SDN/NFV as a Service By David Ramel 10/08/2018 Netcracker Technology is leveraging software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) to offer a full-stack package for delivering turnkey cloud applications and virtual network services. Targeting the service provider market, the Netcracker Business Cloud seeks to help them quickly deliver full-stack, modular B2B […]

News Facebook Hack Did Not Affect Microsoft Azure AD B2C Service By Kurt Mackie 10/08/2018 In an Oct. 4, 2018, Service blog post Microsoft said that the Facebook hack last month that potentially exposed the access tokens of about 50 million Facebook users did not affect Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory B2C service. The breach occurred […]

News Palo Alto Networks To Acquire RedLock By Wendy A Hernandez 10/05/2018 This week Palo Alto Networks announced its plans to acquire cloud security provider RedLock Inc. for approximately $173 million in cash. With the acquisition expected to be finalized in Palo Alto Networks’ first fiscal quarter, RedLock cofounders Varun Badhwar and Gaurav Kumar will […]

News Virtual Network Functions Going Cloud Native in Containers By David Ramel 10/02/2018 Remember network functions virtualization (NFV)? It seemingly only just arrived along with other disruptive, next-gen networking advances like software-defined networking (SDN) to shake up the once-staid networking space. The new network architecture followed the software-centric approach, virtualizing network node functions into discrete […]

News Survey Shows Service Provider Confidence in Open Source, SDN By David Ramel 10/01/2018 The Linux Foundation published results of an industry survey that revealed strong confidence among communication services providers (CSPs) in open source networking, and software-defined networking (SDN) in particular. The foundation announced the results during the Open Networking Summit Europe in Amsterdam, […]