CERN to Deploy Brocade’s OpenFlow SDN
Software-defined networking technology got a boost this week with a new and demanding use case: uncovering the secrets of the universe. Networking equipment vendor Brocade Communication Systems said it ...Full Article
AT&T Looks to Cut Network Storage Costs
Big network operators like telecommunications and cable carriers are looking for ways to manage storage costs as data volumes grow and applications like streaming video begin to dominate datacenter ...Full Article
‘Wireless-in-Space’ Test Could Help Launch Sensor Nets
Big thinkers with deep pockets like uber-entrepreneur Elon Musk want to bring wireless connectivity to the masses by launching satellite Internet constellations. Given technical issues like latency and the ...Full Article
How to Protect Your Aging Network
The Office of Personnel Management breach was the most recent and public example of the damage aging networks can help deliver to an organization: A lack of standard practices ...Full Article
OpenDaylight Project Releases SDN Upgrade
The OpenDaylight Project designed to accelerate the rollout of software-defined networking announced its third SDN software release along with the formation of a 12-member industry advisory group. The project ...Full Article
Dell Moves to Push SDN to the Cloud
Dell said this week it is partnering with up-and-coming software-defined networking specialist Pluribus Networks to accelerate SDN adoption in the cloud. The partners said Thursday (June 11) they would ...Full Article
Avago-Broadcom Deal Creates Comms Chip Leader
The inexorable shift of chip making to Asia continued this week with the announcement that Singapore-based semiconductor manufacturer Avago Technologies Ltd. will acquire U.S. mainstay Broadcom Corp. in a ...Full Article
Is the IoT Really ‘Internet of Sensors’?
A contrarian view of the conceptual framework known as the Internet to Things asserts that it should really be called the Internet of Sensors. "Companies that embrace the IoS ...Full Article
Hybrid WAN Startup CloudGenix Raises $25M
Along with most everything else in the datacenter, networks, including hybrid wide-area networks, are increasingly being managed by software. That software-defined approach has attracted the attention of investors who ...Full Article
Robbins Succeeds Chambers at Cisco
Chuck Robbins, a 17-year veteran of Cisco Systems, was named Monday (May 4) to succeed Silicon Valley icon John Chambers as CEO of the global networking giant. Robbins' ascension ...Full Article
