SDN
Why Go Out the NSX Limb? That’s Where the Fruit Is
Gartner identified it as one of the top 10 strategic technology trends to watch in 2015. IDC estimated the market will reach $8 billion by 2018. HP found a 222 percent ROI ...Full Article
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
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
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
Dell Brings Multi-Rate Switching to the Datacenter
Dell rolled out a series of "open networking" switches and platforms for software-defined datacenters this week designed to widened the data pipe to as much as 100-GbE switching speeds. ...Full Article
Freescale Targets SDN With Switching Platform
Software-defined networks are getting a nudge from hardware vendors, including chipmakers. With an eye toward advancing SDN deployments that are expected to ramp up this year, Freescale Semiconductor introduced ...Full Article
Cisco Bolsters SDN Push with Embrane Deal
Cisco Systems launched its software-defined networking protocol called OpFlex last year as a counter to OpenFlow, a move that drew a growing list of partners. Among them is Embrane ...Full Article
