Try as you might, there’s no avoiding 5G (real and fake), IoT, SD-WAN, or AI.

Google, nVidia, IBM face a new formidable AI challenger in Huawei.

Huawei’s recent AI portfolio release emphasizes that AI isn’t just a collection of fancy machine learning libraries but is instead a facet of a much larger, living system.

Flat networks make it possible to centrally provision resources without having to reconfigure policies.

Automation is getting a lot of buzz right now but operators should only use automation if it helps reduce the complexity of the network or compensates for human limitations.

OSCON 2018 did a great job of highlighting women and people of color in their programming.

The scale and impact of Kubernetes was obvious at the recent OSCON 2018 conference in Portland, Oregon.

Unless the TM Forum spends more time on the cultural challenges, most operators will continue to struggle to make meaningful strides toward the holy grail of becoming bona fide

SDN and NFV are a reality today, but is it the reality that the industry wanted? It's up to the SDN community to set realistic expectations and be candid

Organizations are automating security incident investigations and making use of deception grids to identify breaches more quickly.

Modern data centers employ IT automation to cut costs and inject agility

Carrier virtualization, programmability and the massive data sets from machine learning and analytics are driving new requirements for data centers.

With machine learning, big data, cloud, and NFV initiatives invading the data center, there are implications for data center networking performance.

The rise of IT automation frameworks will force companies to rethink who in the IT organization will ultimately be responsible for networking.

Next-generation applications will demand a new level of service assurance that can be delivered by third-party SDN technologies, married with monitoring and automation.

Huawei says it now has more than 50,000 patents.

Big data and analytics are transforming Network Virtualization (NV) by taking advantage of new sources of data and providing analytics tools that can link to automation in software-defined networks

EMA research has found the majority of early adopters have management challenges with NV and SDN.

High hopes about for network automation, but what's realistic?

Fortune 500 companies and global governments are often subject to security breaches. For protection, organizations must make changes to security technologies.

I've been banging the table about how network security is the hottest application for Software Defined Networking (SDN). This week, Big Switch Networks confirms this trend with the release

This week the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States met on interest-rate policy and decided it will be very careful about raising rates. You may ask what this

Monitoring and analytics technology will be a big part of building a more automated and adaptive computing infrastructure, as we detailed in our Future of the Software Defined Data

What's fun about being a journalist/analyst (or "Janalyst" as I call it) is you get to meet lots of people -- and learn new things. Sometimes these things are