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

When it comes to making the business case for software-defined wide area networking), the good news is that the business case is compelling.

Virtualizing the data center may make it more efficient and agile but additional processing power may be needed.

SD-WAN adoption is growing quickly as IT organizations become aware of the benefits of this approach to networking.

Network virtualization is making microsegmentation possible and allowing networks to isolate security breaches.

Cisco's new security chief has ambitions bigger than $2B a year.

Hyperconverged infrastructure requires IT organizations to consider a scale out architecture.

Service providers must accurately estimate vCPE processing power if they want to avoid ripping and replacing equipment down the road.

It may soon be unnecessary to backhaul traffic to the data center.

Soon it will be difficult to tell where one cloud begins and another one ends.

While software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) don’t necessarily require each other to add value to an enterprise, they are collectively being joined at the proverbial hip.

Amazon Web Services illustrates the growing importance of offloading network services from servers using NICs.

For as long as any of us can remember, fulfillment and assurance were two independent processes, mostly because they were conceived, operated and purchased by separate departments.

It’s becoming clear that a smarter NIC will be crucial to white boxes built for NFV and SDN applications.

Advanced networking technologies for OpenStack could optimize the cloud environment for service providers – as well as enterprise.

OpenStack is becoming the de facto standard for infrastructure orchestration for NFV deployment by leading Communications Service Providers (CSPs).

The industry seeks to address interoperability among network virtualization (NV) implementations, but getting networking vendors to work together remains a challenge.

Industry growth is being hampered by a lack of IT professionals who have the skills required to deploy network virtualization (NV) and software-defined networking (SDN) in the enterprise.

SDxCentral got the following updates from Kelly Ahuja as he embarks on his new career in software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN).

A wide array of supplementary technologies, including adjustments to the NIC, are being built to deliver high performance NFV for service providers.

As providers of container networking platforms jostle for position, the industry is eagerly awaiting the emergence of container networking interoperability.

Industry experts are still debating whether white boxes can take over the networking world.

As NFV efforts shift away from physical network appliances, the use of NFV coprocessors will be key to averting software and hardware bottlenecks.

A debate is starting to roil the networking community, centered around the amount of sprawl network virtualization might spawn across the enterprise.