The P4 language is one of several new chip technologies emerging to boost performance in NFV and bring it up to the high standards of service provider networks.

Armed with partners, Cumulus still aims to change the networking world.

An in depth analysis of the implications of increased threats for network virtualization, cloud & security.

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

New technology is emerging, designed to improve performance in NFV to bring it up to the high standards of service-provider networks.

Network service chaining and service function chaining uses software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities connecting a series of virtualized network services within the same network flow.

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

Every six months or so, the OpenStack community seems to swing between euphoria and despair – depending on the amount of progress being made in deploying OpenStack in production

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Huawei is gaining share in the global technology market and beginning to use open source as a strategic weapon.

The threat of white box switches has cast a shadow over big network equipment vendors for years, as the combination of Moore’s Law and economies of scale provides merchant

The end user base hopes that virtualization across all SDx platforms will result in more open, flexible, cost-effective and scalable environments. They don’t just want something that’s cheaper –

Several key industry changes are driving the creation of a new class of converged data center infrastructure. Read this article to explore the essence of those changes & the

In the past few years, as the SDN and NV market have evolved from PowerPoint concepts to working products, the market has matured into a multibillion-dollar business.

Read about the programmatic & policy-based future of security. Right here, right now.

Learn about the attributes of virtual security: micro-segmentation, visibility, and Programmatic Policy Enforcement with this article.

These are the toughest operational challenges an IT managers should watch out for in the shift to network virtualization.

They may be your fault.

The SDxCentral research team dug into dozens of network virtualization customer case studies and use cases. We found one common characteristic emerging as a driver for many customer deployments:

What do you need to do to make sure your data center is ready for today's security challenges?

2015 was no stranger to security breaches, so we have to wonder: What needs to change?

Cloud security company Zscaler Inc. is the latest to join the "Unicorn" club -- private venture-backed companies with valuations of $1 billion or better -- with a $100 million

Plexxi Inc., a Nashua, N.H.-based startup that is building a Software Defined Networking (SDN) optical switch, is back in the spotlight with the release of a new product, the

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) startup Pica8 has won a deal to supply white-box switches to build the network fabric at the TouIX Internet exchange, based in Toulouse, France. The Pica8