With the Arista IPO imminent, one might be wondering what's happening with the next crop off networking vendors. The valuations of many startups the Software Defined Networking (SDN) market

The pedigree and revenue growth of Arista Networks, which in recent years has become one of the leading data switching companies to compete with rival Cisco Systems (CSCO), is

The Rayno Report has released its first premium report, "The Software Defined Network Revolution: An Ecosystem Report," which details how innovation in Software Defined Networking (SDN) will reshuffle billions

Please, Mister Regulator Man, let's not let the AT&T and DirectTV deal happen. I hever want to buy my TV service from the phone company.

We believe that in order to fully reap the benefits of the technology, organizations have to address the issue of NFV performance.

The race to combine powerful hardware and Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology continues, as startup Pluribus Networks and the $1B+ server intergrator Super Micro Computer Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI) today

Roy and I often are asked that the killer NFV application is, or which app will be the first to mass deployment. Virtual firewalls (vFWs) are catching our attention,

Telecom turnaround artist John Scanlon is back, this time as the CEO of 365 Data Centers, which re-launched today with a new corporate identiy and a focus on the

The plot thickens. Software Defined Networking (SDN) startup Big Switch today announced a strategic partnership Dell, in which Dell will add Big Switch software to the list of installed

Cumulus Networks is emerging as one of hottest Software Defined Networking (SDN) startups with a valuation recently estimated in the $300 million range, according to research by the Rayno

In a broad counter-move to the growing momentum behind open networking protocols and a raft of Software Defined Networking (SDN) startups, Cisco today announced its own open protocol, called

Arista IPO: No Joke! Arista appears set to file S-1 before April 1st.

There's a downside to all of that big data, social media, and Netflix downloading: Energy and carbon. Data centers are massive consumers of energy, which is a huge component

After years of practicing Stuart Smalley-type self-affirmations, the optical industry is feeling better about itself again. With the Optical Fiber Conference (OFC) under way in San Francisco, optimistic reports

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Open Networking Summit (ONS) -- Last night, having digested some of the first keynote of the Open Networking Summit (along with some decent lamb kebabs

From Mobile World Congress, a chat with Sanqi Li, CTO of the carrier network business group, about the scaling challenges of SDN, the motivations for NFV at the edge,

I don't use WhatsApp, the communications app Facebook just bought for $19 billion. My iPhone is broken and I have to wait another month for my Soviet-style telecom contract

With cloud-computing and massive data-center virtualization technology all the rage, maybe it's time to virtualize the wide array of storage technologies. Atlantis Computing, a venture-backed startup focused on virtualization

You can't throw a stone on the Internet without hitting some big data. But what's interesting about big data, and its cousin, analytics, is that the technology has hundreds

The Broncos might not have done so well on Sunday, but Extreme Networks had a good Super Bowl. The networking vendor has rolled out its analytics platform in partnership

The open revolution continues. Over the past week, there's been another surge of networking and data-center deals focused on open networking, open source, and Software Defined Networking (SDN). It's

Most people are challenged by the math of Google's (GOOG) jettisoning Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.9B (it bought it in 2012 $12B). There are lots of melodramatic reactions

You heard about this thing called Net Neutrality. There was a big court decision this week. Is it the beginning of the end or are the journalists just being

SDN and NFV Technology Trends to Watch in 2014