Expect network connectivity between clouds to get more complicated.

IT operations teams need to get ahead of Kubernetes deployments that will soon span the extended enterprise.

In 2019 SD-WAN solutions will converge toward a universal archetype.

A collaborative approach from service providers might yield better results than one that seeks to disempower the vendors.

Service meshes could displace many L4-7 networking functions. But will they?

DPDK has extended its reach beyond packet processing and could be a universal API for other acceleration functions needed for effective NFV.

Achieving standard, commodity uCPEs will be a longer journey than anticipated.

To succeed in SD-WAN, service providers will need to transform their organization and improve their selling skills. Can they do it?

Companies are rebranding their SDN products as SD-WAN, dynamic networking, agile networking, or cloud-native network to avoid being part of the SDN hype.

The analyst firm also predicts that by 2023 more than 90 percent of WAN edge infrastructure initiatives will be based on SD-WAN.

Express lanes to clouds and internet exchange points will drive the next stage of SD-WAN competition.

It's been more than six years since NFV became a reality but for service providers the transformation is far from over.

Some companies argue that providing access to a POP network via cloud gateways is a competitive advantage.

At the SD-WAN Summit 2018 in Paris, one of the more contentious debates was which will come first: next-generation firewall or new SD-WAN capabilities?

There are many reasons to deploy a network virtualization overlay. But the biggest advantage to an NV overlay is that it can extend the capabilities of legacy networks.

Many companies find that deploying a network virtualization overlay makes more sense because of the ROI.

Half of container users started less than 12 months ago, providing new blood for AWS, Azure, Google, Docker, VMware, Red Hat to fight over.

The latest cloud orchestration report indicates that CIOs, cloud architects, and other IT infrastructure managers need to educate themselves on an increasingly wide variety of options.

By 2019, 69 percent of enterprise IT organizations will be trying to manage some type of multi-cloud environment.

Data protection is one of the first applications most IT organizations will deploy across a hybrid cloud.

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Thanks to rise of APIs IT organizations are crafting more modern approaches to data protection.

Network virtualization overlays will determine winner of hybrid cloud computing race.

Networking technologies are now starting to be incorporated into DevOps making it easier for DevOps and IT to work together.