(Warning: Disturbing and potentially offensive analysis of the telco hardware business ahead -- spanning four entire pages! Sedatives or perhaps stimulants may be needed, depending on whom you work

Illumio today announced it has raised a $100 million investment round from big-name investors to pursue its security solutions for virtualized environments.

The white-box world is growing in influence, so it's time to learn about what applications and use cases can take it to the next level. We'll be covering this

Security is emerging as one of Software Defined Networking's most important applications. In fact, it has the potential to combat the surging threat of cyber attacks on cloud services.

The Rayno Report held another one of our social events on CrowdChat, LinkedIn, and Twitter on March 24. The topic was #sdwan, or Software-defined WAN (SD WAN). The event

As I've been pointing out, the optical players have been going after the data-center market with a fervor. And the emergence of 100G optical as a data-center connectivity technology

The open-source craze continues. Cyanogen Inc., a company that builds an open-source flavor of the Android operating system (OS), has announced that it has raised $80 million in Series

The race to provide efficient and secure access to cloud apps continues. Google has approved Global Capacity as a Google Cloud Interconnect provider, expanding the number of operators that

The Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) drumbeat continues. CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) and Cyan (Nasdaq: CYNI) today announced that CenturyLink will use Cyan’s Blue Planet NFV Orchestrator to deliver NFV services

BARCELONA -- Mobile World Congress (MWC) -- Yes, 2015 will be a big year for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technology. Large global service providers are beginning to deploy revenue-driving

On February 25, the Rayno Report held another one of our riveting social chats streaming live on CrowdChat and Twitter. This one was on the topic of #whitebox. With

This week, private co-location and cloud services provider 365 Data Centers announced 2014 milestones that included double-digit and record quarterly sales growth, reflecting the strong demand in the Tier-2

Whitebox networking is all the rage. HP (NYSE: HPQ) last week announced it was teaming with Cumulus to deliver whiteboxes. And Cisco Systems (Nasdaq:CSCO) recently explained on a conference

"Webscale" cloud providers and the data-center market are all the rage for optical technology vendors these days. Ciena today announced two new chipsets targeting growth in these markets.

About 13 years ago I received a tip from some Silicon Valley insiders that I should check out this "hot" new startup, Timetra, which was blazing new trails in

Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) hit a new eight-year high, vaulting $2.30 (8%) in morning trading to $29.23, on a combination of positive factors during last night's

Cyan Inc. (Nasdaq: CYNI) is making a bid for the "webscale" datacenter market with the announcement of the N-Series, a 100 Gbit/s optical networking product line that is built

Shares of security-technology provider Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT) have been climbing as the company develops a new cloud security strategy. Fortinet has been teaming with service providers to provide private

UBIqube, a Dublin, Ireland-based startup focusing on orchestration software for the telecom industry, has quietly landed a deal with Japanese service provider giant NTT Group (NYSE: NTT). NTT will

Overture Networks yesterday announced a series of products designed to move service provider networks into the Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) future.

The Cloud WAN market is coming to a branch office near you, and it's going to shake up the way enterprise access gear and services is sold for many

Is it time to take a look at shares of Super Micro Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI)? The stock of the data-center infrastructure provider took a hit after the company announced

Pluribus announced today that it has landed a substantial Series D funding round of $50M led by Singapore sovereign wealth fund Temasek and including Ericsson as a strategic investor.

It's going to be a robust year for 2015, but not an entirely rosy one. Check out Roy Chua's 2015 predictions for NFV, service providers, and the enterprise.