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.

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

Gartner's recent 2018 Magic Quadrant report for WAN Edge Infrastructure provides a good overview of the SD-WAN market but its viewpoints may be a bit old-fashioned.

IT organizations complain that the lack of SDN-specific skills among engineers is resulting in a slow transition to virtualization but engineers don’t have much incentive to get those skills.

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

Google, nVidia, IBM face a new formidable AI challenger in Huawei.

European test lab EANTC tested several SD-WAN vendors solutions and compared their scalability and performance.

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?

Flat networks make it possible to centrally provision resources without having to reconfigure policies.

Networking professionals no longer can only have a limited scope of skills. The addition of other certifications will mean more career growth and more pay.

The scale and impact of Kubernetes was obvious at the recent OSCON 2018 conference in Portland, Oregon.

From Adtran to ZTE, cable and telco vendors alike are beginning to reap the benefits of SDN and virtualization with the development of software-defined access solutions and propositions.

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.

The combination of edge computing, 5G RAN, and low latency will deliver a faster 5G experience.

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

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