It's time to serve up year-in-review content appetizers for your New Year's Eve party. So break out the bubbly and read up on some of our favorite topics: Software

Steve Herrod is a pioneer in cloud computing and virtualization. He's probably best known as the former Senior Vice President of Research and Development at VMware, the fast-growing virtualization

Networking technology provider Infinera (INFN) today announced that it is shipping its Cloud Xpress product, a small optical networking platform targeted at datacenter connectivity. Cloud Express is part of

Network security specialist Palo Alto Networks (PANW) is rapidly climbing the market-share charts, enjoying quick revenue growth as cloud operations drive new network security installations, according to networking hardware

Networking is on the verge of big changes in Palo Alto Networks' favor, co-founder Nir Zuk says in this discussion about firewall virtualization, cloud security, and the future of

Networking technology provider Ciena (CIEN) is looking to step up the development of the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) market with the introduction of Agility Matrix, a broad platform for

F5 veteran Karl Triebes gives a wide-ranging interview on the biggest network security threats of the moment, and the evolving approaches to combatting them.

As you may know, sustainability is emerging as a key component of cloud technology and data centers. Whether it's Facebook, Amazon, or BMW, companies are in search of more

Washington D.C. -- Wedge Networks, a cloud security startup based in Calgary, Alberta, this week launched Cloud Network Defense, a cloud-based security platform that uses deep packet inspection (DPI)

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Verizon is working on a large trial of "white boxes" that use commodity server technology to deliver next-generation networking and telecom services, according to several sources.

It has not been a great earnings season for the networking hardware equipment makers, especially those in the service provider segment. All through the food chain, from chips to

Hybrid clouds sound warm and cuddly, and apparently everybody wants them. But rigging up a hybrid cloud -- which connects disaparate public and private cloud resources -- is harder

BigPanda officially launched its IT incident management product today and announced $7 million in Series A funding from Mayfield and Sequoia.

EMC has bought out most of Cisco's interest in the VCE joint venture for cloud computing technology, putting another twist in the rapidly shifting technology relationships in the cloud

This week there were a number of interesting developments in cloud infrastructure circles, including a cloud deal or two and Hewlett-Packard's new strategy to "vaporize" data centers.

The Software Defined Networking (SDN) movement has a few core leaders that have been around since it sprouted from the grass-roots academic environments of Stanford University and Berkeley, where

Software Defined Networking startup Pica8, which was named as one of the leaders in our SDN Revolution Report, has been busy lately. Last week, the company announced $12.5M in

Every day we read about a massive new data breach. Today it's AT&T and Yahoo. This comes after huge security incidents at Target, Home Depot, and JP Morgan in

SAN FRANCISCO -- This week I spent some time at Oracle World, marveling at the vast Oracle empire, sipping cappuccino next to the Oracle America's Cup yacht, and watching

Pica8, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup developing "white box" switching systems using Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology, today announced a $12.5M Series B funding round from a group of

Cisco announced a deal to buy Metacloud yesterday, affirming two big trends in cloud computing: 1) Private cloud and 2) OpenStack.

Have you stayed awake late at night, staring at the ceiling, wondering, "What is Facebook's Wedge technology, and what does it mean?"

Big telecom players are once again eyeing data-center acquisitions. Word on the street -- or at least on Bloomberg -- is that CenturyLink (CTL) is looking to acquire Rackspace

This week is the week of VMworld, VWware's conference baby, the show where the world gathers to see the future of data center and virtualization technologies. I wasn't able