A merger of medium-sized data-center providers indicates that use of hybrid cloud services and Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to fuel growth in the data-center market, as larger enterprises

Cisco Systems Inc. reported strong earnings and profit for its fiscal Q4 and FY2014, beating Wall Street expectations by a few pennies for the quarter. But its shares and

A group of VMware alumni have launched Platform9, a cloud networking management platform designed to give private cloud networks the look, feel, and functionality of public cloud networks such

A new flavor of Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization -- one that is delivered via the cloud -- is ready to shake up both the service provider and WAN

Davra Networks came out of stealth mode this week, with a plan that seems to be a public relations dream. Take the Internet of Things (Iot) and combine it

Afore Solutions, a cloud security startup based in Ottawa, Ontario, has locked up another deal in cloud security technology, adding a partnership with Microsoft's Bitlocker encryption to the mix.

Earlier this week, Ciena launched the 8700 Packetwave, an important new line of optical networking boxes aimed at solving the challenges of handling the boom in cloud applications and

Bethany Mayer discusses HP's new NFV obsession, how the company is already making money on NFV, and why OpenDaylight is suddenly a bigger priority.

The exciting part of Software Defined Networking (SDN) is that it has the potential to shake up the current networking technology system and be revolutionary, not just evolutionary. One

It's fun watching large techno-conglomerates spin "open source" technology, the free code that could kill them. That's why Hewlett-Packard's (HPQ) announcement yesterday that it would invest $1B into cloud

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

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

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

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

I'm back from Open Networking Summit (ONS), where I was briefed by many companies, did some television with the classy guys over at SiliconANGLE and theCUBE, and heard many

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,

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

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

In this exclusive interview, SDNCentral talks to CableLabs about their recent implementation of a new southbound protocol on the OpenDaylight controller and the success of their proof-of-concept with the

No, Huawei isn't exiting the U.S. enterprise and data-center markets. In fact, as COO Jane Li explains, the company has stong ambitions when it comes to the cloud, the

Check out our latest interview in our NFV Interview Series. We're speaking with Wes George of Time Warner Cable about how SDN and NFV fit into a cable MSO's

A few weeks ago I caught up with Scott Raney, a partner with Redpoint Ventures focusing on IT and consumer technology. He is knowledgable in cloud computing, on-demand software,

BOSTON -- Plexxi, a data networking company based in the Boston area, may be the zen startup of data networking -- it is both "hot" and quiet at the

In joining the OpenDaylight Project as its first executive director, Neela Jacques got to hear a lot — a whole lot — about why the open-source SDN effort is