Big technology shifts like cloud take at least 10 years. That’s why the shift to the telco cloud, led by NFV, will require at least a decade of patience.

VMware says it is looking at East-West encryption inside the data center, adding another layer of security to the SDDC.

The telco NFV cloud has different characteristics from the enterprise cloud – with a higher emphasis on reliability, connectivity, and specific applications.

Network virtualization (NV) can increase IT agility, according to emerging case studies and user feedback.

The key to success of NFV will come soon as operators evaluate the benefits of the NFV business transformation in early rollouts including vCPE.

VMware is pursuing two container strategies that call for integrating Photon OS and its VIC with NSX for containers.

The data center is driving toward a more software-centric security model and security performance in NFV will be key.

With The Linux Foundation taking charge of Open vSwitch, a new future for the open source project takes shape.

IT experts are increasingly looking at securing the cloud using SDN technologies, which add policy awareness and features such as microsegmentation.

Network virtualization and SDN technology can add to network security by enabling a secure DMZ in the data center.

Hardware acceleration can boost adoption of network function virtualization (NFV) technology by providing a more powerful platform.

With higher traffic demands on the S/Gi-LAN in mobile networks, converged platforms will help reduce the costs of processing IP traffic.

Network virtualization (NV) is starting to blur the lines between the LAN and the WAN.

The combination of new network hardware acceleration techniques and SDN is driving a new era of networking.

Virtualization of the S/Gi-LAN in mobile networks through the use of converged platforms can improve security.

While 5G standards or definitions don’t yet exist, it’s becoming clear that the technology has the chance to become a big driver of the network virtualization and software-defined networking

New networking approaches such as SDN and NFV will require a balance between hardware and software.

Edsall discusses what 'application-centric' really means and how webscale players change the industry.

Edsall discusses what 'application-centric' really means and how webscale players change the industry.

Docker containers are clearly transforming nearly every aspect of IT these days – and networking is no exception.

With higher traffic demands on the SGi/Gi-LAN in mobile networks, the move towards converged platforms enables increased efficiency in processing IP traffic.

The Docker platform for Linux containers is growing fast -- but what does it mean for the ecosystem?

While the SDN market isn’t taking off as much as everybody would like, it’s being implemented in many customer deployments for key data center use cases.

With users citing container networking technology as a challenge, it opens the door for virtualization overlay technology to help.