Several key industry changes are driving the creation of a new class of converged data center infrastructure. Read this article to explore the essence of those changes & the

MWC 2016 should provide some guideposts to where NFV might go in 2016.

Learn about the attributes of virtual security: micro-segmentation, visibility, and Programmatic Policy Enforcement with this article.

User feedback, both through primary interviews and SDxCentral surveys, indicates that both enterprises and service providers are interested in network functions virtualization (NFV).

What do you need to do to make sure your data center is ready for today's security challenges?

Here's what won't happen to clouds, containers, and Cisco in 2016.

The GEN15 event showed service providers at a crossroads with SDN and NFV.

Service providers are starting to embrace container technology to deliver more dynamic, distributed applications

Huge bets by AT&T and Verizon don't point to a happy ending for equipment suppliers.

NFV must move beyond that familiar, ubiquitous ETSI diagram.

In March, The Rayno Report told you about an exciting new market developing for service-provider software called Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO). We projected the total opportunity for LSO technologies

The Rayno Report held another one of our social events on CrowdChat, LinkedIn, and Twitter on July 27. The topic was #NFV, or Network Functions Virtualization. The event covered

Scrappy, Dublin-based startup UBIqube has landed a nice research-and-development gig in South Korea. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has picked UBIqube’s MSActivator Framework as a technology for

Alcatel-Lucent today introduced its Network Services Platform (NSP), a Software Defined Networking (SDN) provisioning and control system that automatically manages and balances bandwidth and network services over several different

BOSTON -- NEC's Netcracker division today released an upgrade of its telecom software suite, Netcracker 10, which is tackling the evolving convergence of Operations Support Systems (OSS), Billing Support

Verizon today announced its long-awaited Software Defined Network (SDN) strategy, which includes almost all of its incumbent equipment suppliers but lacks details about how this strategy will be executed.

As the shares of cybersecurity companies zoom to new heights, there may be good reason: The topic of information and network security remains the number one issue for customers

TIBURON, Calif. — Not surprisingly, a VMware technology executive says that container technology is not a threat to VMware's virtual machine (VM) franchise, because customers are going to use

Martin Taylor, the Chief Technical Officer of Metaswitch Networks, has been working in software protocols and networking for more than 20 years. He joined Metaswitch in 2004 after pioneering

(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

It's happening! Two large organizations supporting service-provider technology efforts, the MEF and the TM Forum, have agreed to collaborate on programs to push new technology for orchestrating and coordinating

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is gaining traction in mobile networks, and mobile infrastructure startup Affirmed Networks is emerging as one of the leaders.

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.