Is curated open-source still open source?

Expect network connectivity between clouds to get more complicated.

IT operations teams need to get ahead of Kubernetes deployments that will soon span the extended enterprise.

Try as you might, there’s no avoiding 5G (real and fake), IoT, SD-WAN, or AI.

In 2019 SD-WAN solutions will converge toward a universal archetype.

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?

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.

The analyst firm also predicts that by 2023 more than 90 percent of WAN edge infrastructure initiatives will be based on SD-WAN.

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.

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.

WiFi, fixed access, and satellites are promising technologies that operators should consider as viable alternatives to fiber or microwave for 5G backhaul.

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.

Automation is getting a lot of buzz right now but operators should only use automation if it helps reduce the complexity of the network or compensates for human limitations.

There are many reasons to deploy a network virtualization overlay. But the biggest advantage to an NV overlay is that it can extend the capabilities of legacy networks.

OSCON 2018 did a great job of highlighting women and people of color in their programming.

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

Many companies find that deploying a network virtualization overlay makes more sense because of the ROI.

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.

The idea that SD-WAN will make MPLS obsolete plays on the frustrations of enterprise IT professionals that are dissatisfied with their current WAN provider and want to kick them