I've been banging the table about how network security is the hottest application for Software Defined Networking (SDN). This week, Big Switch Networks confirms this trend with the release

The Rayno Report held another one of our social events on CrowdChat, LinkedIn, and Twitter on March 24. The topic was #sdwan, or Software-defined WAN (SD WAN). The event

About 13 years ago I received a tip from some Silicon Valley insiders that I should check out this "hot" new startup, Timetra, which was blazing new trails in

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

Pluribus has released the next iteration of its network virtualization software, Netvisor 2.2, as well as results from the Securities Technologies Analysis Center (STAC) benchmark associated with one of

Monitoring and analytics technology will be a big part of building a more automated and adaptive computing infrastructure, as we detailed in our Future of the Software Defined Data

What's fun about being a journalist/analyst (or "Janalyst" as I call it) is you get to meet lots of people -- and learn new things. Sometimes these things are

You can't throw a stone on the Internet without hitting some big data. But what's interesting about big data, and its cousin, analytics, is that the technology has hundreds

The Broncos might not have done so well on Sunday, but Extreme Networks had a good Super Bowl. The networking vendor has rolled out its analytics platform in partnership

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

Last week, Cisco Systems (CSCO) once again tried to lay claim to the Internet of Things (IoT), and they put a huge number on it. Cisco CEO John Chambers

Speaking with CloudPhysics Founder and CEO John Blumenthal, you get the sense that the modern data center, which supplies all that cloud-computing power, is a total mess.

"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty,"

Here's a company to watch: Goodman Networks. Yesterday the wireless network builder announced it is buying Design Build Technologies, a wireless construction company that builds and maintains communications towers

In the age of persistent NSA monitoring, you could get increasingly paranoid and decide to become a luddite. Or you could embrace the fact that in the modern world

Breaking News: Big Switch adds Big Names to Executive Team

Have you noticed that mobile networks are becoming increasingly commoditized and more efficient for the consumer? Years ago, text-messaging was a value-added service, now bundles of unlimited text messages

Oh, this is fantastic, Oracle is suing Google. Larry Ellison vs. Eric Schmidt -- the Alpha Male vs. the Science Geek. This is going to be very interesting!

RightNow Technologies, a scrappy CRM company that is starting to become a more serious competitor with CRM giants such as SAP, Oracle's Siebel, and Salesforce, just announced a solid

There is a surge of startups trying to address the management of smartphones in enterprise networks, which is surely going to be a massive issue. If you think about

Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. are set to gain on the market open after a strong earnings release and encouraging words about the global economy from CEO John Chambers.