The SDxCentral research team dug into dozens of network virtualization customer case studies and use cases. We found one common characteristic emerging as a driver for many customer deployments:

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.

2015 was no stranger to security breaches, so we have to wonder: What needs to change?

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

Prediction: Eventually, they will.

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.

Skyport Systems, the startup building a new secure server infrastructure for cloud applications, has appointed Art Gilliland as its new CEO.

Information security technology is undergoing a generational shift. Once thought of as a collection of point solutions, security technology is moving to the cloud, where a coordinated suite of

Cloud security company Zscaler Inc. is the latest to join the "Unicorn" club -- private venture-backed companies with valuations of $1 billion or better -- with a $100 million

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

Supporting a family of five, I continue to suffer from mobile-phone sticker shock. The cost of supplying my family with devices, data plans, and services is climbing close to

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

Plexxi Inc., a Nashua, N.H.-based startup that is building a Software Defined Networking (SDN) optical switch, is back in the spotlight with the release of a new product, the

Last week Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO) announced it is buying OpenDNS for the healthy price tag of $625 million. It's nice if you can get it. The deal shows Cisco

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) startup Pica8 has won a deal to supply white-box switches to build the network fabric at the TouIX Internet exchange, based in Toulouse, France. The Pica8

Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET) founder and CEO Jayshree Ullal has been selling Arista shares at a ferocious pace over the last six months, dumping about $60 million worth of

Silver Peak Systems, which has been known primarily as a Wide-Area Network (WAN) optimization player over the past few years, is adding Software-Defined WAN technology to its portfolio with

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) startup Viptela has landed Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel) as a customer, where Viptela's technology will be used to deliver the Singtel ConnectPlus SD-WAN service.

This week in San Francisco, Apple is running its Worldwide Developers Conference, which affords it even more ways to hog the technology news cycle by announcing many new tech

Airvana, long-time provider of mobile technology, is using Cloud RAN (C-RAN) mobile technology for small cells to provide a higher bandwidth 4G connection and more reliable wireless coverage in

Apple Inc. is building its own high-speed network to deliver higher performance for its cloud services and may start using white-box switches, according to Bloomberg.