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

I don't use WhatsApp, the communications app Facebook just bought for $19 billion. My iPhone is broken and I have to wait another month for my Soviet-style telecom contract

Is Cisco Systems (CSCO) management following the Carl Icahn plan? It may be looking at what the famous hedge-fund raider has been up to at Apple (AAPL), as he

With cloud-computing and massive data-center virtualization technology all the rage, maybe it's time to virtualize the wide array of storage technologies. Atlantis Computing, a venture-backed startup focused on virtualization

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

The open revolution continues. Over the past week, there's been another surge of networking and data-center deals focused on open networking, open source, and Software Defined Networking (SDN). It's

There's been a crazy media circus around NFL football player Richard Sherman, which culminated with the Seattle Seahawks cornerback on national TV describing ESPN's Skip Bayless as a "cretin"

Funny how some forgotten stocks suddenly becomes popular when an activist hedge-fund manager makes a play. Such is the case with Juniper Networks (JNPR), which yesterday was subject to

This morning Apple Inc. established more world domination in the apps market, announcing it had generated over $10 billion in revenue in the Apps Store in 2013.

SDN and NFV Technology Trends to Watch in 2014

In looking for a "Big Themes" to latch on to for 2014, I keep coming back to open source -- and what it means for just about every industry.

No, Huawei isn't exiting the U.S. enterprise and data-center markets. In fact, as COO Jane Li explains, the company has stong ambitions when it comes to the cloud, the

You would think it's just a sleepy Monday before New Year's Eve, but for large networking technology vendors worrying about their Software Defined Networking (SDN) strategy, it may not

Check out our latest interview in our NFV Interview Series. We're speaking with Wes George of Time Warner Cable about how SDN and NFV fit into a cable MSO's

On a recent swing through Boston's revitalized startup zone, I got to visit Acquia, a startup that has lots of IPO potential for 2014. Acquia has ridden success of

So much for fears about the flash-storage market. Nimble Storage (NMBL) boomed in its IPO on Friday, rising 60% above its initial public offering IPO price. This morning the

What can a Cisco investor do? Wait, and hope the stock stops dropping. The stock, now in a bad downtrend, dropped again this week both before and after Cisco

A few weeks ago I caught up with Scott Raney, a partner with Redpoint Ventures focusing on IT and consumer technology. He is knowledgable in cloud computing, on-demand software,

Now that everyone in the US has recovered from their Thanksgiving dinners--and hopefully worked all those extra calories off--we're announcing winners of our Turkeys of SDN competition. Read on

BOSTON -- Plexxi, a data networking company based in the Boston area, may be the zen startup of data networking -- it is both "hot" and quiet at the

Continuing the strong trend of a volatile and aggressively traded optical sector, optical-networking component maker Finisar raised eyebrows with a second-quarter fiscal year earnings release that beat estimates and

While the frothy world of speculative excess bubbles up in social-media IPOs, Tesla, and Bitcoin, the same cannot be said for the old-school networking business, where hardware margins and

With the Thanksgiving season upon us here in the United States, we thought it might be a good time to run a fun little competition at SDNCentral on the