Service meshes could displace many L4-7 networking functions. But will they?

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.

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.

From Adtran to ZTE, cable and telco vendors alike are beginning to reap the benefits of SDN and virtualization with the development of software-defined access solutions and propositions.

Network virtualization overlays will determine winner of hybrid cloud computing race.

The IT industry has a selection of tools for deploying containers. They can use a PaaS or a CaaS based on Kubernetes, Marathon, or Docker.

Amazon Web Services illustrates the growing importance of offloading network services from servers using NICs.

The rise of IT automation frameworks will force companies to rethink who in the IT organization will ultimately be responsible for networking.

The former Cisco exec likes the security aspect of Versa's SD-WAN.

As providers of container networking platforms jostle for position, the industry is eagerly awaiting the emergence of container networking interoperability.

Virtualization can help IT organizations break down the silos that exist between application developers and enable operations teams to deliver real-time IT.

VMware is pursuing two container strategies that call for integrating Photon OS and its VIC with NSX for containers.

Docker containers are clearly transforming nearly every aspect of IT these days – and networking is no exception.

Network service chaining and service function chaining uses software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities connecting a series of virtualized network services within the same network flow.

Every six months or so, the OpenStack community seems to swing between euphoria and despair – depending on the amount of progress being made in deploying OpenStack in production