Newly released SDxCentral 2018 report on the VNF Ecosystem finds SD-WAN and vCPE are top use cases for NFV and the driving force behind service providers virtualizing their networks.

Our analysis posts provide a deeper dive on what certain trends mean to the industry. In 2017 these articles coveraged a wide swath of topics from the best tools

Defining a set of security and compliance policies is a key first step. But enforcing security policy is not as easy.

With machine learning, big data, cloud, and NFV initiatives invading the data center, there are implications for data center networking performance.

Network virtualization will allow companies to micro-segment traffic by application.

Organizations that implement network virtualization are starting to appreciate another advantage: It enables them to achieve compliance.

As open source NFV technologies mature, the rate of adoption should soar in 2017.

To foster NFV interoperability, many initiatives have launched to help organizations determine what NFV software is compatible.

It may soon be unnecessary to backhaul traffic to the data center.

The NV market continues to grow and evolve, supporting many different technologies and vendor platforms as customers look for the right mix

The industry seeks to address interoperability among network virtualization (NV) implementations, but getting networking vendors to work together remains a challenge.

We shouldn’t think of NFV as merely porting a cloud to the telcos. We need to understand that true NFV won't happen until we connect all the entities involved

The key to success of NFV will come soon as operators evaluate the benefits of the NFV business transformation in early rollouts including vCPE.

Virtualization of the S/Gi-LAN in mobile networks through the use of converged platforms can improve security.

While 5G standards or definitions don’t yet exist, it’s becoming clear that the technology has the chance to become a big driver of the network virtualization and software-defined networking

With users citing container networking technology as a challenge, it opens the door for virtualization overlay technology to help.

An in depth analysis of the implications of increased threats for network virtualization, cloud & security.

Several key industry changes are driving the creation of a new class of converged data center infrastructure. Read this article to explore the essence of those changes & the

MWC 2016 should provide some guideposts to where NFV might go in 2016.

Prediction: Eventually, they will.

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

Last night was the last call -- the last quarterly earnings call for Cisco CEO John Chambers. His legacy on Wall Street will be a masterful management of earnings

[Editor: This story was updated to add more details about sales of Cisco white-box Nexus switches to Facebook.]

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