“Clearly, Intel realizes that it needs breakthrough performance and efficiency to go up against Nvidia,” noted Moor Insight Analyst Karl Freund.

Exablaze’s field programmable gate array-based devices play into Cisco’s intent-based networking strategy.

The company today said it hired Raj Yavatkar as the new CTO. Like Koley, Yavatkar previously headed cloud networking at Google.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said he expects Carbon Black combined with VMware’s “security-driven value-add” networking and cloud products to be a $1 billion business this year.

Edge computing is a dispersion or distribution of the cloud and latency is the driving force of this evolution, said MEF CTO Pascal Menezes.

“Everybody does automation,” Extreme’s Dan DeBacker said. “But we believe we’re the only ones that have it embedded in the switch.”

MEF’s community has grown about 70% to more than 200 organizations during the last 18 months, and it expects to double that number by the end of 2020.

Technology prototypes tested and validated by the group are now commercially available and being deployed in multiple networks.

Digital Reality dropped billions on European expansion; Ciena closed its acquisition of Centina; plus the latest VC/M&A news from October.

Contrail Insights provides customers with historical and real-time visibility, giving them greater insight into the data center operations.

Digital Realty wants to unseat data center heavyweight Equinix. And it plans to do this by solving what it calls “the data gravity problem.”

In a 100 switch deployment, Pica8's pricing is roughly 98.5% lower than Cisco's, the vendor claims.

Volterra’s SaaS-based platform can be deployed across multiple public clouds and edge locations.

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The report is based on a survey of 505 IT leaders and 1,566 network strategists across 13 countries.

“Our chip enables other cloud vendors to compete against Amazon in a much better way,” Pensando CEO Prem Jain said.

“We believe this is another proof point of the growing presence of open networking and SDN in the market,” said Dell EMC’s Drew Schulke.

The company raised $35 million in Series C funding that was led by Goldman Sachs, which is one of the company's most prolific customers.

A company executive explained that its ability to launch a greenfield network near the beginning of a technology cycle provides the carrier with a significant advantage against its rivals.

Karen Walker joined Intel as SVP and CMO; Equinix welcomed Justin Dustzadeh as CTO; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

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The trial with network partner Calix used SDN to bond four multi-gig fiber optic channels.

The startup says “five of the top five” cloud and colocation service providers are testing its Luxon software-defined interconnect platform.

The security unicorn says its technology is more effective than other SDN or hypervisor-based segmentation like Cisco ACI with Tetration and VMware’s NSX.