Well, you didn't expect him to join Cisco, did you? Replaced as Big Switch CEO last year, Guido Appenzeller will continue the SDN fight, this time with an established

Apcera wants to build big, policy-aware hybrid clouds for the enterprise, but the 2-year-old company could use some help. Ericsson is not only providing funding but will help develop

In this week's roundup: more execs take the Juniper-to-Brocade trail, an open source router on the TODO list, a new forum for NFV, and Larry's new job at Oracle.

Small in cash but big in name, Eucalyptus brings HP some private-cloud savvy and former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, who will run HP's networking business.

SDN has become a 'battle of titans,' and Martin Casado is now a field general in that fight. He'll be working with sales teams on NSX, bringing Nicira's product

This week in SDN and NFV news: Facebook announced its testing for open Wedge switch design, while Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens resigns, and the SDN-related sales slowdown might

Docker containers, OpenStack applications, open hardware, and the Open Compute Project — VMware loves it all, CEO Pat Gelsinger says as VMworld kicks off in San Francisco.

The HP NFV effort might have just taken a hit, as SVP Bethany Mayer has been hired away as Ixia's new president and CEO.

Now Martin Casado is really the face of networking at VMware. He'll be the senior vice president of the Networking and Security business unit as Steve Mullaney departs. Meanwhile,

CEO Jayshree Ullal will take the mic on Thursday for Arista Networks' first-ever earnings report. Arista's growth rate in the past year has been superb, and analysts expect it

Cloud service providers needs standards for transporting services across different networks. But they can't wait years for these standards to emerge. Enter the CloudEthernet Forum and its DevOps-like approach.

CEO Pat Gelsinger delivers more chipper news about NSX during VMware's earnings. The signs of growth are nice, but no matter what Gelsinger thinks, Cisco and VMware aren't exactly

Remember Neoteris? Or Funk Software? Those Juniper acquisitions got folded into Junos Pulse — which just got sold for less than those deals cost, as Juniper enters the final

Bare-metal SDN isn't just for the 1%. Big Switch is launching its new flagship product, the Big Cloud Fabric, and is re-articulating its bare-metal SDN strategy. The theme now

In this week's SDN-related news: Meg Whitman takes the chair at HP; VMware expands its cloud reach in Asia, while BTI does the same in Europe; and Juniper and

Network virtualization will top the SDN news out of HP Discover. That might not be earth-shattering, but HP officials say the point is that their SDN story has stayed

Cisco had a lot to say about ACI at the recent Cisco Live, but it also had a lot to say about VMware's NSX, and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger

Analysts say router and switch growth has slowed or even stopped, and they don't think it's an anomaly. SDN is causing some buyers to hesitate, and the white-box movement

Even more ACI and APIC observations from Cisco Live 2014: ACI use cases, a bit of business analysis, some CEO self-reflection, and a renegade conference just down the street.

Well, duh, you might say. But consider: Even a year ago, the Cisco CEO wouldn't even utter 'SDN.' Now that Cisco believes its ACI can lead the market, Cisco

Check out our Weekly Roundup for Friday, May 9, for news on EMC’s plans for hyper-converged infrastructure, HP’s $1 billion open cloud investment, and a surprising departure from Cisco’s

Data-center automation is a real market with real demand. Opalis, acquired by Microsoft, showed us that. Now Opalis' chief architect and Nexenta's former CEO are back to update the

'2014 is going to make people cry.' It's not just the white box issue. Hyperscale customers such as Google are distorting the market and changing the competitive rules for

First it was Cumulus; now Dell has a deal to sell some of Big Switch's software. It's a blend of the revolutionary spirit of the startups tied to a