Juniper's Q1 earnings and Q2 forecast didn't rock the boat, giving new CEO Shaygan Kheradpir a chance to claim the Integrated Operating Plan is rolling smoothly. It's possible Juniper

Not surprisingly, CEO Douglas Murray is tapping his alma mater, Juniper, to flesh out Big Switch Networks' new management team. Rajeev Gupta is arriving from there to develop the

A proposal to link OpenContrail to OpenDaylight is Juniper's first contribution to the SDN collective. It might be a sign that Juniper, after months of being a wallflower, is

In this week's news: BTI gets a CEO; ConteXtream and Guavus team up; Huawei starts an OpenDaylight testing center in Shenzhen; and OpenDaylight offers student internships for the summer.

The good news is that Juniper's layoffs didn't comprise 10% of the company. Juniper will be cutting 6%, however, and will also drop its ADC ambitions as CEO Shaygan

Yes, it's very early to be sizing up NFV. But you've got to start somewhere, and the process can highlight what questions are still lingering, as Dell'Oro Group found

Layer 4-7 startup Embrane has apparently reached that point where it's time to bring in a more seasoned CEO. Bill Burns, who left Spirent in September, will be taking

Carrier Ethernet equipment can be a prosperous niche, but Overture decided last year that the future was it software. It's now trying to establish an SDN and orchestration framework

Telecom equipment vendor BTI had an eventful 2013 as it started targeting data-center interconnect and plowed money into R&D. Now the company has another infusion of cash, its third

It's a different kind of March Madness, as sources make their picks for the size of Juniper's pending restructuring. The most common guess is a 10 percent layoff, with

A very new startup with a CEO out of Facebook is providing the control plane for an architecture that could help data centers make use of all-optical switches —

Shaygan Kheradpir is getting high marks from analysts, some of whom met the Juniper CEO for the first time just before Mobile World Congress. They think he's got a

The Shaygan Kheradpir era kicks into gear, as the new Juniper CEO announces his new operating plan. A new product philosophy, a tightened customer focus, and of course, cost

A $75M legal settlement with Brocade is in the past, and A10 thinks it's now ready to take on the public market. The company's IPO filing reveals some quick

Bethany Mayer has been highly visible as the head of HP's networking business and its aggressive push into SDN and OpenFlow. Now, HP is reportedly calling on her to

Lanham Napier is walking way from Rackspace after about 14 years, saying the job of running the $1.5B-a-year company was wearing him down. His departure means we'll see the

The implications of Microsoft's cloudy new CEO; more pressure on Juniper from Elliott Management; NEC gives part of ProgrammableFlow to OpenDaylight; Big Switch adds another former Juniper exec.

A bit of virtual knowhow has paid off for Shenick in the form of an acquisition. Aeroflex sells test equipment to the wireless industry and will now own TeraVM,

This open-source thing might really be catching on. The OCP Summit V held this week brought some heavy hitters to the stage, including Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, and Andy

As IT changes, so must its culture — so said a panel of experts convened at a Dell event last week. Replacing the former hordes of computer science majors

Three weeks into his new job, Juniper CEO Shaygan Kheradpir delivers his first earnings call and outlines a restrucutring plan to come. More layoffs seem to be in the

After stepping down as CEO, Guido Appenzeller was supposed to take the title of CTO. Plans change, though, and it's now Rob Sherwood taking the CTO role, with Appenzeller

A departure in the Marvell family; Egenera finds the SDN world waking up to Microsoft; Freescale open-sources a controller; and OpenDaylight adds members and contemplates what comes after Hydrogen.

VMware finally gets a CTO, a year after Steve Herrod left; Cyan and Procera won't bring post-holiday cheer to Q4 results; CloudNFV expands its potential 'as-a-service' arsenal; Microsoft might