The Contrail acquisition has polarized Juniper to the point where engineers have been steadily leaving, according to some sources. Among the reasons: an allegedly vicious rant by CTO Pradeep

Well, it's closer than Xsigo was, anyway. Oracle has signed a deal to acquire Corente, a New Jersey-based startup that manages cloud-based and distributed services, allowing for tricks like

To say it's been a big year for SDN and NFV would be beyond an understatement. Here's our look at some of the most-watched and most-talked-about stories of 2013,

NFV has enjoyed a great year of popularity, now comes the hard part. As carriers and vendors start tinkering, they're learning about the obstacles — small ones and really

As CEO Kevin Johnson prepares to step down, it's hardly surprising to see one of his top lieutenants leave as well. Bob Muglia was enlisted from Microsoft to help

Policy enforcement is hot. ServiceMesh does policy enforcement. But instead of getting acquired by a hip Silicon Valley house, ServiceMesh is in the hands of 54-year-old CSC. The startup's

Taken literally (and assuming proper context and translation), CEO Ren Zhengfei just said Huawei is giving up on the United States market altogether. A company statement makes it sound

Amid this week's news: NFV makes progress, as shown by NSN and CloudNFV; ScaleXtreme debuts Advanced Cloud Management, targeting enterprise users new to public clouds; Extreme Networks gains more

SC13 features some optical technology and a bit of SDN; Riverbed grooms a new image; Internet2's next big project is a hybrid cloud for universities; Ixia announces some switches

Kicking off a short series of articles about white-box switching, we talk with CEOs JR Rivers and James Liao about how Cumulus and Pica8 see this market. It's not

Kevin Johnson's successor will be Shaygan Keradpir, who's taking the CEO spot on Jan. 1. He's been at Barclays, the kind of high-powered enterprise that companies like Juniper want

Here you'll find links to our Cisco/Insieme coverage (so far), which dominated the week. The OpenStack Summit took place on the other side of the world, creating a news

The controllerless top-of-rack F64 is ready for general availability, so Pluribus has decided it's ready for a new CEO. Fourteen-year Cisco veteran Kumar Srikantan is tasked with building Netvisor's

Big Switch co-founder Guido Appenzeller is becoming CTO as the company brings in Douglas Murray, who's been running the Asia/Pacific business at Juniper. He's the one tasked with leading

We've picked a handful of industry names (some more seriously than others) to fill Kevin Johnson's shoes. The key is that Juniper has to choose a leader — and

The battle against overlay networks is on. As Cisco prepares its Insieme launch, Big Switch is starting beta tests for its 'P+V' strategy for unifying physical and virtual networks.

Rackspace takes a swipe at Pivotal's PaaS; Pica8 loves the command-line interface (sort of); Ixia's CEO becomes the latest false-resume story; Huawei pushes for SDN in the enterprise; Transmode

Actually, is it really NFV's fault that MobileNext tanked? Analysts didn't think Juniper's product for the LTE mobile-network core ever had much of a chance, but Juniper can now

Telcos' OSS and BSS systems don't exactly have a hip, up-to-date image. That's going to become a problem as SDN emerges, upending everything the old software knows about the

Cisco admits what's been known for a while: White-box switches really are a threat. Elsewhere in the week, OpenFlow 1.3 starts showing up everywhere and the optical networking industry

Why wasn't Cisco listed among VMware's NSX partners? Candidly, Cisco admits it doesn't agree with NSX. But Trey Layton, CTO of the VCE joint venture, says that doesn't mean

This year's VMware confab advanced the state of SDN today and hinted at what to worry about tomorrow. Here's Matt's take not only on NSX and Cisco, but on

No, Tom Edsall didn't spill the beans about what the Cisco spin-in is doing. But his Hot Interconnect talk did bring up some pertinent points about what's missing from

Calient Raises $27M to Bring Optical to the Data Center