SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup — December 20, 2013

Defending Cisco's SDN approach; OpenFlow 1.3 gets test support from Ixia; SolidFire attracts cloud vendors to flash storage at scale; CENX helps the OSS automates Etherent services; a new

Google and HP update public clouds; Metaswitch furthers its open-source IMS cause; Plexxi produces a new switch for its optical networks; Napatech goes public, although you wouldn't know it

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

In the headlines this week: Cisco's Q2 guidance causes a freakout; Nuage Networks names customers; EMC tries out this all-flash-storage thing; Amazon talks about its own storage ideas; and

As Cisco's Insieme launch showed, the network should be application-aware, and applications should be network-aware. The question is where to put the demarcation lines. Done right, it can produce

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

Noteworthy bits from the week: The TM Forum gets interested in the management side of NFV; Ixia strikes a deal for Net Optics; Brocade has an idea for OpenStack;

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

While we were at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, there were apparently things happening in other places — of all the nerve. We present news from the processor

Sonus virtualizes its session border controller, coming up with what might be an interesting NFV example to watch; IBM patents a virtual-machine-moving application; and Big Switch strengthens ties to

Not all SDN applications will be completely new. The first waves will take a basic focus: creating parity between 'SDN' and existing networking gear. That's a good thing, as

In this week's news roundup: Microsoft states the case for Hyper-V and NVGRE against VMware's NSX; OpenDaylight grows again; Pivotal acquires its way into mobile applications; Alcatel-Lucent gathers NFV

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

SDxCentral’s Weekly Roundup – September 20, 2013

Extreme and Enterasys try their hand at consolidation, but is it enough? (Hint: No.) Also, the OpenDaylight Project offers a wider peek at its first release, two 'open' SDN-related

A cloud-heavy week sees Cloudscaling and EMC putting up challenges to Amazon and Intel unveiling its Rack Scale Architecture with some new, key pieces.

It wasn't all VMworld this week, you know. Here's a look at what else happened.

A couple of pre-VMworld links, plus a news rounding that includes Arista partnerships, a CloudNFV formality, and yet another market forecast for SDN

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