SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — November 4, 2016
Apollo Global Management completed its $4.3 billion acquisition of Rackspace.
News - Networking
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Who Might Buy Brocade's IP Business?
The former Foundry & Ruckus could be split up. -
FireEye Stock Climbs After Q3, Defying Security's Slump
Q3 revenues grew, and losses could have been worse. -
Headcount: The Latest in Hirings, Firings And Retirings for October 2016
Our monthly summary of executive moves and changes. -
Telefónica Deploys a Nokia Virtual Router in its Live Network
It only deployed a single instance of the virtual router as proof of its viability. -
Gigamon Introduces Overlapping Flow Samples to Its Platform
There is also a security aspect to this new capability. -
Intel Security Spinoff McAfee Unifies Its Security Platform
Intel Security will soon adopt the name McAfee entirely. -
Broadcom Buys Brocade Communications for $5.9B
Broadcom strengthens its enterprise storage portfolio. -
SDxCentral’s Top 10 Articles — October 2016
CTO Singh leaves Cisco, Why Google's Network Needs 5 Controllers, and Top 10 Acquisitions. -
If Broadcom Buys Brocade, It Might Dump the non Data Center Ruckus Assets
Dumping Brocade's IP assets would eliminate a key concern of investors. -
Facebook Aims to Unbundle Packet-Optical Networks
Welcome Voyager, the white-box transponder. -
Aporeto Thinks Container Security Can Really Be This Simple
Step One: Take the network out of it. -
Sonera Trials NB-IoT Using Nokia Gear
Momentum is building as more operators test NB-IoT. -
Apcera Platform Primes Containers for Enterprise Deployment
Legacy apps and security are two of the big-ticket items. -
Broadcom May Be Considering a Purchase of Brocade
Or perhaps Broadcom is being used as a stalking horse. -
OpenSwitch Moves Away From HPE, Embracing Dell & SnapRoute
It's Take 2 for the open source switching project. -
Microsoft Makes a Move Toward Open Source Hardware
Over 90% of Microsoft's servers are based on OCP. -
CenturyLink Buys Level 3 for $34B in a Fiber Play
CenturyLink becomes a major fiber player. -
AT&T’s 400G Trials Will Include An Open Platform Router
ECOMP is involved too, of course. -
Nuage Thinks SD-WAN Should Reach Farther, Even Into Public Clouds
Other SD-WANs don't think end-to-end, Nuage claims. -
SDxCentral Weekly News Roundup — October 28, 2016
The Linux Foundation's massive open online course is available for registration. -
Cisco Scores Six Operator SD-WAN Deployments
Cisco says SD-WAN should be viewed as an addition to MPLS, not a replacement. -
CenturyLink, Level 3 In Merger Talks
The combination of these two telecom firms could create some interesting strengths in virtualized networking. -
Nokia Hit With Q3 Net Loss as Network Buildouts Slow
About that $17B Alcatel-Lucent buy — why didn't that help?