Arista is among the vendors taking DevOps tools such as Puppet from cloud computing into the networking world.

Lackluster execution in the U.S. and China sent HP's networking business down 11% last quarter, says CEO Meg Whitman.

Avaya is building its own SDN controller using its in-house Fabric Connect with the OpenDaylight framework.

Mirantis aims to make container management easier in enterprise-grade OpenStack.

Claiming to be serious about open source, Cisco has given David Ward a 275-person team to test the waters.

Cisco's French investment; Procera's new partners; Appcito's CAFE launch; and Nokia's MWC plans.

How will companies be differentiated in the market? Check out Scott Raynovich's key differentiators along with their real-world analogies.

A grass roots effort for intent-driven network management is running in Google's network and set to go live in carriers.

An online portal lets users test SDN products like Big Cloud Fabric in a hands-on environment.

HP announced its branded brite box network switches today that will give Web scale organizations and SPs more flexibility and control of data center networks.

OPNFV as a product and a virtual SSR8000 are among Ericsson's massive plans for Mobile World Congress.

The face of Huawei SDN at forums and conferences, has returned to the user camp, taking a job at Visa

Pledging Tail-f will remain open and multivendor, Cisco puts a vote of confidence behind the former startup's Netconf plans.

SDN hobbyists: There's a Kickstarter project out there for you.

Appointments at vArmour, Cloud Foundry, Adara, & Illumio, the latest on Docker 1.5 release, & an HP acquisition.

Two months' work yields Cisco, SK Telecom, and 1,000 downloads.

John Chambers sounded positively giddy announcing Q2 earnings, promising to self-disrupt Cisco and thrash competition.

Rather than be overrun by white box ODMs, Cyan has decided to get out in front of them.

Ex-Broadcom employees allegedly made a 'flurried' effort to recruit colleagues to their startup.

The creation of an NFV unit leads to two promotions at VMware.

SDxCentral is pleased to announce the addition of its newest resource page, NFV and SDN for Dummies! Here, you'll find helpful resources to learn more about SDx, SDN, NFV,

This week's news includes Cisco's VNI forecast, EMC's hyper-converged infrastructure appliance, and VMware CIO's new gig.

No, CloudStack isn't dead. Big customers such as China Telecom use it — although China Telecom also wanted VMware ESX support, which made for an interesting summer at Nuage.

Brocade continues its foray into SDN/NFV with another acquisition, announcing plans to buy Riverbed's SteelApp virtual ADC line.