Learn from the experts about what 2014 had in store for white box networking, and what might be happening in 2015.

A founding participant in OpenDaylight and the project's first chairman, Inder Gopal has now followed other SDN leaders out of IBM's doors.

Check out what these vendors had to say about what they found interesting and cool in the network virtualization scene this year and what they foresee happening in the

"Network virtualizaton" needs more than a definition. To fully understand NV, you need to know the scene. Check out this list of SDNCentral’s "where to start" stories of 2014.

With so many twists and turns, it's always going to be a long battle for the new hot-shot startup. Many will try, but only a few will survive.

We look back at the biggest network security stories of the year, and what they mean for the future of software-defined security.

Following the revelation that a vulnerability went ignored for months, the open source OpenDaylight Project overhauls its security response measures.

This week's SDNCentral roundup includes news bits on last month's Azure outage, a new agreement between Google and Verizon, and the announcement of three new starter kits from Plexxi.

Midokura has a lot of partners but few announced customer wins. Doubt surrounding the company could start to grow now that sales head Jim Lenox has left for a

Arista got its start in high-speed financial trading, but the competition might be intensifying. Startup Pluribus Networks is now the switch of choice for Wall Street cloud provider Lucera.

More growing pains for OpenDaylight, as a massive security hole went unpatched for months, partly for lack of a security team to report it to.

HP updates NFV Director; Broadcom updates its OpenFlow platform; OPNFV adds members; Pica8 adds an investor; Edgewater and Big Switch add execs.

Ciena, Cyan, Overture, RAD, and Luxoft will include the CryptoFlow Cloud virtual encryptor in their NFV ecosystems.

Tired of Dockerizing everything? Perhaps we don't need to. Are we getting carried away with Docker mania? Find out what Docker really does.

As machines get connected and users become more mobile, Cisco thinks it's got a play in collecting data and running analytics, a broad initiative for the company's Internet of

Carriers have to worry about developers bolting for the likes of Google and Facebook. Now they might have to worry about oil and gas companies, too

Brocade can celebrate, and incumbents Cisco and Ciena can relax a little; they've all been picked for AT&T's Domain 2.0 list.

After two years of development, Avi Networks launches its virtual application delivery controller with big venture backing.

With a Series B funding round that totals out at $20M, ThousandEyes also announces it will make its network visibility product available for free.

For the latest version of its carrier network virtualization service, ConteXtream tosses its proprietary controller in favor of OpenDaylight.

In this week's roundup: Juniper and VMware team up some more; HP will start reselling Alcatel-Lucent routers; a highly visible Cisco exec departs; a software-defined storage startup raises $53M.

It's time for telecom network providers to move to the "Burger King" model – as in, "Have it your way." Here's why Burger King's model is so important.

Continuing to push an open source agenda, Brocade teams up with Mirantis on OpenStack, giving its tire-kicking customers access to a fully supported distribution.

Intel becomes OpenDaylight's latest Platinum member, committing to the half-million dollar membership level in order to gain a seat on the board of directors.