From last week's conference in Dusseldorf, Germany: thoughts on SDN, NFV, and open source — and the state of Tail-f within Cisco.

Still don't believe in OpenStack? Mirantis has picked up $100M as OpenStack becomes more of a household word, at least in cloud households.

From the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, Dan Pitt talks about the ONF's next stage, the 'default' status of OpenFlow, and the disappointing side of open source.

Last week SDNCentral was in Dusseldorf, Germany for the 2014 SDN & OpenFlow World Congress. Check out our Day 4 highlights and beyond as we continue to add new

This week's roundup includes OpenStack Juno, VMware's NSX, and VMware and CSC's collaboration to offer OpenStack infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform.

Charlie Ashton outlines the pros and cons of the most common virtual switching solutions. Find out if it's possible to meet aggressive performance targets without compromising on critical system-level

Far from being a standards body, the OPNFV effort will be enlisting open source groups to help nurture NFV — a job that will need a diplomatic touch.

ProgrammableFlow is now priced to move — not because NEC has to clear the lot, but because smaller SDN deployments are becoming a real business.

EMC's $50M bid for Cloudscaling leaves us wondering — is it possible Cloudscaling could be packaged with VMware?

UOL will be using Embrane's heleos platform for Layer 4-7 functions, but it's really Embrane's work with Cisco's ACI that sparked the deal.

In another sign that vendors are taking OpenDaylight seriously, Dell is ponying up to become the project's tenth platinum-level sponsor.

As NTT Docomo expands its vEPC work, the carrier really wants NFV to provide reliability and cost savings, as Tatsuya Nakamura explained at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress.

Three big names have left Red Hat to found — what else? — a Docker startup. They think Open vSwitch integration is key to scaling the network to accommodate

After more than a year of SDN radio silence, Coriant unveils Transcend, an SDN portfolio and plan that includes a controller, an orchestrator, and an eye toward transport SDN.

NFV management and orchestration will be a hot topic at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress. And of course Amdocs, one of the big names in OSS/BSS, has something

Elite customers are buying into bare-metal switching, SDN, and NFV, but what about the rest of the world? Separate Dell, HP, and Cumulus products show the vendors reaching out

In this week's roundup: Tech breakup season, Q3 warnings from Juniper and Riverbed, some OpenStack love for Big Switch, and an update from one of those Docker startups.

To challenge Solidfire and EMC in serving high-performance workloads, Nutanix adds an all-flash option to its Virtual Computing Platform.

The VCE joint venture has done well, with sales approaching $2B, even though it's not profitable. Even without Cisco's money, VCE could thrive.

The startup shows its programmable data plane box can be a router that operates at the scale of core BGP routers, taking advantage of the OpenFlow 1.3 pipeline.

A multivendor control plane is cool, but the first questions it invites are "Where's Cisco?" and "Where's Juniper?" Cyan finally has an answer, but only at Layer 2.

Nuage continues to announce large customers in Europe. This time, it's OVH, which wants to attach some SDN-based automation to its OpenStack-as-a-service offering.

Well, not all the software. But the open networking movement needs some marketing tricks to figure out what will attract non-early-adopters, and what they're willing to pay.

HP is separating PCs and printers from enterprise — not a new idea, but one that could have extra meaning now that SDN and NFV have become ensconced in