The metro cloud market — the space between data centers — is becoming a hotbed of 100G activity. So, Infinera has built a smaller, simpler transport box to get

Working under the radar for three years, vArmour reveals its plans to secure the insides of the cloud. It sounds a little familiar so far.

Cisco's Intercloud connects to all sorts of public clouds, but the market for managed private clouds will be growing as well. That's the bet Cisco is making by acquiring

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is launching a new certification program for engineers and marketing professionals to prove their SDN chops.

Details of the XPliant Packet Architecture are out, and the chips do indeed present a programmable answer to Broadcom's Trident switch chips and their 90% market share.

Nuage Networks' latest software, aired at Networking Field Day, showed the company's latest in SDN scaling, applications deployment, and Docker containers.

Our Weekly Roundup for Friday, September 12 brings you news on many 'firsts:' virtualized content caching, OSS as a service, and a new OpenFlow-enabled SDN product for Microsoft Lync.

Cavium's recent acquisition of Xpliant wasn't a lucky break. It began years ago with a plan to break the curse hanging over semiconductor startups.

Small in cash but big in name, Eucalyptus brings HP some private-cloud savvy and former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, who will run HP's networking business.

What do you do when you have a radical FPGA that people are reluctant to design for? Do the design yourself and see if they'll take the hint. Tabula

Alcatel-Lucent has a combined packet-optical SDN approach that will get introduced later this year. And of course, it's going to take advantage of the company's not-so-secret weapon: Nuage.

They said x86 chips could already support Geneve, and it looks like it's true. Just 7 months after the protocol was introduced to unify VXLAN and NVGRE, Intel has

This week's roundup the OpenDaylight Project adding members; Mirantis and Avaya making big claims about traction; A10 settling a lawsuit; and Ciena joining Domain 2.0.

Maybe 'disaggregation' is a less gory way to say it. Cisco is prepping UCS for big data and the Internet of Everything, introducing an architecture akin to Intel's RSA.

Nokia Networks' efforts in NFV and the cloud might pay off, in the form of a VoLTE service that a major operator wants to launch this year.

SDN has become a 'battle of titans,' and Martin Casado is now a field general in that fight. He'll be working with sales teams on NSX, bringing Nicira's product

This page provides links to all our VMworld 2014 coverage, with topics including NSX, OpenStack, EVO, and Docker — and we'll be updating it as post-show stories filter in.

This week in SDN and NFV news: Facebook announced its testing for open Wedge switch design, while Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens resigns, and the SDN-related sales slowdown might

A deal with Zetta.IO, a new service provider in Norway, adds to Midokura's customer roster and provides evidence that the company's network virtualization for OpenStack is gaining traction.

VMware's entry into the hyperconverged infrastructure market might step on Nutanix's toes but doesn't faze the startup. Meanwhile, Quanta seems ready to go with EVO:RACK, the architecture's second phase.

VMworld Newswire: NSX, Storage, and a Touch of DevOps

EVO:RAIL got a lot of attention at VMworld because it's shipping in Q3, but EVO:RACK shouldn't be far behind. EVO:RACK certainly is bigger and more complex, but Open Compute

VMworld is the time for all sorts of VMware partnerships to get announced, of course. Two early entries that stand out are Dell and F5's separate efforts to enhance

On the heels of a good quarter and flush with cash, HP may be looking for acquisitions, big or small, in areas including SDN and DevOps.