Docker containers, OpenStack applications, open hardware, and the Open Compute Project — VMware loves it all, CEO Pat Gelsinger says as VMworld kicks off in San Francisco.

The emphasis around VMware's NSX will be less on SDN and more on security, as the company kicks off VMworld by talking about some practical use cases for the

The HP NFV effort might have just taken a hit, as SVP Bethany Mayer has been hired away as Ixia's new president and CEO.

This week's roundup features VMworld warm-up news, a Cumulus milestone, Brocade's venture into Oceania, and a familiar Cisco name joining Riverbed.

HP Claims Networking Gains and NFV Progress in Q3

The security startup has secured two funding rounds in less than a year to develop products for security east-west traffic in enterprise and service provider networks.

Now Martin Casado is really the face of networking at VMware. He'll be the senior vice president of the Networking and Security business unit as Steve Mullaney departs. Meanwhile,

Turns out x86 chips are getting pretty good at packet processing. Brocade and Telefónica say they got 80G out of the Brocade 5600 virtual router, the latest descendent of

Ericsson and Ciena teamed up in February to provide Layer 0-3 networking and SDN. Now they've announced the first joint customer under that partnership: Australia's Telstra.

With a new round of funding announced, GuardiCore gives a glimpse into its products that use SDN security to protect data centers from within, and keep attackers at bay.

The Open Networking User Group welcomes new board members to help drive SDN and NFV deployments, while Array Networks and Penguin Computing release new products.

NIKE chooses Juniper Networks to help develop the company's next-generation data center cloud using Juniper SDN-based MetaFabric to advance its retail network infrastructure.

That's not a good thing, by the way. Burned by the promises of ISDN and ATM, some carriers attending the recent MEF meeting say they're cautious about SDN. They'd

Cisco announced layoffs of 6,000 to go along with a flat Q4 report, leaving investors with plenty to worry about. As fiscal 2015 begins, could SDN and NFV help

Multipath TCP got a lot of attention for being used by Apple's Siri service. That's nifty, but any new trick creates new security questions, as researchers at the Black

In this week's news: Genband will join the Intel Network Builders program, Abiquo and CloudSigma partner up, CPlane and KnowISys join, the latest model of Overture 6500 and more.

Want to mine Bitcoins or DDoS your enemies, but don't want the electric bills of a big server farm? Borrow from the cloud! Researchers found a way to spoof

Arista managed to beat expectations for its first publicly reported quarter and announced a tighter alliance with an SDN partner that doesn't happen to be Cisco.

In its seventh quarterly meeting, the ETSI group spearheading network functions virtualization (NFV) voted to stick around for two more years and elected new leadership from AT&T and NTT

While SDN and NFV hold incredible potential to change the face of networking and infrastructure, more than half of respondents to a recent SDNCentral poll said they believe it

Stuart Elby has been an SDN and OpenFlow advocate for years at Verizon, and he's also been seen hanging around Infinera. Now he's joining the packet-optical vendor as it

CEO Jayshree Ullal will take the mic on Thursday for Arista Networks' first-ever earnings report. Arista's growth rate in the past year has been superb, and analysts expect it

Martin Casado of VMware and Mike Cohen of Insieme (now of Cisco/Noiro) discuss what's going on with network policy and OpenStack Congress, and why openness is so important to

In this week's news: Juniper touts an OpenContrail win, Ericsson buys a new toy, AT&T builds an orchestrator, Intel invests in container-based management, and Pertino targets the WAN.