Ice sculpture, check. Cake too pretty to cut, check. Lots of big names from the OpenStack developer world, check. OpenStack turned 4 this month, and San Francisco wanted to

Only about half the companies polled by Juniper have any plans for SDN. But those that want SDN want it quickly, and they want it to co-exist with what

Broadcom leads in Ethernet switches, and Intel leads in processors. Now Cavium can better match up against both of them, with the pending acquisition of startup Xpliant.

Cloud service providers needs standards for transporting services across different networks. But they can't wait years for these standards to emerge. Enter the CloudEthernet Forum and its DevOps-like approach.

The date is here: July 31. Cisco's ACI is ready to start shipping, in a pricing model based on perpetual licenses and with prefab bundles intended to nudge existing

So, VMware's NSX is a $100M business? Who's buying? Here's one example, a government cloud-services provider that competes with Amazon for federal accounts.

In this week's SDN-related news: Big Switch Networks announced partnership with In-Q-Tel, creators of Orchard and Fig are joining the Docker team, AT&T announced its newest vendors, Catbird extends

CEO Pat Gelsinger delivers more chipper news about NSX during VMware's earnings. The signs of growth are nice, but no matter what Gelsinger thinks, Cisco and VMware aren't exactly

In teaming up with Wi-Fi vendor Meru, NEC sees a chance to target enterprises' combined wired/wireless networks, which could benefit from the flexibility promised by OpenFlow.

Remember Neoteris? Or Funk Software? Those Juniper acquisitions got folded into Junos Pulse — which just got sold for less than those deals cost, as Juniper enters the final

Bare-metal SDN isn't just for the 1%. Big Switch is launching its new flagship product, the Big Cloud Fabric, and is re-articulating its bare-metal SDN strategy. The theme now

If your product is going in a software direction, you'd better make friends with developers. Founded a year ago, Cisco's DevNet is fostering a developer community around IoT, SDN,

Members of Cisco's DevNet community will get APIC EM for free, which opens up the software to pretty much everybody. It's a way for Cisco to spread ACI knowledge

In this week's SDN-related news: Meg Whitman takes the chair at HP; VMware expands its cloud reach in Asia, while BTI does the same in Europe; and Juniper and

FireHost sees promise in Cisco's ACI and VMware's NSX. But the cloud hosting provider, known for its levels of security, has reservations about both. In this Q&A, FireHost's network

Heading off the opener-than-thou wars that are erupting among vendors, the IT executives in ONUG have defined what they expect out of open networks, from architectural elements to expected

The companies' new product-integration roadmap includes plans for Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS), Nexus, and ACI — and, on Microsoft’s side, Cloud OS and Microsoft Azure.

A fixed-configuration switch with dual 100G uplinks marks Arista's first product launch since going public. While '100G' is nice, the supposed 1,000x advantage in memory buffer size is a

Containers have caught on as a way to pool resources in the cloud

In this week's roundup: the Cisco/Rackspace theory that just won't die, Midokura's adventures in partner-hunting, and IBM's plan to throw $3B in the general direction of the cloud.

Has little Midokura found a big partner? The startup was a winner of Nokia Networks' Open Innovation Challenge, but whether that translates into a partnership won't be known until

Specific pieces of Ciena's packet-optical SDN plans are falling into place. An SDN controller for Layer 0-2 is on the way, but Layer 3 will have to wait. Ciena

Layer 4-7 functions often get talked about like generic entities that an SDN controller taps at will. It's true that the controller calls the shots, but Citrix wants to

A new Metaswitch project aims to bring open-source Layer 3 code to OpenStack-based NFV environments. It's the best way to scale NFV, the company claims, and besides, all the