Yet another notable hire comes to Brocade: Colin Dixon, one of the big names in OpenDaylight. It's part of Brocade's conscious effort to become a bigger force in OpenDaylight

A couple of noteworthy names related to SDN and OpenDaylight have departed IBM recently, possibly reflecting the uncertainty that hung over IBM as the networking hardware group got sold.

SDN applications such as bandwidth bursting might really come to life. KVH plans to offer that feature in August on etherXen, a carrier-grade Ethernet service built on Cyan and

Citrix Netscaler Tightens Ties With Cisco

Pluribus offers its own hardware, but it's a software company at heart. A deal with Supermicro could help the startup show what its combination of switching and CPU control

It looks like the WAN is heating up as a target for startups. After CloudGenix launched last week, vIPtela is now releasing details of its architecture, which uses secure

NFV is all about moving network functions onto servers, but what about the servers themselves? NTT wants to try putting them into a distributed architecture, and it's enlisting help

Our Weekly Roundup for Friday, May 2 features Oracle’s new cloud infrastructure platform, highlights from Cable Show 2014, and what Michael Dell has to say about SDN. Check it

'2014 is going to make people cry.' It's not just the white box issue. Hyperscale customers such as Google are distorting the market and changing the competitive rules for

With a $5M funding round, Edgewater Networks will test the idea of running virtualized security appliances on its Edgemarc session border controllers. The hope is to give carriers another

A touch of policy, a pinch of NFV-like virtualization — startup CloudGenix mixes it all together to produce what it claims is a new, disaggregated approach to the enterprise

Approaching NFV from the carrier network's point of view, Overture is ready to show off its complete Ensemble package, including an orchestration platform for the physical and virtual networks,

But what might that mean for other open-source projects? Heartbleed shed light on the lack of funding for crucial yet unglamorous open-source work, and hopefully the largesse now going

As the next OpenFlow plugfest approaches in May, Pica8 is quick to play the OpenFlow 1.4 card. The company's latest software release offers the pieces to program an OpenFlow

In this week's roundup: Ericsson shakes up Networks; VTEPs start shipping for VMware; Nuage turns 1 and recaps its customer traction; AT&T adds to Domain 2.0.

First it was Cumulus; now Dell has a deal to sell some of Big Switch's software. It's a blend of the revolutionary spirit of the startups tied to a

Juniper's Q1 earnings and Q2 forecast didn't rock the boat, giving new CEO Shaygan Kheradpir a chance to claim the Integrated Operating Plan is rolling smoothly. It's possible Juniper

Stop us if you've heard this before. Big Switch hires an executive out of Juniper — this time Shaun Page, arriving to fill the sales VP spot.

Not surprisingly, CEO Douglas Murray is tapping his alma mater, Juniper, to flesh out Big Switch Networks' new management team. Rajeev Gupta is arriving from there to develop the

In SDN/NFV news this week: Cumulus shows its worth, Dell tests its NFV worthiness, Brocade hires another Cisco executive, and OpenDaylight picks a new board member.

The ninth OpenStack includes some advances in compute, orchestration, and the database-as-a-service concept. Looking ahead, OpenStack is adapting to a new demand for bigger workloads on bare metal.

A proposal to link OpenContrail to OpenDaylight is Juniper's first contribution to the SDN collective. It might be a sign that Juniper, after months of being a wallflower, is

Juniper's enterprise business is the area where most analysts think the company will eventually sell some businesses. But Junos Pulse, aimed at carrier-managed services for mobile devices, might also

Competitors have a point when they talk about lock-in and Cisco's ACI, but a policy-driven SDN approach can be seen as very practical. The trick will be to make