Maybe $1 billion was too much to ask, or maybe they never asked at all. Either way, IBM is keeping its SDN VE platform and taking advantage of the

For the second time in a month, a lead engineer from Juniper is joining Brocade's team. Tom Nadeau, who helped literally write the book on SDN, will lead a

IBM considers a $1 billion SDN sale (or maybe not); VMware collects more NSX customers; Mellanox tries something new with its Ethernet chip; the ONF expands its OpenFlow testing.

This open-source thing might really be catching on. The OCP Summit V held this week brought some heavy hitters to the stage, including Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Andreessen, and Andy

Short answer: Tell them about it. That's the optimistic perspective of believers in the Open Compute Project (OCP) networking initiative, who think open-source hardware can get rolling with only

The ONF isn't exactly venerable, but it's been around long enough to attract potential member companies that are younger than the organization itself. Suddenly, that $30,000 membership fee, which

The Open Compute Project claims its networking initiative has gathered lots of attention in its first year, especially from open-source and white-box camps, and Big Switch is among the

A big name joins the white box revolution as Dell says it will offer Cumulus Linux as an OS option for certain top-of-rack switches. It's the strongest sign yet

Cisco's SDN Architecture Shrinks Down to the Campus

Upstart ADC vendor A10 has its sights on turning Layer 4-7 functions into full cloud citizens, creating the automated environment that's available to most other cloud functions. That's piqued

Founder Tom Nolle is stepping down from CloudNFV, trying to avoid conflicts of interest as the NFV project moves into its commercial phase. Proofs-of-concept are on the way, and

As IT changes, so must its culture — so said a panel of experts convened at a Dell event last week. Replacing the former hordes of computer science majors

The ONF adds wireless networks to its purview; EMC makes a pretty obvious cloud decision; Pluribus grows up a little more; SDN seeks its Charles de Gaulle.

While we await shipments of the full Insieme ACI product line, Cisco trots out some data-center advancements: Whiptail's flash storage gets linked to ACI; Cloupia's network management gets folded

In a deal worth more than $1B, VMware is trying to add a security element to its vision of a mobile, virtual workspace. It's part of the company's bigger-picture

After stepping down as CEO, Guido Appenzeller was supposed to take the title of CTO. Plans change, though, and it's now Rob Sherwood taking the CTO role, with Appenzeller

Brocade talked last fall about focusing the business on data-center networks and SDN — and about divesting about $80 million a year in businesses to help do that. It's

Service providers might take a while to start implementing SDN everywhere, but when they do, the numbers could get big quickly. It's still a hardware-dominated market, but ACG Research

A departure in the Marvell family; Egenera finds the SDN world waking up to Microsoft; Freescale open-sources a controller; and OpenDaylight adds members and contemplates what comes after Hydrogen.

Cisco acquired network management specialist Jahi 10 years ago. Now Jahi's team has reassembled at Anuta, claiming they can simplify the creation of services. Jahi's first target was the

Best known as a foil to F5, A10 is branching out. Pieces of its Thunder ADCs are finding their way into dedicated appliances, the most recent being a DDoS

VMware finally gets a CTO, a year after Steve Herrod left; Cyan and Procera won't bring post-holiday cheer to Q4 results; CloudNFV expands its potential 'as-a-service' arsenal; Microsoft might

The Contrail acquisition has polarized Juniper to the point where engineers have been steadily leaving, according to some sources. Among the reasons: an allegedly vicious rant by CTO Pradeep

Well, it's closer than Xsigo was, anyway. Oracle has signed a deal to acquire Corente, a New Jersey-based startup that manages cloud-based and distributed services, allowing for tricks like