The company is offering Istio in two ways: as an ingress gateway for north-south traffic into the service mesh environment, and as a sidecar proxy to control inter-microservice communication.

The company's founder and CTO explained that it was unable to adequately monetize its operations in light of Kubernetes’ rise.

The trial with network partner Calix used SDN to bond four multi-gig fiber optic channels.

The group is working with service providers to define and create VNF reference architectures for NFVi.

Huawei plans to invest $1.5 billion in developer tools and teased a bevy of AI cloud services and processors amid a push to open source more of its technology.

Semmle’s semantic code analysis engine allows developers and security teams to discover and track potential vulnerabilities in their code.

The security unicorn says its technology is more effective than other SDN or hypervisor-based segmentation like Cisco ACI with Tetration and VMware’s NSX.

The carrier will use that equipment as part of its “pre-commercial” 5G service it’s launching this week.

The new valuation inches the company closer to the $7.5 billion Microsoft spent to acquire rival GitHub.

The latest Anthos updates include an Istio-based service mesh and a serverless-focused Cloud Run for Anthos product.

Rafay Systems made available its software-as-a-service (SaaS) for Kubernetes lifecycle management and closed an $8 million Series A funding round.

VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger thinks IBM paid too much for Red Hat at $34 billion. Meanwhile VMware paid $2.8 billion for Pivotal, and “I have better assets.”

Comcast today said it deployed Trellis, the Open Networking Foundation’s (ONF) open source SDN fabric, in “multiple markets.”

Operators moving to virtualized architectures can save 40% in capex, according to a study by Arthur D. Little, AT&T, Deutsche Telekom, and Telefónica.

A tier-one operator deployed Trellis, an open source SDN-based platform, said AT&T’s Andre Fuetsch during an ONF Connect keynote. He didn’t name the operator.

Kubernetes becomes the de facto management plane for Apache Spark jobs running on YARN and Kubernetes within Google Kubernetes Engine clusters.

The update includes SCM as a storage tier, dual port Intel Optane drives in support of NVMe-oF, as well as integrations with VMware, Ansible, and Kubernetes.

The service mesh is based on the Envoy service proxy and supports microservices running in Kubernetes, VMs, containers, and legacy environments.

Stratum is a silicon-independent switch operating system for SDN that runs on a variety of switching silicon and various whitebox switch platforms.

The Google angle hardens the underlying Google Kubernetes Engine node against rootkits and bootkits.

Its namesake cloud data integration platform aims to address ingestion variables.

Movere will complement Microsoft's Azure Migrate platform and the cloud provider’s integrated partner offerings.

Chris Kozup returned to Aruba Networks as CMO; Mike Sicoli bids farewell to GTT; plus the latest executive hirings, promotions, and staff changes.

The company claims that simplicity and familiarity are what make Maesh different from other service mesh platforms on the market like Istio and Linkerd.