CEO Michel Combes pledges positive free cash flow by year end, as Alcatel-Lucent presses forward on turnaround plans.

Brocade continues its foray into SDN/NFV with another acquisition, announcing plans to buy Riverbed's SteelApp virtual ADC line.

Broadband Forum vet Heather Kirksey signs on with OPNFV, where she'll have to reconcile open source methods with carrier-grade specs.

EMC didn't specify numbers, but some of its 60,000 employees will lose their jobs as the company shifts its priorites to fast-growing businesses.

Citrix's Q4 earnings seem adequate, but the company sees cause for trimming as part of the industrywide shift toward software-defined infrastructure.

The goodwill impairment charge swings Juniper to a net loss for the fourth quarter, as the company attempts a pivot under investor pressure.

David Meyer, OpenDaylight chair since November, shares his top priorities for the open source controller project.

Verizon CFO Fran Shammo reacts to Google's reported mobile service play, saying the move rebuts the need for 'extreme and risky' Title II.

Oracle's founder announces plans to undercut 'everyone' on pricing for data center fabric, launching an aggressive foray into Cisco's turf.

The Heartbleed vulnerability remains rampant, and that's just part of the bad news from Cisco's latest security report.

What if an enterprise's own servers could become an Amazon-like cloud? That's the setup proposed by Platform9, a startup founded by former VMware engineers.

Brocade announces a free trial version of its open source Vyatta controller, and CTO David Meyer explains the company's open source vision.

Big jumps in data center and IoT revenue bolster Intel's cloud infrastructure play in a 'strong finish to a record year.'

Worried about the safety of the public cloud? The U.S. Department of Defense isn't — at least not for certain levels of sensitive data on certain public clouds.

If botnets are so resilient, why not use a similar structure for building regular networks? Ed Amoroso, head honcho of security at AT&T, thinks that's the way to go.

Experts weigh in with observations on the biggest trends for NFV in 2014.

A look back at the biggest stories from the world of SDN in 2014.

We look back at the biggest network security stories of the year, and what they mean for the future of software-defined security.

Following the revelation that a vulnerability went ignored for months, the open source OpenDaylight Project overhauls its security response measures.

More growing pains for OpenDaylight, as a massive security hole went unpatched for months, partly for lack of a security team to report it to.

Ciena, Cyan, Overture, RAD, and Luxoft will include the CryptoFlow Cloud virtual encryptor in their NFV ecosystems.

Arista CEO Jayshree Ullal blasts her former employer in a blog post responding to Cisco's patent infringement lawsuit.

Brocade can celebrate, and incumbents Cisco and Ciena can relax a little; they've all been picked for AT&T's Domain 2.0 list.

After two years of development, Avi Networks launches its virtual application delivery controller with big venture backing.