Cyan gets a boost, Fibre Channel gets a reprieve, Sonus gets some SDN tech — and our own site gets a name change, to SDxCentral.

This week's SDNCentral roundup includes news bits on last month's Azure outage, a new agreement between Google and Verizon, and the announcement of three new starter kits from Plexxi.

Midokura has a lot of partners but few announced customer wins. Doubt surrounding the company could start to grow now that sales head Jim Lenox has left for a

Compute and storage have been liquefied in the data center. Now it's time to do the same for the data center itself. That's the goal of Mesosphere, which raised

As prices push downward, cloud providers are moving up the stack. Amazon's new Lambda offering and Docker management servics sound good for developers — but they're also opportunities for

In a bar near Boston, Plexxi's CEO once nagged EMC's Rich Napolitano about coming on board. It eventually worked: The company is revealing Napolitano has been its CEO for

To challenge Solidfire and EMC in serving high-performance workloads, Nutanix adds an all-flash option to its Virtual Computing Platform.

The VCE joint venture has done well, with sales approaching $2B, even though it's not profitable. Even without Cisco's money, VCE could thrive.

Maybe 'disaggregation' is a less gory way to say it. Cisco is prepping UCS for big data and the Internet of Everything, introducing an architecture akin to Intel's RSA.

VMware's entry into the hyperconverged infrastructure market might step on Nutanix's toes but doesn't faze the startup. Meanwhile, Quanta seems ready to go with EVO:RACK, the architecture's second phase.

VMworld Newswire: NSX, Storage, and a Touch of DevOps

VMworld is the time for all sorts of VMware partnerships to get announced, of course. Two early entries that stand out are Dell and F5's separate efforts to enhance

Docker containers aren't ideal for all production applications, because they don't play well with databases and have no awareness of state. Startup ClusterHQ, part of a growing Docker ecosystem,

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

The major cloud players, including Amazon and Microsoft, engaged in some serious cost-cutting earlier this year. Google is starting to bring out new features in hopes of finding some

Analysts say router and switch growth has slowed or even stopped, and they don't think it's an anomaly. SDN is causing some buyers to hesitate, and the white-box movement

This week's news roundup includes the Palo Alto-Juniper settlement; PoC trials in NFV and storage; Ericsson's plans for new Silicon Valley digs; and ARM's data-center advance.

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.

What makes OpenStack so popular? Howie Xu, who's worked in virtual switching at Cisco, Big Switch, and VMware, took a look at the platform with fresh eyes and shared

A busy week in SDN and NFV, thanks to the Open Networking Summit. In addition to Infonetics' analysis of a slow Q4 for routers and switches, we have items

At Mobile World Congress, everybody loves Telefonica; Martin Casado tells RSA about security's Goldilocks zone; Napatech and VSS Monitoring advance network monitoring; Europe gets more bare-metal switching; storage gets

Pass out the cigars: OpenDaylight is launching its first code release, as Hydrogen is set to be downloadable on Tuesday, coinciding with the start of the first OpenDaylight Summit.

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

Apparently, this kid is going places. Nutanix raises a whopping $101 million in a Series D round that puts the company's valuation at just less than $1 billion and