Docker and its ilk could be getting more OpenStack support soon — but it took a few OpenStack Summits to make it happen.

Startup aims to provide an automator of automators.

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.

In this week's roundup: Juniper and VMware team up some more; HP will start reselling Alcatel-Lucent routers; a highly visible Cisco exec departs; a software-defined storage startup raises $53M.

In this week's roundup: AWS describes its network and works with Docker and Intel; HP and Nokia team up to help operators, and Rackspace supports Microsoft Hyper-V.

In this week's update: New features, and a new exec, for Microsoft Azure; add-ons for Arista; and new friends for the Open Compute Project.

In this week's SDNCentral roundup: Oracle supports OpenStack; OpenDaylight incurs a minor delay; Amazon and Rackspace reboot; and Compass-EOS produces an SDN "Forwarding Plane."

Juniper's Contrail Controller has been deployed by Czech Republican cloud-computing company tcp cloud to enhance creation of high-density private cloud solutions.

Small in cash but big in name, Eucalyptus brings HP some private-cloud savvy and former MySQL CEO Marten Mickos, who will run HP's networking business.

A deal with Zetta.IO, a new service provider in Norway, adds to Midokura's customer roster and provides evidence that the company's network virtualization for OpenStack is gaining traction.

This week's roundup features VMworld warm-up news, a Cumulus milestone, Brocade's venture into Oceania, and a familiar Cisco name joining Riverbed.

Former VMware engineers have struck out on their own to create yet another cloud provider. Platform9 has raised a $4.5M Series A round to pursue its own vision of

In this week's roundup: the Cisco/Rackspace theory that just won't die, Midokura's adventures in partner-hunting, and IBM's plan to throw $3B in the general direction of the cloud.

Cisco had a lot to say about ACI at the recent Cisco Live, but it also had a lot to say about VMware's NSX, and VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger

Lanham Napier is walking way from Rackspace after about 14 years, saying the job of running the $1.5B-a-year company was wearing him down. His departure means we'll see the

In the headlines this week: Cisco's Q2 guidance causes a freakout; Nuage Networks names customers; EMC tries out this all-flash-storage thing; Amazon talks about its own storage ideas; and

Rackspace takes a swipe at Pivotal's PaaS; Pica8 loves the command-line interface (sort of); Ixia's CEO becomes the latest false-resume story; Huawei pushes for SDN in the enterprise; Transmode

No more couch-surfing around San Francisco. Midokura, which has done most of its work and business in Japan, has brought over Jim Lenox — who was with VMware in

SDxCentral SDN and NFV Weekly Roundup - June 7, 2013