Yet another notable hire comes to Brocade: Colin Dixon, one of the big names in OpenDaylight. It's part of Brocade's conscious effort to become a bigger force in OpenDaylight

A couple of noteworthy names related to SDN and OpenDaylight have departed IBM recently, possibly reflecting the uncertainty that hung over IBM as the networking hardware group got sold.

SDN applications such as bandwidth bursting might really come to life. KVH plans to offer that feature in August on etherXen, a carrier-grade Ethernet service built on Cyan and

Citrix Netscaler Tightens Ties With Cisco

NFV is all about moving network functions onto servers, but what about the servers themselves? NTT wants to try putting them into a distributed architecture, and it's enlisting help

But what might that mean for other open-source projects? Heartbleed shed light on the lack of funding for crucial yet unglamorous open-source work, and hopefully the largesse now going

As the next OpenFlow plugfest approaches in May, Pica8 is quick to play the OpenFlow 1.4 card. The company's latest software release offers the pieces to program an OpenFlow

Juniper's Q1 earnings and Q2 forecast didn't rock the boat, giving new CEO Shaygan Kheradpir a chance to claim the Integrated Operating Plan is rolling smoothly. It's possible Juniper

Stop us if you've heard this before. Big Switch hires an executive out of Juniper — this time Shaun Page, arriving to fill the sales VP spot.

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.

The ninth OpenStack includes some advances in compute, orchestration, and the database-as-a-service concept. Looking ahead, OpenStack is adapting to a new demand for bigger workloads on bare metal.

A proposal to link OpenContrail to OpenDaylight is Juniper's first contribution to the SDN collective. It might be a sign that Juniper, after months of being a wallflower, is

Juniper's enterprise business is the area where most analysts think the company will eventually sell some businesses. But Junos Pulse, aimed at carrier-managed services for mobile devices, might also

Competitors have a point when they talk about lock-in and Cisco's ACI, but a policy-driven SDN approach can be seen as very practical. The trick will be to make

With its new Layerscape chips, Freescale is trying to make a system-on-chip friendly enough for software people. The goal was to abstract the network, much in the way that

In this week's news: BTI gets a CEO; ConteXtream and Guavus team up; Huawei starts an OpenDaylight testing center in Shenzhen; and OpenDaylight offers student internships for the summer.

Well, not literally. But a technology called RISE makes it possible for a partner's system to behave like a Nexus 7000 line card. This could bring Nexus up to

SDN isn't a threat to networking jobs, and the migration to a DevOps model doesn't necessarily mean everybody has to become a programmer. Even so, the nature of networking

This week, Cisco put itself forth as a champion of policy-based networking, but it turns out VMware Chief Networking Architect Martin Casado has been looking in that direction too.

Layer 4-7 startup Embrane has apparently reached that point where it's time to bring in a more seasoned CEO. Bill Burns, who left Spirent in September, will be taking

Connecting physical and virtual networks is a popular theme lately. Midokura is taking that step by using VXLAN to connect its virtual network elements to Cumulus' bare metal switches.

OpenFlow 1.4 starts opening the protocol to the optical network, but the photonic layer is trickier than at the packet layer. OFC highlighted some of the challenges. Meanwhile, the

'Thought Cisco's SDN strategy was a mess? You weren't alone. It's still complex, but Cisco has honed down its message to one where SDN reigns and policy looms over

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