NEC and Dell are collaborating to deliver a high-performance SDN-enabled fabric. The announcement firms up an existing NEC/Dell partnership, and will allow Dell to sell NEC's controller, while NEC controllers are certified to use Dell switches. In doing so, NEC will expand its reach within the market, and Dell can grow its SDN portfolio.

KEMP Technologies released an ADC migration tool in its continued effort to support Cisco ACE customers. The beta version of the new product analyzes the configuration file of a Cisco ACE, and then configures it into a format that complements the KEMP LoadMaster.

Mellanox debuted Spectrum, a 100-Gb/s Ethernet, non-blocking switch. The company claims Spectrum is the first product to offer end-to-end 10-, 25-, 40-, and 50-Gb/s Ethernet connectivity.

NEC and NetCracker said Swisscom signed a memorandum of understanding with both as part of its move toward the cloud. NEC and NetCracker will help Swisscom transition to a full cloud environment by co-developing next-generation IT services, and speeding up Swisscom's virtualization features.

Startup Cohesity, launched by Nutanix founder Mohit Aron, announced $70 million in funding from two high investment rounds.

Ciena joined the Secure Autonomous Response programmable network project (Sarnet), a group focused on finding out how SDN can quell cyber attacks.

Accton contributed its switch software to the Open Networking Foundation's latest software release, Atrium.

Marie Hattar joined Ixia as chief marketing officer.

IHS research reported that bare metal switches accounted for 12 percent of data center Ethernet ports shipped worldwide in the first quarter. Other research highlights include: the ADC and WAN optimization device market went down 14 percent, and F5 claimed the top spot for virtual ADC appliance revenue, beating out Citrix in the first quarter of 2015.

Adara launched a channel and training partnership with Skyline, a big provider of Cisco networking products.

Rancher Labs released a management platform beta to run Docker containers after announcing last week it raised $10 million in its latest funding round from the Mayfield Fund.

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