Here's a roundup of the week's news related to software defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) and the rest of the SDxCentral universe, starting with a few tidbits from the OCP U.S. Summit:
Radisys joined the Open Compute Project (OCP) as a silver member and launched DCEngine, an OCP-based design for hyperscale data center equipment.
Cavium announced support for the OpenSwitch network operating system and introduced APIs for its open source XPliant Programmable Switch software.
Interface Masters announced that Niagra, its leaf/spine switch based on Broadcom chips, was accepted by the OCP.
Australian operator Telstra launched its first SDN products, which it developed with Cisco. The three products are a virtual private network offering, a virtual security appliance, and a data center interconnect SDN product.
Vapor IO introduced version 1.2 of its Open Data Center Runtime Environment (OpenDCRE) and announced partnerships with AppliedMicro and Baselayer.
Versa Networks and RAD have partnered to offer a joint software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) implementation that uses a vCPE for managed VPN services that includes quality assurance, security, and network visibility.
Aryaka signed Italian firm Sinthera as an SD-WAN customer.
Edgecore Networks will resell PLUMgrid’s full SDN portfolio, including its Open Networking Suite (ONS) for OpenStack and CloudApex SDN visualization and monitoring platform.
The data center switch market grew 7 percent in 2015, according to a report by Crehan Research.
IBM teamed up with Indosat Ooredoo and Lintasarta in a five-year, $200 million deal to bring IBM Cloud to Indonesia.
Qosmos appointed Nicolas Bouthors as chief technology officer. Bouthors was previously CTO of Volubill and previously worked at Hewlett-Packard Co.
Here’s what else SDxCentral has covered lately:
- SANs Are a ‘Pain Point’ in Converged Data Centers, Says Plexxi
- Building Business Benefits for NFV
- Microsoft Provides Open Source Cloud Switch Software
- Intel Pushes FPGAs & Silicon Photonics at OCP Summit
- Google Joins the Open Compute Project Because of Rack Voltage
- Lenovo & Juniper Partner for Hyperconverged Data Center
- Equinix Taps Open Compute Hardware to Build a Container Exchange
- Open Compute Project Looks at WiFi Access Points
- vArmour Becomes a Security Option for Cisco ACI
- Versa’s Software-Defined Security Wins Business With a Systems Integrator
- RSA 2016: There Are Way Too Many Security Companies
- Security Analytics: Let’s Assume Every Perimeter Gets Breached
- EMC Builds Its NFV Architecture From the Ground Up
- Mellanox Lets Cumulus Linux Ride Its Ethernet Switches
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