One case study suggests how an overlay SDN model can be a key part of a hybrid cloud model, helping an enterprise adopt public clouds without having to migrate

October has been a thicket of conferences related to SDN and NFV. In this latest NFV blog post, Marc Cohn looks at how operators' thinking around NFV has changed

SDN has a place in optical transport. With recent advances turning the optical core into more of a switched and meshed architecture, it's time to start dynamically provisioning the

Where is ATCA's place in an NFV world? The platform-level standard for telecom hardware is not made obsolete by NFV's use of standard chips; in fact, ATCA still has

SDN's success rides not on arguments about OpenFlow or OVSDB, but on what it can do for applications. It's going to be about giving DevOps teams the automation, visibility,

Network monitoring typically takes but cannot give — it reads data from the network, but can't instruct the network on how to improve, at least not in any timely

What are the network requirements to support NFV? The ETSI group defining NFV set that question aside at first, but some clear patterns are emerging in terms of service-provider

Sharon Barkai of startup ConteXtream found a good amount of SDN information being presented at Sigcomm recently. He gives a rundown of talks that covered fault tolerance, elastic controllers,

What's going on inside the ETSI NFV group, and who are these guys, anyway? In this first of a series of posts about NFV, Marc Cohn discusses the group's

The NSX announcement for software-defined networking (SDN) sure got a lot of attention, but is the product all that necessary?

Virtualize It and They Shall Come: SDN and WAN Orchestration

NFV Group Flocks to Proof-of-Concept Demos

SDN: Who Does the Programming? And What Is The Level Of Abstraction We Need?

Six Campus Networks SDN Use Cases That You Need to Know About

Is SDN For Real? And If So, What Is It? By Sunil Khandekar

SDN And The Forgotten Data Plane – Is My Flow Equal To Your Flow?

OpenDaylight Project: The Speed Promise By Kelly Herrell

SDN: Software Defined Everything: Infrastructure Integration Will Never Be The Same

SDN – What Can You Do With It In The Enterprise?

Things To Consider For Your SDN Strategy: OpenFlow

OpenDaylight: Opportunity or Threat? It's in the eye of the beholder

Oh No, Not Again: The “God Box” Idea Hits SDN

What (if Any) Part of the Networking Value Chain Will Be Disrupted by SDN?

SDNCentral's 2013 Kick-Off - More $1B Acquisitions?