In today's world, should we automate configuration and delivery of services? Or should we first focus on integrating APIs and automation?

SDN and NFV, if fully realized, can benefit carriers, but that's only part of the story. Real-time visibility is critical to successful SDN and NFV rollouts and a key

Read about the shifting to NFV: the service velocity, and the resulting democratization of applications and services that come from a NFV architecture.

A Software-defined networking market transition enables unprecedented value from our networks. Read more about the SDN market and an open, evolutionary approach that is required.

IT operations historically have adhered to the philosophy that maintaining stability=good, taking risks=bad. But today’s faster-paced business environment demands more responsive change control. DevOps practices can help IT professionals

In NFV, the distinction between management and orchestration of VNFs is an emerging and nebulous area. Here's one take at how the two differ and how they work together.

This article is about Facebook and the Wedge, startups forging deals combining SDN with powerful commodity hardware and the SDN world joining next-generation infrastructure.

While traditional vendors rush to show the world how they can support virtualized functions tuned to their way of doing business, it is unlikely that all vendors will survive

With Cisco's recent acquisition of Tail-f, you might be wondering which Software Defined Networking (SDN) startups could be next. SDNCentral has the full analysis, including a list of the

SDN for transport networks — Layer 0 and Layer 1 —is easy to talk about, but real-life 100G and ROADM networks have a lot of complexity to consider. Finding

SDN and NFV can pave the way to heavier automation and a software-defined infrastructure. But that road is full of obstacles related to visibility, security, and the language used

The Arista IPO is nice and all, but Arista isn't an SDN pure-play. Other SDN startups take a more radical approach to software-based networking, and they're plentiful enough to

Extending the argument about how NFV can help mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), we look at how Amazon- or Google-sized MVNOs, in turn, could apply big data to generate

Implementing NFV in the wireless network could bring previously unheard-of levels of visibility and control into the MVNO market by giving wireless-service resellers a piece of the network to

DevOps relies on workflow automation to support evolving software function and programming. At the heart of automation lies standardization: the ability to meet demand, maintain a standard, and be

Arista's IPO could do something that markets haven’t seen in a long time: turn networking into a 'hot' sector. And plenty of pre-IPO companies are waiting to follow suit.

For most networking professionals getting familiar with DevOps, the tooling framework consists primarily of deployment and provisioning tools like Chef and Puppet. But the continuum of DevOps tools spans

While it's clearly not a conceptual requirement to implement SDN and NFV together, the technologies complement one another and work well together in supporting a software-defined data center.

The Internet of Things (or Internet of Everything) looms large when you consider the challenges CIOs will face in the next five to 10 years. Facing that challenge will

Network Functions Virtualization offers a key solution by delivering an alternative platform to create services and applications on flexible network architectures. However, if the proper software architecture is not

Changes such as NFV won't allow telecom to sacrifice fundamentals such as high availability. But NFV does give us an opportunity to rethink some principles of the network, starting

SDN really can help a telco go green. When we talk about managing the carbon footprint and keeping energy costs low — for example, in the diesel-fueled mobile networks

Orchestration can be the key to reconciling a carrier's legacy OSS/BSS platforms with newer NFV deployments. However, the needs of development and test organizations call for a particular type

Surrounded by mystery and controversy, and dogged by apathy, DevOps is a bit misunderstood. Really, it's about taking some well established principles of software development and applying them to