NetOps teams need environments where they can build and validate their scripts and applications.

The DevOps model is coming to telecom. The only question is: how long it will take?

SDx is changing how infrastructure is bought and sold. We ID the new technical and economic buyers, movers, and shakers of SDxI.

How to effectively embed SDN for a successful implementation.

InMon president Peter Phaal shares his thoughts on the power of Open Switching Platforms and the Software Defined Data Center.

Forging partnerships and other key elements and considerations to help you deliver on the SDN vision.

When we speak with network operators, we hear angst. What does this mean for 2015? Here’s our 2015 SDN Predictions to reduce the angst.

From the very basics to carrier-class SDN. Here's a perspective of carrier SDN vs enterprise SDN viewed from the lens of SDN architectural characteristics.

What can a network engineer learn from DevOps to improve their work? Here are seven DevOps practices that are potentially valuable for IT professionals.

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

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

The DevOps matrix can be an effective tool when it comes time to catalog and roll out DevOps in your organization. Based on an approach by IT consultant Patrick

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

Online shopping platform Wanelo brings together more than 10 million registered users and 200,000 stores. After Wanelo moved to the cloud, it needed a way to manage configuration —

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

DevOps tools are just the tip of the iceberg. Agile software development, one of the most critical methodologies in DevOps, relies on people, culture, processes, and tools to establish

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

Folks at Chef get a firsthand look at how companies get good at building awesome stuff. Here are some of the traits they've observed that lead to DevOps success

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

While there are many ways to execute configuration management, implementing infrastructure and application delivery automation as code is a key first step. In this DevOps post, we take a

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

A DevOps methodology can result in a more resilient development environment. The testing of network changes, for example, could be moved away from a brute-force routine to something more

Are you a 3:00 a.m. network-configuration hero? Your organization will still need you after transitioning to DevOps, but the DevOps culture produces a different kind of hero — and

DevOps is about the expression of the system as source code. But networking does not have universal, vendor-agnostic descriptions for VLANs or even routes. Abstractions play a key role