AT&T submitted specifications for a new white-box architecture to the Open Compute Project, targeting service provider-class routers with chips optimized for 400G speeds to meet evolving network demands.
Network access products specialist ADTRAN announced a new software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) offering that targets the small and medium-sized business (SMB) and distributed enterprise markets.
In the growing software-defined wide-area network space, vendors are tapping products from leading powerhouses such as Cisco, Juniper and VMware to augment their offerings.
Aryaka, known for its managed software-defined wide-area network offering, has added connectivity options with what it calls HybridWAN.
Since its inception, the bailiwick of the disruptive software-defined networking movement has expanded to all sorts of use cases, with network connectivity now joining the crowd, offered by the firm Stateless Inc.
In a move targeting enterprise hybrid cloud customers, Oracle and VMware are teaming up to enable organizations to run VMware Cloud Foundation on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
Cybersecurity specialist Illumio boosted its flagship platform with new functionality addressing containerized workloads.
A new partnership in the burgeoning software-defined networking space sees NEC Corp. wedding its software-defined network-based unified communication offering with Infovista's Ipanema (software-defined wide-area network.
The ONF says Stratum is an open source, silicon-independent switch operating system for software-defined networks that runs on a variety of switching silicon and various whitebox switch platforms.
After an uneven start, the software-defined networking movement has matured and evolved to include fast-growing initiatives such as software-defined wide-area-networking (SD-WAN) and the security-oriented Software Defined Perimeter.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company unveiled four new products and a service in connection with the VMworld 2019 conference held late last month.
- By Scott Bekker
- 09/09/2019
Untangle Inc. published a study on IT security in small and medium-size businesses, concluding that cloud-based services and the increasing number of branch office networks are promoting the rise of software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN).
Dell Technologies has unveiled new offerings in the software-defined wide-area-networking space, incorporating hardware from Dell EMC and VMware-based software.
VMware is adding support for Microsoft's Hyper-V to its Workstation product, allowing it to tap other Microsoft technologies that depend on the Windows hypervisor.
VMware already has extensive plans for repurposing Carbon Black's technology to improve security in vSphere, Workspace ONE, NSX and other products over the next few years.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/27/2019
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger described plans to expand the VMware-Microsoft cloud offering during his VMworld 2019 keynote on Monday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/26/2019
All the best new product names and code names spoken during the VMworld kickoff keynote had to do with Kubernetes.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/26/2019
Ahead of this week's VMworld conference, telecommunications provider CenturyLink pre-emptively announced some VMware news of its own with the unveiling of an upcoming VMware-based private cloud service on the Amazon Web Services.
Industry association MEF has completed what it claims to be the first global standard defining a software-defined wide-area network, along with its service attributes.
Israeli start-up flexiWAN announced a beta version of its open source, open architecture software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) software is available for download.