Vyatta let me know about the release of their newest edition of their network operating system. Vyatta Network OS V6.5 (VNOS) added support the use of Microsoft's Hyper-V as well as features to expand ...

Avaya Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture, or Avaya VENA, supports the emerging IEEE 802.1AQ Shortest Path Bridging standard. It's a software upgrade to Avaya's 8600, 8800 and VSP 9000 Ethernet ...

HP Networking and Juniper Networks are throwing their weight behind VMware's emerging software-defined data center strategy, with both vendors revealing this week plans to leverage VMware's new NSX ...

VergeIO wants to win over companies that are discontent with Broadcom's VMware changes. Its latest VergeFabric SDN release includes more advanced BGP routing, security monitoring, and ...

The network team is being bombarded with configuration requests that can take days or weeks to handle, but luckily several approaches are emerging that promise to increase network agility, chief among ...

In 2014, companies and open source programmers alike are working as hard as they can to virtualize hardware into software. The latest example of this is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The ...

VMWare NSX looks set to be its next growth engine. We assess the potential and the impact along with competitive threats both known and unknown. VMware might soon have to change its name: not by ...

NV provides the ability to create logical, virtual networks that are decoupled from the underlying network hardware. NV creates a logical, software-based view of the hardware and software networking ...

While the advantages of virtualization are widely acknowledged with regard to servers, desktops and storage devices, this is also leading military organizations to examine how virtualization can be ...

Big Switch Networks, a startup just emerging from stealth mode, is said to be building a new platform that will bring the benefits of virtualization and cloud architecture to enterprise networks. To ...

When global economies are disrupted, people adapt and innovation occurs. With a global pandemic causing major disruptions to traditional business operations, the world has to adapt — and it is. We all ...

At online meetings and conferences, many sessions are advertised as virtual networking opportunities today. However, in reality, they aren't effective ways to do networking. Networking was perhaps ...