SDN Zone Week in Review
Several interesting stories came out of the software-defined network (SDN) sector this week. Software-defined networking is an approach to networking in which control is separated from the physical hardware and given to a software application. - 05/25/2013

Openwave Mobility Launches New Version of Analytics Solution
Openwave Mobility has a new version of the Mobile Analytics solution - which can provide insights about how mobile users are consuming content. Its benefits include the possibility of hosting it in the cloud or in a network. It also can be used i… - 05/24/2013

EMC to Offer Flexible Software Defined Storage Product Later this Year
EMC will be launching ViPR, a flexible software defined storage (SDS) product, later this year. - 05/24/2013

Overture Lands $8M in Initial Equity Investment, May Go up from There
Investment commonly fuels innovation. Not only does it allow for time to be spent on creating, but it also allows for the necessary supplies to turn innovation into reality to be acquired. Overture, meanwhile, has recently announced that it will have… - 05/23/2013

The University of Technology Sydney Plans To Deploy New SDN Network
SDN (software defined communications network) will soon be deployed in Australia at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Once deployed, the university will be the largest organization to use this type of technology within the country. - 05/23/2013

Cisco Shows Strength in Software Defined Networking during Q3
When it comes to software defined networking (SDN), Cisco sees itself as the industry leader - as do many outside observers. "We feel very confident in our leadership position in this market," Cisco CEO John Chambers recently told a conference cal… - 05/23/2013

Cisco Will Dominate $35B SDN Market by 2018: Study
Termed the "Cisco killer" in certain circles, software-defined networking (SDN) is ironically putting the networking giant in a strong position to cash in on this emerging technology, according to results of a new study. - 05/21/2013

SDN Zone Week in Review
Several interesting stories came out of the software-defined network (SDN) sector this week. Software-defined networking is an approach to networking in which control is separated from the physical hardware and given to a software application. - 05/18/2013

Logicworks Improves Speed with VMware Network Virtualization
Logicworks, a provider of cloud computing and managed hosting, has selected VMware network virtualization - and is improving its all-important speed. The VMware offering lets Logicworks take on added customers quicker, and with lower costs, the co… - 05/16/2013

Cavium Debuts New LiquidIO Server Adapter Family
Cavium, a provider of highly integrated semiconductor products, unveiled its new LiquidIO Server Adapter family that can used to deploy feature rich Software Defined Networks (SDN) with built-in support for third party applications including Open vSw… - 05/15/2013

Internet2 Innovative Application Awards for 2013 Announced
The Internet2 research network has announced its Innovative Application Awards program, which will award cash prizes to the best open source end-user applications that make use of OpenFlow-enabled software defined networking (SDN) capabilities of swi… - 05/14/2013

Qosmos ixEngine Integrates with Cavium OCTEON II Processors
Qosmos, a company that deals in embedded Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and Network Intelligence (NI) technology, recently announced that it has integrated its ixEngine solution with Cavium OCTEON II processors. As a result, the company has been able t… - 05/13/2013

Open Compute Project Aims to Create Open Source Network Switch
Cisco is facing new competition from an unlikely foe: Facebook. The social media giant is targeting the network industry, with plans to create an "open source" network switch, which may prove a threat to the Ethernet switch market. - 05/13/2013

SDN Zone Week in Review
Several news announcements came out of the software-defined network (SDN) sector this week. Software-defined networking is an approach to networking in which control is separated from the physical hardware and given to a software application. Here ar… - 05/11/2013

Pertino Named Among this Year's OnDemand Top 100 Winners
Pertino is a young company - founded in 2011 - that aims to reinvent networking for the cloud era, while democratizing IT for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The company recently received some encouragement regarding its lofty cloud goals b… - 05/10/2013

Fujitsu Unwraps SDN-based Intelligent Networking and Computing Architecture
While the software defined networking (SDN) standardization process continues, several vendors have begun to tap the benefits of this emerging technology. And Fujitsu is one of them. On Wednesday, the Japanese technology giant unwrapped an Intelligen… - 05/09/2013

SDN Precon to Highlight 'Game Shifting' Industry
Software-defined networking is one of the most important, and potentially disruptive, developments in networking since the rise of the Internet. SDN turns traditional thinking on networking on its head, and approaches networking from an applications-… - 05/09/2013

Edgenet Uses OpenFlow-Enabled SDN for Converged Storage
One of the most talked about topics in the industry today is software defined networking (SDN), which is an approach to networking in which control is decoupled from hardware and given to a software application called a controller - and there's an in… - 05/09/2013

Enterasys Creates SDN Application Integration Community Platform
Enterasys Networks, a company in a joint venture with Siemens Enterprise Communications, just launched a software-defined networking (SDN) solution that can integrate with a community composed of partners that provide customer-defined applications. T… - 05/08/2013

Gigamon Unveils New Offerings to Further its Goal of a Unified Visibility Fabric Architecture
Gigamon recently strengthened its Visibility Fabric architecture with the introduction of a new Visibility Fabric node designed for branch offices, the GigaVUE-HB1. The company also unveiled a new GUI for the entire H Series product line and a proof-… - 05/07/2013

Juniper Networks Introduces Controller Technology for SDN
With cloud-based IT systems, companies are able to quickly deploy new applications and services - however, making the corresponding changes to the complex network infrastructure can take days and must be done manually. - 05/06/2013

Network Virtualization: From Softswitching to Software Defined Networking (SDN)
As someone who has worked in both the telecommunications and IT industries, I find it very interesting to note how both have influenced one another and created similar technologies. For example, texting came from the telecom world, while the IT indus… - 05/06/2013

SDN Awards to Recognize Biggest Movers and Shakers
With all the technologies making waves on how business is done today - VoIP, mobile, the cloud - software defined networking "SDN" manages to stand out as one of the most important and disruptive, and for good reason. SDN challenges the traditional n… - 05/06/2013

Power Assure Tips to Ensure Software Defined Data Center
Some may say that virtualization and cloud computing tehchology has reached the peak of its game in the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), where all IT infrastructure (servers, storage and networking) is virtualized and applications are delivered a… - 05/06/2013

SDN Zone Week in Review
Several news announcements came out of the software-defined network (SDN) sector this week. Software-defined networking is an approach to networking in which control is separated from the physical hardware and given to a software application. Here ar… - 05/04/2013

Brocade Unveils On-Demand Data Center, SDN Strategy
Capitalizing on its acquisition of Vyatta last year, Brocade has unveiled its "On-Demand Data Center" strategy, which brings together the best of virtual and physical networking technologies that can help businesses more quickly provision data center… - 05/02/2013

CANARIE and Five Other Networks Planning to Build First Ever 100 Gbps Intercontinental Transmission Links
Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network (CANARIE) is part of a global group of research and education networks that are planning to build the world's first ever 100 Gbps intercontinental transmission links for research and education. - 05/01/2013

6WIND Partners with ALTEN Group to Deliver Network Functions Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking Solutions
6WIND has entered into a partnership with ALTEN Group, a major European player in technology consulting and engineering, to deliver best-in-class Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solutions to network equipm… - 04/30/2013

It's Time to Put Intelligence Back in Networks
When Vinton Gray "Vint" Cerf talks about networks, everyone listens. Cerf and Robert Kahn designed TCP/IP protocols and the basic architecture of the Internet, so in hindsight he said software-defined networking (SDN) might have been better during hi… - 04/29/2013

Radware Unveils Comprehensive SDN Strategy, Introduces New SDN Application
Radware's SDN framework provides support for three key dimensions: SDN applications, SDN eco-system and support for technology related to SDN. To pursue its SDN strategy, the company has introduced DefenseFlow to their suite of Software Defined Netwo… - 04/29/2013

Software-Defined Storage Set to Revolutionize the Market
It's well known that software-defined computing through server virtualization has affected the server landscape significantly, while software-defined networking (SDN) is set to change the way virtual machines link together. - 04/29/2013

SDN Market Projected to Exceed $35B by 2018
The software-defined networking (SDN) market has been projected to exceed $35 billion in the next five years, according to a recent study. - 04/29/2013

Cyan Gets Ready for IPO
Cyan, a provider of software and hardware for networks, plans to hold an initial public offering in hopes of raising about $88 million in working capital. - 04/29/2013

Growth in Data Storage Market Requires Changes to Ensure Efficiency
The data storage market will be a $100 billion business in 2013, according to recent estimates from EMC. That increasing growth requires steps to ensure efficiency in the sector. - 04/29/2013

HP's New Unified and Wired Solutions Support BYOD Initiatives
Organizations around the world are eagerly putting in bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives not only to save money, but to provide a more productive environment for their workforce. In order to provide a safe environment for these devices, there h… - 04/29/2013

SDN Market Projected to Exceed $35B by 2018
The software-defined networking (SDN) market has been projected to exceed $35 billion in the next five years, according to a recent study. - 04/26/2013

SDN Zone Week in Review
Several interesting stories came out of the software-defined network (SDN) sector this week. Software-defined networking is an approach to networking in which control is separated from the physical hardware and given to a software application. - 04/20/2013

SDN Precon to Address Network Function Virtualization
The software-defined network and network virtualization have both become hot topics in communications circles in recent months, but how, if at all, do the two intersect? - 04/19/2013

Dell to Offer Customers New SDN Networking Fabric for Data Centers
Dell will offer its customers a new software-defined networking (SDN) fabric for data centers. It is being billed as offering lower costs and it is quicker than other options. The suite can also be used at virtual, converged or private cloud setti… - 04/19/2013

NTT Communications Outlines Success of its Enterprise Cloud Platform
NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) is a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT, and a provider of consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services for optimizing the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. Rec… - 04/19/2013

Radware Outlines its SDN Strategy, Releases DefenseFlow SDN Application
Provider of application delivery and security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, Radware recently added DefenseFlow to its suite of software defined networking (SDN) applications. According to the company, DefenseFlow provides organization… - 04/19/2013

Intel Outlines SDN Strategy Amid Dwindling PC Market
Add Intel to the growing list of technology companies that hope to successfully redefine their business models in the fast-approaching "post-PC" era. Chipmaker Intel recently announced a new networking strategy that's centered on software-defined net… - 04/18/2013

UBIqube Announces SDN Organization Suite
Software defined networking promises to do for networking what virtualization did for servers, giving engineers a more flexible solution by abstracting from the physical hardware. UBIqube is poised to take advantage of the revolution with its SDN Org… - 04/17/2013

Pica8 Launches Open Data Center Framework
Pica8, a creator of Software Defined Network (SDN) solutions, has announced the Pica8 Open Data Center Framework. - 04/17/2013

COMLINK Launches New Data Center Using Cyan's SDN System
To deliver services to customers with greater velocity and flexibility, Michigan-based hosting and cloud services provider COMLINK has launched a new data canter in Grand Rapids. For that, it has selected Cyan's Blue Planet software-defined network (… - 04/17/2013

LSI Unveils Axxia 4500 Family of Communication Processors
Software-defined networks (SDNs) are quickly emerging. However, they require high levels of secure communication between SDN controllers and network elements such as switches and routers. As a result, the availability of cost-effective and efficient … - 04/17/2013

Telecom Equipment Giants Come Out Strong on SDN
Software-defined networking technology is a new development on the communications scene that many believe will be disruptive and could very well be a threat to existing infrastructure suppliers. But leading telecom equipment vendors are rejecting tha… - 04/17/2013

NTT Expands SDN-Based Enterprise Cloud
NTT Communications has been an early adopter of SDN with the launch of its Enterprise Cloud, a service targeted at multinational organizations looking for highly flexible compute and other data center resources and capabilities. Enterprise Cloud,… - 04/16/2013

SDN: Software-Defined Networking Gets Good Uptake in Data Centers
It's early days for SDN, but software-defined networking technology is being used, or considered, for a variety of applications - including to interconnect data centers, and to allow broadband service providers to operate their networks more efficien… - 04/16/2013

Pica8 Introduces SDN Framework
Pica8, Inc. today officially takes the wraps off its Open Data Center Framework, which the SDN startup says provides the essential building blocks for programmable data center network mesh technology to enable agility, scale and lower costs. "By l… - 04/15/2013

SDN Zone Week in Review
Several interesting stories came out of the software-defined network (SDN) sector this week. Software-defined networking is an approach to networking in which control is separated from the physical hardware and given to a software application. - 04/13/2013

Deutsche Telecom Selects Tail-f Systems as Provider of SDN for TeraStream Project
Deutsche Telecom has selected Tail-f Systems to deliver key software components of its software-defined network (SDN) in its TeraStream project - to deliver a new networking model through a network-wide and service-aware unified application programmi… - 04/12/2013

ADARA Networks to Release Open Source SDN Controller
In a move to help advance the crusade for open networking and software-defined networking (SDN), software company ADARA Networks said it plans to launch an open controller to the SDN market. - 04/12/2013

GreenBytes Virtual Technology Secures $7M
GreenBytes, a developer of virtual desktop solutions, declared it has raised $7 million in Series C funding from Battery Ventures and Generation Investment Management LLP. GreenBytes will utilize the funding for global sales, marketing, partner de… - 04/11/2013

Cisco CTO Leaves Amid Mounting Pressure to Compete in SDN Market
Adding to the list of senior executives who recently left the networking company, 17-year Cisco veteran John McCool is stepping down from his post as chief technology officer and senior vice president of Cisco's global enterprise segment. McCool … - 04/10/2013

Network Players Pool Resources to Advance SDN in OpenDaylight Project
One of the most talked about technologies today is Software Defined Networking (SDN), which allows system administrators to rapidly provision network connections in a mechanical fashion rather than manual configuration. The expansion of data cent… - 04/08/2013

NTT Docomo Launches Technology to Improve Cloud Service Performance
One of the main considerations for organizations considering cloud-based service is their service response time. With this in mind, Japan-based mobility service provider, NTT Docomo, has developed a cloud server management technology designed to redu… - 04/08/2013

Nuage to Offer New SDN Solution for Data Center Networks after Testing Period
Alcatel-Lucent venture Nuage Networks has announced the Virtualized Services Platform (VSP), an open software-based solution that meets constraints which can sometimes limit the adoption of cloud services. Trials of VSP begin this month in Europe … - 04/04/2013

Juniper Networks Intros Three New Products to Support Emerging Applications and Growing Workloads
The new products have been introduced to bring in business agility and to help simplify network management so companies can keep pace with rapid changes in compute, storage and application requirements. - 04/04/2013

SDN Startup Midokura Secures $17.3M in Funding
Network virtualization startup Midokura has secured $17.3 million in Series A funding, which was led by Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ), a Japanese public-private partnership. The San Francisco-based company provides a software-defined… - 04/02/2013

Nuage Networks' Software Defined Network (SDN) Ready to Unclog Datacenter Arteries and Speed Cloud Services Adoption
In what could be one of its most significant announcements this year, Alcatel-Lucent has taken the covers off a new internal start-up venture, Mountain View, CA-based Nuage Networks. And, Nuage Networks (named for the French word for cloud), is not j… - 04/02/2013

New DataCore Partner Program Provides Opportunities in Storage Virtualization
The new DataCore Premier Partner Program for the Americas provides opportunities in storage virtualization in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean. Among the company's offerings is SANsymphony-V storage virtualization softwar… - 04/02/2013

Tiger Technology Rolls Out Server-Based HSM Software Platform
Storage area networking (SAN) company Tiger Technology is rolling out a new server-based Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) software platform that utilizes IBM's Linear Tape File System (LTFS) tapes and tape libraries for the Windows operating sys… - 04/02/2013

Harmony in the Cloud
To extend the flexibility of SDN to cloud infrastructure users, there is now application defined networking (ADN). Much like a conductor of an orchestra, ADN is leveraging the instrument - SDN, or the technology that transforms the network into a pro… - 04/01/2013

SDN Zone Week in Review
A couple of interesting stories came out of the software-defined network (SDN) sector this week. Software-defined networking is an approach to networking in which control is separated from the physical hardware and given to a software application. … - 03/30/2013

Overture Introduces New SDN-Based Solution
Overture earlier this month introduced its Ensemble Open Service Architecture. Today it unveils the first product family, the 6500 series, under the Ensemble OSA umbrella. The Ensemble OSA architecture, which embraces the principles of SDN and ne… - 03/26/2013

China Broadband Capital Invests in Pluribus Networks, Bets Big on Cloud Computing in China
Pluribus Networks, a provider of hardware-accelerated network virtualization for private and public cloud data centers, has procured Series C funding from China Broadband Capital (CBC). The funding will be used to meet the rising needs of customer… - 03/25/2013

SDN Zone Week in Review
It was a busy week in the software-defined network (SDN) sector. Software-defined networking is an approach to networking in which control is separated from the physical hardware and given to a software application. Here are some of the major stories… - 03/23/2013

Spirent TestCenter Availed During MPLS Ethernet World Congress
Spirent Communications, a company which tests networks, devices and services, announced on Monday that its test solution was used in a recent interoperability event hosted by the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC). - 03/22/2013

SDN is So Last Year; Now it's NFV
The answer to the question of how service providers are likely to use software-defined networking is becoming clear. In a report about mobile network virtualization, Strategy Analytics calls our attention to an important white paper issued late l… - 03/21/2013

CALIENT, Plexxi Collaboration Brings Software-Defined Networking to Data Center Networks
To bring the benefits of software-defined networking to large-scale data center networks, photonic switching technology company CALIENT Technologies and networking solutions provider Plexxi Inc. have announced a partnership. The two have integrated t… - 03/20/2013

Optical Communication Firm Source Photonics Introduces Two New SFP Onus with Embedded MAC
Source Photonics has announced a major expansion to its already impressive portfolio of optical communication components, modules and subsystems. The recent enhancement comes in the form of two new SFP ONUs. The new products have been designed for th… - 03/19/2013

EANTC to Showcase Interoperability Improvements of Carrier Ethernet 2.0, IP/MPLS, MPLS-TP, Ipv6 and Mobile Backhaul Clock Synchronization
The European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) offers consultancy services to r network equipment manufacturers, service providers and enterprise customers in the areas of interoperability, conformance and performance testing for Carrier Ethern… - 03/19/2013

Ten Reasons to Plug-In to SDN and Attend Open Networking Summit 2013
Software Defined Networking (SDN) is revolutionizing traditional networking approaches, enabling network innovation by giving network owners and operators more control of their infrastructure. SDN is maturing quickly and growing its ecosystem, but th… - 03/18/2013

SDN and IPv6 Evoke Interest Among System Administrators
SDN is the latest catchphrase among technical executives and system administrators. The SDN approach to developing computer networks, which has altered the outdated methods of manual configuration, offers speedy provision connections in a computerize… - 03/18/2013

TMCnet SDN Zone Week in Review
It was a busy week in the software-defined network (SDN) sector. Software-defined networking is an approach to networking in which control is separated from the physical hardware and given to a software application. Here are some of the major stories… - 03/16/2013

Dell Wants Software-Defined Networking Standards Committee in OMG
Dell wants to see a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) standards committee in the influential Object Management Group (OMG). - 03/15/2013

Pivotal Formed by VMWare, EMC as Demand Increases for Data Analytics Software
VMware and parent company EMC Corp have come up with a new business, Pivotal Inc., which projects $1 billion in revenue in a few years. - 03/15/2013

Updated Google BigQuery Processes Large Data with Simplicity, Speed
While data analytics may look simple and useful for many organizations, it may not reap the same benefits for many other businesses, both small and big. Despite having in-house highly skilled staff, they often struggle to deliver what the organizatio… - 03/15/2013

Riverbed's FlyScript Brings Programmability to All Layers of Network
In order to combine all of its products into a unified system that can be customized to solve application performance problems, Riverbed Technology has released a new set of APIs, SDKs and scripting tools. According to SearchNetworking.com, River… - 03/15/2013

An Architecture for the Application Age: SDN Turns Networking Upside Down
SDN is considered by many to be one of the most important, and potentially disruptive, developments in networking since the rise of the Internet. To date, networks and connectivity have come first, and applications have followed. The software-defined… - 03/15/2013

Dell Proposes a Standards Setting Committee for Software-Defined Networking
Software-defined networking (SDN) is an approach to networking in which control is separated from the physical hardware and given to a software application. This application is called a controller. Normally, when a packet arrives at a switch in a con… - 03/15/2013

Open Data Center Alliance Welcomes CohesiveFT as New Member
CohesiveFT has reportedly joined the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), as a Solution Provider Member. The company's work in cloud services and data center solutions is expected to add a valuable perspective to the ODCA, and contribute to its overall … - 03/14/2013

Hewlett-Packard Unveils SDN Strategy
Hewlett-Packard (HP) revealed its software-defined networking (SDN) strategy, and company officials expect the technology will go mainstream within the next few years. In fact, HP predicts SDNs will be deployed enterprise-wide in 2015, and repres… - 03/14/2013

Compass-EOS Unveils Fast r10004 Router System
A major concern for service providers today is how to scale their networks while simplifying operations and improving utilization. Compass-EOS, a source of router systems, is set to address this concern by building a new breed of routers. The com… - 03/14/2013

Compass-EOS Launches Direct Silicon-to-Photonics-Based Router Family
To deliver fiber-based broadband technology to enhance people's lives, Compass-EOS has introduced the r10004, the next-generation, core-grade modular router, specifically designed to increase network capacity and speed. The r10004 runs on icPhoto… - 03/13/2013

Colo Atl Expands its network in Atlanta to Accommodate Growing Demand for SDN Peering, Colocation
The neutral-carrier colocation and interconnection solutions provider, Colo Atl, recently announced that it has expanded its network in Atlanta, successfully completing a massive build-out of its facility in downtown Atlanta. Catering to the grow… - 03/13/2013

SDN Provider Embrane Teams Up with World Wide Technology
Silicon Valley-based Embrane, a provider of software-defined network (SDN) services, has teamed up with World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), a systems integrator that provides technology and supply chain solutions. WWT is partnering with Embrane to off… - 03/12/2013

Big Switch's Senior Architect Appointed as Chair of Open Networking Foundation's TAG
Big Switch Networks, specializing in the supply of platform-independent software-defined networking (SDN), announced the appointment of Dan Talayco as chair of the open networking foundation's technical advisory group. Dan is a senior architect a… - 03/12/2013

Overture Unveils Ensemble Open Service Architecture for Service Providers
Overture, a carrier Ethernet edge and aggregation partner for service providers and network operators, released its Ensemble Open Service Architecture or Ensemble OSA that will cater to the needs of service providers by helping them reduce costs and … - 03/11/2013

Radware Announces Collaborative Effort with Mellanox Technologies
Radware, a provider of application delivery and application security solutions, and Mellanox Technologies, a supplier of end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services, reportedly forged a partnership to blend the capabilities… - 03/11/2013

SDNZone Week in Review
It was a busy week in the SDNZone sector. Here are some of the major stories from TMCnet. A new MeriTalk study, "Infrastructure Independence: Set My IT Free" - sponsored by Brocade Communications Systems - analyzes the effects of moving to a multi… - 03/09/2013

Alliance for Open-Source SDN Controller 'Daylight' Breaks Open
When Cisco gets angry, it also gets even. That's what VMWare started to find out last month out as rumors surfaced about the creation of a software defined networking (SDN) controller named "Daylight." - 03/08/2013

SDN, Large-Scale Network Virtualization Drive Change in Telecom Networks
Two emerging industry technologies known as software-defined network (SDN) and large-scale network virtualization are coming together to drive a more software-centric and programmable telecom infrastructure and services ecosystem, according to new re… - 03/08/2013

New MeriTalk Study: Infrastructure Independence Increases Network Performance
A new MeriTalk study, "Infrastructure Independence: Set My IT Free," analyzes the effects of moving to a multi-vendor environment. The study was sponsored by Brocade Communications Systems Inc., a technology multinational company specializing in data… - 03/08/2013

Colo Atl Equips its Downtown Atlanta's 55 Marietta Street Facility with Significant Upgrades
Colo Atl, a provider of carrier-neutral colocation data center and interconnection services, reportedly upgraded its 55 Marietta Street facility in downtown Atlanta in order to accommodate increased colocation and SDN peering demand. The upgrades … - 03/08/2013

ExaGrid Systems and ATScloud Enter Strategic Partnership
ExaGrid Systems Inc., a major player in scalable and cost-effective disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication; and ATScloud, the premiere hybrid-cloud solution provider, have entered into a strategic partnership to offer customers cloud-bas… - 03/08/2013

HP's Unified Wired, Wireless Networks offer Complete Networking BYOD Solutions
In February of this year, Hewlett Packard (HP) announced that it had a new unified solution for wired and wireless networks. This solution would deliver a simple, scalable and secure network that would support bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives… - 03/08/2013

Mellanox Launches Open Ethernet Initiative
Mellanox, a manufacturer of interconnect solutions for data center and storage systems, has launched the "Generation of Open Ethernet" initiative. The company believes the shift toward "Web 2.0" technology, and its reliance on open standards and o… - 03/08/2013

Pertino Secures $20M in Series B Funding
Pertino, a company involved with software defined networking (SDN), recently raised $20 million in a Series B funding round led by Jafco Ventures and contributed to by previous investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners. This … - 03/08/2013

Mellanox Technologies Announces 'Generation of Open Ethernet' Initiative
Supplier of high-performance end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, Mellanox Technologies, this week launched a new initiative called "Generation of Open Ethernet." Meant as an alternative to traditional closed… - 03/07/2013

The Promise of SDN
Software defined networking (SDN) has the promise to change networking in a big way. And Huawei, at least, is excited by what the technology will do for the industry. - 03/07/2013

The Programmable Enterprise is Changing the Business Landscape
In a keynote talk at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week, Apigee CEO Chet Kapoor said that the programmable enterprise is revolutionizing the way businesses operate. During the presentation, Kapoor extolled the virtues of an open digital eco… - 03/06/2013

Xilinx Unveils Solutions for Next-Generation Smarter Networks and Data Centers
ASIC and ASSP vendors often struggle to meet the needs of next-generation systems as they demand increased intelligence and flexibility. Along with these challenges, they also struggle with rising IC design costs. - 03/05/2013

Startup Embrane Plunges Head First into Growing SDN Market
Startup software-defined network (SDN) service provider Embrane has added two big names to its client roster as it focuses higher up the stack, to Layers 3-7, where the virtual services that will run atop the SDN infrastructure live. - 03/04/2013

Polystar Reveals Partnership with Qosmos for Delivery of Mobile Data Intelligence Solutions
Polystar, a major name in the service assurance supply as well as test solutions and network monitoring for the telecom market, recently revealed its partnership with Qosmos, a leading company with specialization in Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and N… - 03/01/2013

Exinda Urges CIOs to Keep it Simple in the New 2013 'Top Five Networking Objectives' List
This year will prove successful for CIOs and senior network managers who focus their business practices on three important objectives, says Exinda: simplify, consolidate, and control. - 03/01/2013

Latest F5 Traffix Solution Offers SDN-Ready Diameter Signaling
F5 Networks Inc. announced on Friday its newest software product release, the Traffix Signaling Delivery Controller, which is optimized for software defined networking (SDN). - 03/01/2013

SDN Growth Earns Nexenta $24M Investment Funding
Software-defined storage vendor, Nexenta Systems, has garnered $24 million in its fourth round of funding, with investments from existing venture capital investors and a few new ones as well. This large sum is even more proof of the growing popul… - 03/01/2013

OpenStack Embeds Coraid Drivers in its Software-Defined Storage
OpenStack Block Storage has deployed Coraid's drivers for ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) and Coraid EtherCloud to OpenStack Block Storage. OpenStack will launch OpenStack, codenamed Grizzly, embedded with the drivers in April 2013, and will showcase the pow… - 03/01/2013

ADARA's Ecliptic Meta Controller Unveiled
ADARA Networks has announced its debut of the Ecliptic Meta Controller, a first-of-its-kind layer 1-7 controller, which fills in the existing gaps within the Software Defined Networking (SDN) space. Currently available in software only for a fully… - 03/01/2013

Canadian Networking Company BTI Systems Reveals Intelligent Cloud Connect Platform
Canadian networking software and systems company, BTI Systems, has revealed an open software-rich platform that combines network intelligence and application awareness with significantly expanded capacity and scale. In essence, it is a SDN-enable… - 02/28/2013

Anuta Enhances its nCloudX Platform to Benefit Cloud Service Providers, Enterprises
Anuta Networks, specializing in network services virtualization solutions, enhanced its nCloudX platform so that cloud service providers and enterprises can benefit from a software defined data center. - 02/28/2013

Aricent Showcases SDN and OpenFlow Readiness of ISS
The Aricent Group has showcased the compatibility of Software Defined Networking or SDN/ OpenFlow with Intelligent Switching Solutions, or ISS, to its major customers and associates. A minimum of 125 customers across the globe utilize the Aricent Gro… - 02/28/2013

MontaVista Unveils Real-time Telco Cloud Infrastructure Solution
MontaVista Software, a specialist in providing embedded Linux commercialization services, released the new real-time telco cloud infrastructure (RTCI) solution that will let telco grade equipment use standard server form factors. - 02/28/2013

Websense Extends TRITON Security Alliance with Top Technology Partners
Websense Inc., a company that provides solutions to protect organizations from the latest cyber attacks and data theft, recently extended the Websense TRITON Security Alliance with top technology partners. The TRITON Security Alliance members hav… - 02/27/2013

Tekelec Introduces ThinkingNetworks Vision
Tekelec is at Mobile World Congress this week telling its story about how it can help service providers evolve to be "digital lifestyle providers," and as a result, become more relevant in today's environment. That story involves four overlapping… - 02/27/2013

Ulticom Unveils Version 3.3 of its Diameter Signaling Controller
Ulticom, a company specializing in Diameter signaling software solutions, announced the release of version 3.3 of the Ulticom DSC. The Ulticom DSC distributes load across the server pools, provides application specific routing optimization, and dy… - 02/26/2013

Jeda Networks Announces Future Storage Network Technology
Jeda Networks, a specialist in networking and seasoned storage, recently announced its future storage framework for networking, named Software-Defined Storage Networks. This is Jeda Networks' effort to deal with issues such as scalability, complexity… - 02/22/2013

Juniper Networks Speeds up Building of Software-Defined Networks with New Software, Services
Juniper Networks has new software and services to speed up the building of software-defined networks (SDN). - 02/22/2013

Tekelec Presents ThinkingNetworks at Mobile World Congress 2013
Tekelec, a mobile broadband solutions organization, recently announced that it will present a four-phase development to software-defined ThinkingNetworks at Mobile World Congress 2013. - 02/21/2013

Nvidia Introduces Tegra 4i SoC with Software-Defined Radio
Graphics card and mobile chip manufacturer Nvidia recently introduced its latest system on chip (SoC) mobile processor, the Tegra 4i. Previously known by its codename, Grey, this is the company's first processor to include a software-defined radio in… - 02/20/2013

Extreme Networks Intros ExtremeXOS v15.3
Extreme Networks has announced the availability of its ExtremeXOS v15.3, a single modular Operating System built specifically for the data center, campus BYOD and the cloud. Officials at Extreme said that with the release of ExtremeXOS 15.3, they … - 02/15/2013

Gluware WAN OS Debuts to Take Complexity Out of Implementation, Monitoring and Maintenance of NGWAN
In a game-changing move for the communication industry, network automation technology company Glue Networks introduced the industry's first SDN WAN Operating System (OS), which automatically builds, maintains, monitors and manages next-gen wide area … - 02/15/2013

Ericsson Discusses SDN Product, New AIR Solution
Ericsson today issued a flurry of mobile news announcements, including the unveiling of the SDN-based Ericsson Cloud System, the launch of an addition to its Antenna Integrated Radio line, and much more. The company made the announcements at a Lo… - 02/13/2013

Pertino Launches Limited Release of SDN Cloud Networks for SMBs
Cloud networking software provider Pertino is offering a limited release of its cloud-based Software-Defined Network (SDN) service for small and medium-sized businesses, which company officials are touting as "disruptively simple." - 02/12/2013

Enterprise Networking Challenge: Smart Investments to the Rescue!
Many enterprises in the Middle East are facing a huge challenge in managing their networks due to the sheer volume of new data being thrown around. How do we handle, store and transport massive amounts of data, migrate to IPv6, and deal with user gro… - 02/12/2013

F5 Networks Acquires LineRate Systems for Use of SDN
Looking to improve the functioning of software-defined data centers, F5 Networks has acquired LineRate Systems. This acquisition will allow F5 to have access to LineRate's layer 7+ networking services technology. The company will also have access… - 02/11/2013

Dell Introduces New Switches for Data Centers, Cloud Computing
Dell is introducing new switches for data centers and cloud computing - as more servers move toward 10-Gigabit Ethernet and changes are found in top-of-rack switches. The company's new S4820T top-of-rack (ToR) switch is designed for use in high-pe… - 02/08/2013

Intel Invests in SDN Vendor Big Switch Networks
Software-defined networking outfit Big Switch Networks today announced it has received new funding through a Series B round, which included Intel Capital as a new investor. Big Switch to date has received more than $45 million in funding from new… - 02/08/2013

SDN Precon Panel Aims to Define, Assess the Software-Defined Network
Earlier this week at ITEXPO Miami's SDN Precon, a panel of experts attempted to tackle some key questions around the software-defined network, including what it is, why it's important and where it's going. The panelists seemed to agree SDN is an … - 02/01/2013

OpenFlow Tests Hold Promise of Extending the Open Standard to the Optical Layer
Virtualization in the enterprise environment has been progressive. It started with resource virtualization to deliver economic savings through scalability and redundancy in data centers. This resulted in higher availability, greater infrastructure fl… - 01/30/2013

NoviFlow Offers High-Performance OpenFlow 1.1 for Network Equipment Manufacturers
Speed is the name of the game for network service providers. If the data an organization wants to get to their customer is not delivered in a timely manner, they'll find a better network. As the number of mobile devices increases and networks get… - 01/30/2013

NetCitadel Announces New Software-defined Solution for Centralizing Security Intelligence
Specializing in Security Orchestration, NetCitadel, Inc., today announced the release of its OneControl Security Orchestration Platform (SOP). OneControl is reported to make current security infrastructure more dynamic and sophisticated, enabling acc… - 01/30/2013

SDN Preconference to Take Place Jan. 29 at ITEXPO Miami
SDN has become a hot topic of late. To help ITEXPO Miami attendees get a better handle on what it's all about and how they can benefit from it, TMC this month will include a preconference on SDN. The SDN Preconference will take place Tuesday, Jan. 29… - 01/22/2013

Giants of Networking Snap Up SDN Outfits
Software-defined network is considered by many to be one of the most important, and potentially disruptive, developments in networking since the rise of the Internet. To date, networks and connectivity have come first, and applications have followed.… - 01/21/2013

Dutch Company Elephant Talk Signs SDN Contract in Latin American Market
Elephant Talk is a provider of enterprise solutions for managing network, infrastructure, and electronic fraud within telecommunications and financial services industries. Having recently announced the acquisition of Telnicity's, a U.S. MVNE/MVNO bas… - 01/18/2013

Juniper Details SDN Strategy, New Software Licensing Model
Juniper Networks today laid out the details of its strategy around the software-defined network. This comes about a month after Juniper announced plans to acquire SDN outfit Contrail Systems. - 01/15/2013

Cisco Addresses What Some See as the SDN Threat
The software-defined network has received a lot of attention in recent months as several leading companies have snapped up SDN suppliers. These SDN reports often include mentions about how traditional equipment outfits, particularly Cisco Systems, co… - 01/15/2013

ABI: SDN to Play a Core Role in 4G Networks
New data out from ABI Research indicates that SDN and virtualization of the Evolved Packet Core will be a $400 million market by 2018. - 01/15/2013

ACG Analyst: SDN Becomes Disruptive Force in Networking
SDN is one of the most disruptive developments in networking since the rise of the Internet. That's the word from Eve Griliches, vice president of optical research at ACG Research. - 01/15/2013