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Digital transformation to be major theme in ONUG 2016 fall conference

Nick Lippis, co-founder and co-chairman of ONUG, describes what to expect from ONUG 2016. Major topics will include digital transformation and its effect on the IT industry.

By Jennifer English • Oct. 13, 2016

Digital infrastructure technology is the ‘glue’ of cohesion

This week, bloggers look into digital infrastructure technology, threat fatigue and virtual appliance optimization for data centers.

By Eamon Earls • Oct. 12, 2016

Avaya joins vendors offering cloud-based management of WLANs

Avaya plans to offer in the first half of next year cloud-based management for its access switches and WLAN 9100 access points.

By Antone Gonsalves • Oct. 7, 2016

CN Tower climbs heights with mobile engagement platform

The CN Tower, Canada's tallest building, implements an Aruba mobile engagement platform to connect with customers.

By Eamon Earls • Oct. 5, 2016

CloudPhysics details virtual machine cost in the cloud

This week, bloggers look into virtual machine cost in the cloud, incident response automation and untangling Mac OS X PPTP connections.

By Eamon Earls • Oct. 4, 2016

Amidst complex infrastructures, network visualization is needed

Today's networks are increasingly complex. An overhaul in network visualization is needed to help parse and diagnose modern networks.

By Destiny Bertucci • Oct. 3, 2016

DirecTV Now on target to become AT&T’s main video platform

AT&T plans to test wireless broadband traveling near power lines; AT&T pushes its online-streaming platform, DirecTV Now; and Yahoo and Verizon weigh the effects of the largest recorded company hack on its deal.

By Jennifer English • Sept. 30, 2016

SD-WAN vendors seek larger market slice through partnerships, services

Silver Peak, Versa Networks and Viptela are the latest SD-WAN vendors to launch partnerships and services in a market expected to top $6 billion by 2020.

By Antone Gonsalves • Sept. 27, 2016

Data-center-to-cloud, direct-connection platform wins innovation award

The Console networking platform bypasses the public internet to offer subscribers on-demand, one-to-one connections with cloud providers and other partners.

By Alissa Irei • Sept. 26, 2016

New Cisco professional services aimed at hybrid clouds

The latest Cisco professional services are aimed at helping companies build and manage hybrid clouds. The offering reflects a shift in Cisco's cloud strategy.

By Antone Gonsalves • Sept. 23, 2016

ONF Project Boulder continues working toward SDN interoperability

SDN market-watchers discussed Project Boulder's SDN interoperability trial, nine good reasons to buy white box switches and Riverbed's latest SD-WAN strategy.

By Jennifer English • Sept. 22, 2016

The white box switching market gets a closer look

Following years of development, is the potential of the white box switching market finally being realized?

By Andrew Froehlich • Sept. 20, 2016

Masergy, Interoute to offer Silver Peak managed SD-WAN services

Silver Peak has joined a growing list of WAN vendors partnering with service providers to roll out managed SD-WAN services for enterprise customers.

By Kate Gerwig • Sept. 19, 2016

ExtraHop 6.0 adds new packet search to IT analytics platform

ExtraHop introduces a new IT analytics appliance that lets IT search and download packets associated with a particular transaction.

By Chuck Moozakis • Sept. 16, 2016

NFV, SD-WAN and vCPE shift scope of managed WAN services

This week, a networking analyst examines the future of managed WAN services, while another one remembers his time at EMC in the wake of last week's Dell-EMC merger.

By Eamon Earls • Sept. 14, 2016

Riverbed SD-WAN upgrade means tighter integration for SteelConnect

The Riverbed SD-WAN refresh means companies can swap out existing routers; UNH opens a testing lab for 25 GbE; and Gartner warns NAC policies need tightening.

By Chuck Moozakis • Sept. 14, 2016

Mushroom adds new WAN tools with VNF library

With its new VNF Design Studio, Mushroom Networks says it is providing customers with a whole new set of WAN tools to improve performance.

By Chuck Moozakis • Sept. 13, 2016

The new Dell talks up cloud, convergence, but networking plans vague

The new Dell Technologies is bullish on hybrid cloud, convergence and cloud-native applications for enterprises, but Dell networking plans weren't in the spotlight.

By Chuck Moozakis • Sept. 8, 2016

Network pricing may not matter very much to enterprises

This week, networking analysts discuss network pricing in enterprise decision making, Huawei's entry into the SD-WAN market and the message of VMworld 2016.

By Eamon Earls • Sept. 7, 2016

Automation key element in network monitoring best practices

The fundamentals underpinning network monitoring might be simple, but it doesn't mean keeping tabs on your network is easy. What can you do to improve your monitoring tool framework?

By Leon Adato • Sept. 6, 2016

Enterprise public and private cloud workloads rise

ICYMI: Enterprise cloud workloads grow, Check Point tracks ransomware as a service and Cisco continues to dominate in the routing and switching market.

By Eamon Earls • Sept. 2, 2016

Cisco ContainerX buy a step toward readying ACI for the cloud

Cisco's acquisition of startup ContainerX provides the networking company with technology to help ready ACI for container orchestration in the cloud.

By Antone Gonsalves • Sept. 1, 2016

IP subnetting: How to calculate subnet masks

Check out IP subnetting shortcuts on how to do subnet mask calculations and break down IP address classes to route traffic within your network.

By Mimi Shaw • Aug. 29, 2016

SDN, open source nexus to accelerate service creation

What's new in the SDN blog world? One expert says SDN advancements will be accelerated, thanks to SDN and open source convergence, while another points out the influence SDN has in the cloud industry.

By Jennifer English • Aug. 25, 2016

IT professionals aim to operationalize threat intel in the enterprise

This week, networking bloggers look into operationalizing threat intel, Google Fiber's deployment and home lab spending.

By Eamon Earls • Aug. 24, 2016