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New Verizon data centers support businesses, jar suppliers

New Verizon data centers are part of a two-pronged strategy of helping customers and taming suppliers through open technology.

By Antone Gonsalves • May 2, 2016

Networking panels at Interop conference cover gamut

Interop networking track chair Tom Hollingsworth talks about the topics he believes are most important to today's networking engineers.

By Chuck Moozakis • April 29, 2016

Dell, Aerohive partner in WLAN infrastructure management

Partners Dell and Aerohive have collaborated on software for managing WLAN infrastructure hardware, including switches and access points.

By Antone Gonsalves • April 28, 2016

Veriflow aims to prevent network outages

This week, networking bloggers discuss a new way to eliminate network outages, OpenStack networking and whether SDN is novel or just natural.

By Eamon Earls • April 27, 2016

Juniper provides container firewall to banks, cloud

Juniper Networks has added a container firewall to its SRX portfolio. The latest product provides container protection for banks, carriers and cloud providers.

By Antone Gonsalves • April 26, 2016

Riverbed SD-WAN design goes beyond optimization

The Riverbed SD-WAN strategy blends optimization, orchestration, management and other services in a single platform, called SteelConnect.

By Chuck Moozakis • April 26, 2016

Carrier shift to NFV driving virtual CPE deployments

Carrier adoption of software-based network functions will lead to better virtual CPE for enterprise branch networks.

By Antone Gonsalves • April 19, 2016

How can my company reap the advantages of SDN if its culture is risk-averse?

SDN expert Will Murrell discusses how the advantages of SDN will speak to cautious companies only when network engineers can make a case for SDN's lower cost and high functionality.

By Will Murrell • April 19, 2016

Nyansa rethinks network performance monitor space

Cloud-based analytics, real-time DPI and an easy-to-digest console anchor Nyansa's network performance monitor for wired and wireless networks.

By Chuck Moozakis • April 18, 2016

Analyzing big data in the cloud to boost business

Google's GCP Next event highlights the growing trend of analyzing big data in the cloud to boost business.

By Mike Jude • April 13, 2016

Cancer Center gets help from AT&T Network on Demand

Austin, Texas, Cancer Center uses AT&T's Network on Demand to get tumor diagnoses to patients faster.

By Antone Gonsalves • April 6, 2016

U.S. hosts 72% of compromised DNS domains

This week, networking bloggers examine why the United States has so many compromised DNS domains, architecting for things and Brocade's acquisition plans.

By Eamon Earls • April 6, 2016

Managing apps requires holistic, reactive approach

Managing apps' performance must be planned holistically with an eye to reactive management and proactive management.

By Jim Metzler, Ph.D. • April 6, 2016

Brocade’s Ruckus buy betters chances in campus WLAN market

Brocade's acquisition of Ruckus Wireless would counter the stronger portfolios of Cisco and HPE for the campus WLAN.

By Antone Gonsalves • April 5, 2016

Network automation scripts: Separating myth from reality

Network automation can make work easier, but be careful which processes you automate. Done wrong, automation can break more things than it fixes.

By David Geer • April 1, 2016

Arista spine hardware aimed at largest data centers

Arista has introduced the 7500R series -- a suite of third-generation spine hardware that has a maximum capacity of 115 Tbps.

By Antone Gonsalves • April 1, 2016

Internet of Things use cases that do more than lock doors

The Internet of Things isn't only about locking doors. It's also about having a network that knows who to let in and who to keep out, without any human intervention.

By Jessica Scarpati • April 1, 2016

Users find harmony in Cisco, VMware SDN software

Baystate Health and Sugar Creek Packing give Cisco and VMware SDN software separate chores in data center networks.

By Antone Gonsalves • March 30, 2016

100 Gigabit switch sales soar

100 Gigabit Ethernet switch sales pace growth of market in '15, Comcast Business partners with AWS, and Nomadix deploys Deep Packet Inspection platform.

By Eamon Earls • March 23, 2016

Business is ‘destroying’ the application delivery process

Business has changed, and so must the application delivery process. It's time for IT to go from being provider of services to a broker between clouds and end users. Here's how.

By Jim Metzler, Ph.D. • March 23, 2016

Managing Internet of Things risks

This week, bloggers explore management for Internet of Things risks, layered protocol stacks and TELoIP's SD-WAN offering.

By Eamon Earls • March 22, 2016

AT&T reveals details of ECOMP SDN platform

AT&T is seeking developer input in deciding whether to open source its ECOMP SDN platform for self-service networking.

By Antone Gonsalves • March 17, 2016

Discover three ways to get your WAN software defined

There are three ways to get your WAN software defined: overlay, replace and as a service. Learn what these entail and how they can reduce costs and improve WAN performance.

By John Burke • March 17, 2016

AWS ushers in new era of cloud-native applications

This week, bloggers explore the arrival of cloud-native applications and platforms, as well as recap the 2016 RSA Conference and assess a new SD-WAN security offering that says no to MPLS.

By Eamon Earls • March 16, 2016

Microsoft open tech promises switch hardware independence

The latest Microsoft open tech takes the brains of data center networking out of proprietary switches and places it in hardware-agnostic software.

By Antone Gonsalves • March 15, 2016