News CenturyLink to Offer VMware Cloud on AWS By David Ramel 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 Inc. (AWS) platform. Expected to launch by winter 2019, CenturyLink Private […]
MEF Finalizes SD-WAN Definition Standard
News MEF Finalizes SD-WAN Definition Standard By David Ramel 08/21/2019 Industry association MEF has completed what it claims to be the first global standard defining a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN), along with its service attributes. Specifically, the SD-WAN Service Attributes and Services (MEF 70) “describes requirements for an application-aware, over-the-top WAN connectivity service that uses […]
Open Source flexiWAN SD-WAN Software Beta Ships
News Open Source flexiWAN SD-WAN Software Beta Ships By David Ramel 08/16/2019 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. The company emerged from stealth last spring with a mission to democratize SD-WAN with its open source, open architecture approach that […]
VMware Announces Update To VMware HCX Enterprise
News VMware Announces Update To VMware HCX Enterprise By Wendy A. Hernandez 08/12/2019 Last week (Aug. 8) VMware Inc. updated its enterprise application mobility platform VMware HCX, which the company says is designed to “simplify workload migration, workload rebalancing, and optimize disaster recovery [DR] across datacenters and clouds.” The update introduces three key features to […]
Microsoft and Cisco Collaborate To Make Containerized Apps Easier
News Microsoft and Cisco Collaborate To Make Containerized Apps Easier By Wendy A. Hernandez 08/09/2019 Recently, Cisco Systems Inc. announced that it’s collaborating with Microsoft “to make it easier for customers to rapidly — and at scale — deploy and run containerized applications across both Cisco-based on-premises environments and Microsoft Azure.” This new partnership entails […]
Masergy Updates SD-WAN Portal
News Masergy Updates SD-WAN Portal By David Ramel 08/09/2019 Software-defined networking specialist Masergy updated its portal for managing software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) applications. Leveraging embedded analytics and service controls, the Intelligent Service Control (ISC) portal helps enterprises monitor and analyze network traffic, spot application bottlenecks and make real-time […]
PacketFabric and Pureport Enter into Partnership to Simplify Cloud Connectivity
News PacketFabric and Pureport Enter into Partnership to Simplify Cloud Connectivity By Wendy A. Hernandez 08/07/2019 Today multicloud networking provider Pureport and PacketFabric, a Network-as-a-Service platform provider, announced a partnership that will enable enterprises to use PacketFabric datacenters to access Pureport’s Multicloud Fabric platform. According to the announcement, enterprises can create cloud connectivity via native […]
Broadcom’s NVMe-oF Storage Adapter to Provide OS Independence for Legacy Servers
News Broadcom’s NVMe-oF Storage Adapter to Provide OS Independence for Legacy Servers By Wendy A. Hernandez 08/06/2019 Today Broadcom Inc. announced the availability of its new NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) storage adapter that, the company says, “[is] designed to greatly simplify storage disaggregation and accelerate the adoption of storage over fabrics in cloud and enterprise […]
IBM To Offer Cloud-Native Software on Red Hat OpenShift
News IBM To Offer Cloud-Native Software on Red Hat OpenShift By Becky Nagel 08/01/2019 IBM Corp. today announced that it has reengineered its software portfolio to now be “cloud-native and optimized to run on Red Hat OpenShift.” This will allow enterprises to build “mission-critical” apps once and “run them on all leading public clouds, including […]
Capsule8 ‘Investigations’ To Provide More Proactive Prevention for Linux-Based Environments
News Capsule8 ‘Investigations’ To Provide More Proactive Prevention for Linux-Based Environments By Wendy A. Hernandez 08/01/2019 Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Capsule8 today announced new “full endpoint detection and response (EDR)-like investigations functionality for cloud workloads” for Capsule8 Protect, its platform that protects Linux-based production environments. Called “Investigations,” the new capability is “designed to remove the manual effort required […]