News Amdocs Teams Up for SDN, NFV Orchestration Package By David Ramel 10/11/2018 Amdocs has teamed up with Fortinet and Versa Networks to offer a new multi-domain, service provider SD-WAN, software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) orchestration solution. The solution integrates the Amdocs NFV technology — powered by the open source Open Networking […]
NVIDIA Announces Enhancements to Quadro vDWS
News NVIDIA Announces Enhancements to Quadro vDWS By Wendy A Hernandez 10/10/2018 This week at the GPU Technology Conference in Munich, Germany, NVIDIA announced new capabilities to its Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation (Quadro vDWS). According to the blog post, “Quadro vDWS with multi-GPU performance enables professionals to work remotely on any device, while their […]
Firm Unveils SDN/NFV as a Service
News Firm Unveils SDN/NFV as a Service By David Ramel 10/08/2018 Netcracker Technology is leveraging software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) to offer a full-stack package for delivering turnkey cloud applications and virtual network services. Targeting the service provider market, the Netcracker Business Cloud seeks to help them quickly deliver full-stack, modular B2B […]
Facebook Hack Did Not Affect Microsoft Azure AD B2C Service
News Facebook Hack Did Not Affect Microsoft Azure AD B2C Service By Kurt Mackie 10/08/2018 In an Oct. 4, 2018, Service blog post Microsoft said that the Facebook hack last month that potentially exposed the access tokens of about 50 million Facebook users did not affect Microsoft’s Azure Active Directory B2C service. The breach occurred […]
Palo Alto Networks To Acquire RedLock
News Palo Alto Networks To Acquire RedLock By Wendy A Hernandez 10/05/2018 This week Palo Alto Networks announced its plans to acquire cloud security provider RedLock Inc. for approximately $173 million in cash. With the acquisition expected to be finalized in Palo Alto Networks’ first fiscal quarter, RedLock cofounders Varun Badhwar and Gaurav Kumar will […]
Virtual Network Functions Going Cloud Native in Containers
News Virtual Network Functions Going Cloud Native in Containers By David Ramel 10/02/2018 Remember network functions virtualization (NFV)? It seemingly only just arrived along with other disruptive, next-gen networking advances like software-defined networking (SDN) to shake up the once-staid networking space. The new network architecture followed the software-centric approach, virtualizing network node functions into discrete […]
Survey Shows Service Provider Confidence in Open Source, SDN
News Survey Shows Service Provider Confidence in Open Source, SDN By David Ramel 10/01/2018 The Linux Foundation published results of an industry survey that revealed strong confidence among communication services providers (CSPs) in open source networking, and software-defined networking (SDN) in particular. The foundation announced the results during the Open Networking Summit Europe in Amsterdam, […]
RedLock Cloud 360 Security Enhancements Aimed at Microsoft Azure Users
News RedLock Cloud 360 Security Enhancements Aimed at Microsoft Azure Users By Wendy A Hernandez 09/26/2018 Today cloud security provider RedLock Inc. announced enhancements to its RedLock Cloud 360 platform “designed specifically to help customers of Microsoft Azure,” according to the press release, which include automated remediation, holistic threat defense, advanced user behavioral analytics and […]
Partnership Weds Software-Defined WAN, CORE Offerings
News Partnership Weds Software-Defined WAN, CORE Offerings By David Ramel 09/25/2018 Established software-defined wide-area-network (SD-WAN) vendor Versa Networks is teaming up with software-defined core network (SD-CORE) startup Mode for a new take on enterprise networking. SD-WAN brings software-defined networking (SDN) benefits such as agility, programmability and the decoupling of hardware from its control software to […]
VMware Announces Availability of Workstation 15 and Fusion 11
News VMware Announces Availability of Workstation 15 and Fusion 11 By Wendy A Hernandez 09/25/2018 Today VMware Inc. announced the availability of the newest versions of its virtual platforms VMware Workstation 15 and VMware Fusion 11. The availability of and improvements to REST APIs for integration with development tools, plus enhanced UIs, expanded OS and […]