Hewlett-Packard plans to use its recently announced SDN controller to distribute its TippingPoint intrusion prevention system across networks, overcoming the scale limitations of dedicated appliances. The research project, called ...
Tags: HP, Network Security, SDN
2012 has been a year of re-invention among the tech industry's biggest players, with Microsoft overhauling many of its key product lines, most notably Windows, while also boldly entering the hardware market with Surface tablets. HP slashed ...
IDG News Service-Continuing its push to virtualize all aspects of the data center,VMware is acquiring software-defined networking firm Nicira for$1.26 billion,the companies announced Monday. "I believe we have the same opportunity to do ...
Tags: VMware, openflow Pioneer Nicira
Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability and virtualization. The company is augmenting its Application Fluent Network strategy with a ...
Tags: SDN market, network programmability, Cisco, VMware
VMware today announced its intention to buy Nicira for $1.05bn. VMware already dominates the server virtualisation market, but with this latest buy is looking towards a stronger play in networking, thanks to Nicira’s focus on ...
Tags: VMware, Nicira, acquisition, networking
HP has announced a range of new products with built-in software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities, placing a huge bet on the emerging technology. The company claimed that while other vendors have embraced SDN – which offers ...
Tags: HP, Portfolio, Computer Products, Networking
VMware and EMC today confirmed rumors that have been circulating for weeks that it would spin out its big data and platform as a service (PaaS) cloud products into a new division within the company named Pivotal Initiative, which will be ...
Tags: VMware, EMC, big data, PaaS, cloud division
This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach. Software-defined networking (SDN) is emerging as an alternative to ...
Tags: SDN, software defined networking, network control, data center networks
Software-defined networking won't turn enterprise switches into an inexpensive commodity until three to five years from now, according to Arpit Joshipura, the former Force10 Networks executive who now manages Dell's networking products. ...
Tags: SDN, enterprise switches, inexpensive commodity, Dell
Nicira is a start-up right out of the Silicon Valley playbook with a $1.26 billion ending, in just five years. VMware's decision, announced Monday, to buy this network virtualization company will likely be cited as a starring example of ...
Tags: Nicira, Silicon Valley, playbook, VMware
Alcatel-Lucent’s enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability and virtualisation. The company is augmenting its Application Fluent Network strategy ...
Tags: Alcatel Lucent, data centre, LANE network, software
Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the final speaker line-up and agenda for its annual Xen Summit North America conference. The event will be held, August 27-28 in San Diego, California and is co-located with ...
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HP this week will unveil a software-defined networking portfolio that spans infrastructure, control plane operations and applications in an effort to lead the emerging SDN market. HP will roll out its own SDN controller, a separate ...
Tags: Cisco, highlightedpost, HP, Juniper, SDN
Nicira, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup that VMware purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year, plans to release an SDN product that runs independent of the underlying hypervisor and hardware that will work in VMware ...
Tags: casado, CTO, data centre, hardware, hypervisor, nicira, OpenFlow
Internet2 is nearing completion of its OpenFlow-enabled 100G Ethernet software-defined network for testing service delivery of applications for Big Data compilation and research,among others. At this week's Summer 2012 ESCC/Internet2 ...
Tags: OpenFlow SDN, Internet2, Big Data, software-defined networking