At a recent convention, a break-out panel discussed the merits of Network Virtualization (NV) versus Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Until then, I thought they were the same. As someone who writes ...

The Software Defined Networking movement is still evolving, but profiles of SDN users are becoming more clear and we’re getting a bead on some of the common evaluation criteria companies are using to ...

The industry has high hopes for network automation. Industry research, as well as our own work, indicates that IT and networking professionals believe that many network management tasks can be ...

Telstra Corp. Ltd. is transforming its global telecommunications network via software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) in order to provide a next-generation, ...

As software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV) and other new-age networking initiatives mature, we'll be taking a look at what's in store for some of the most promising ...

Post-Interview Comments: We reached out to Jayshree for her take on VMware's acquisition of Nicira and she had the following comment: "It's exciting to see the return of innovative networking ...

As I write this I am sitting on a flight to Hong Kong. It is a long haul, and I feel like data being shuttled through a network. I often have conversations with business people who hear the marketing ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) is a way to virtualize networks for ease of configuration and maintenance in the same way that servers and storage are being virtualized. The difference is that SDN ...

With the advent of SDN, there’s been a lot of speculation about the future of the network administrator. Some doomsayers predict the network admin will be obsolete as network virtualization becomes ...