News Dell EMC: Open Networking’s Next Evolution Is SD-WAN By David Ramel 02/11/2019 Dell EMC is the latest networking vendor to point to SD-WAN as the future for the evolution of the open networking movement, which emphasizes disaggregated, modular, software-centric systems over closed, proprietary, hardware-based legacy implementations. While that transformative networking revolution — featuring acronym-laden […]
Platform9 Intros Managed Service Because ‘Kubernetes on VMware Is Painful’
News Platform9 Intros Managed Service Because ‘Kubernetes on VMware Is Painful’ By David Ramel 02/08/2019 Platform9 introduced a new managed Kubernetes service to run on VMware systems in order to reduce the complexity of wedding the hot container technology with the leading virtualization software. That challenge — found in do-it-yourself approaches or even in existing […]
Kubernetes IDE Offered by Red Hat
News Kubernetes IDE Offered by Red Hat By David Ramel 02/08/2019 Kubernetes, getting more popular by the minute for its container orchestration expertise, now has its own integrated development environment (IDE) thanks to open source champion Red Hat. Kubernetes is “an open source container orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling, and management,” says Red […]
Remote Support Solution Provider AetherPal To Be Acquired by VMware
News Remote Support Solution Provider AetherPal To Be Acquired by VMware By Wendy A Hernandez 02/07/2019 This week VMware Inc. announced its intent to acquire AetherPal, a venture-backed remote support and mobile support enterprise solution provider based in Piscataway, New Jersey. VMware has been reselling AetherPal Remote Support under the name Workspace ONE Advanced Remote […]
VMware Changes Its Recertification Requirements for VCPs
News VMware Changes Its Recertification Requirements for VCPs By Wendy A Hernandez 02/05/2019 In a move to appease its certification community, this week VMware Inc. announced it will no longer require mandatory recertification every two years for VMware Certified Professionals, effective immediately. As Karl Childs explained in his blog post , “We want you to […]
SD-WAN Players Maneuver with Partnerships
News SD-WAN Players Maneuver with Partnerships By David Ramel 02/04/2019 As the fast-growing software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) space shakes itself out, industry players are maneuvering to cash in on market opportunities with a series of partnerships. Two such pacts announced on the same day last week serve as the latest examples of this trend, as […]
Survey Shows Carriers Moving to SDN in a Big Way
News Survey Shows Carriers Moving to SDN in a Big Way By David Ramel 02/01/2019 A new survey from IHS Markit illustrates the maturation of the game-changing software-defined networking (SDN) approach, which reportedly will be adopted by all respondents and is already used by 78 percent of global service providers. SDN is at the forefront […]
Cloud-Native Monitoring Among a Bevy of New Features in OpsRamp Winter Release
News Cloud-Native Monitoring Among a Bevy of New Features in OpsRamp Winter Release By Wendy A Hernandez 01/31/2019 Today OpsRamp Inc. announced the Winter Release of its artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform of the same name. The update offers new Kubernetes monitoring for cloud-native workloads, plus additional topology maps and enhanced […]
Cisco Extends Reach of ACI for Intent-Based Networking
News Cisco Extends Reach of ACI for Intent-Based Networking By David Ramel 01/30/2019 A new “ACI Anywhere” initiative from Cisco seeks to extend the reach of its ACI solution, born in the early stages of the software-defined networking (SDN) transformation and subsequently pivoted to provide “intent-based networking.” The ACI Anywhere program brings the company’s intent-based […]
AppDynamics for ACI Monitoring Solution Targets Cisco’s SDN Offering
News AppDynamics for ACI Monitoring Solution Targets Cisco’s SDN Offering By David Ramel 01/28/2019 Cisco company AppDynamics unveiled a new monitoring solution for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), the networking giant’s initiative in the game-changing software-defined networking (SDN) space. AppDynamics, acquired by Cisco in 2017, is an “applications intelligence” company said to provide real-time insights […]