News Cisco Warns of Vulnerability in SD-WAN Offering By David Ramel 01/24/2019 Cisco has released software updates to fix a vulnerability in its software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) solution, a fast-growing segment of the software-centric networking transformation. “A vulnerability in the vContainer of the Cisco SD-WAN Solution could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a […]
Microsoft Azure DevOps Server 2019 Reaches RC2 Status
News Microsoft Azure DevOps Server 2019 Reaches RC2 Status By Kurt Mackie 01/23/2019 This week, Microsoft announced that its Azure DevOps Server 2019 entered into the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) stage, according to Program Manager Erin Dormier’s post on the Microsoft DevOps Blog. Dormier said that Azure DevOps Server 2019 RC2 is Microsoft’s “last planned […]
OpenFlow-Based Faucet Provides High-Speed SDN Controller
News OpenFlow-Based Faucet Provides High-Speed SDN Controller By David Ramel 01/22/2019 The open source Faucet project — a high-speed controller for software-defined networking (SDN) implementations — is getting some attention this week at the 2019 linux.conf.au event in New Zealand. The project has been in the works for years, and backer Brad Cowie will helm […]
Survey Says Despite Security Concerns, Enterprise Cloud Adoption Still To Grow in 2019
News Survey Says Despite Security Concerns, Enterprise Cloud Adoption Still To Grow in 2019 By Wendy A Hernandez 01/17/2019 Microsoft technology partner NetEnrich Inc., which specializes in the deployment, migration and management of application workloads on Microsoft Azure, announced the results of its 2019 Cloud Adoption survey, which show that cloud adoption is not only […]
Cisco Sees SD-WAN, Other Tech Leading 2019 Networking Transformation
News Cisco Sees SD-WAN, Other Tech Leading 2019 Networking Transformation By David Ramel 01/14/2019 Networking giant Cisco Systems sees software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) among the technologies that will change the networking space in 2019. While the old-guard, proprietary, hardware-centric exemplar may have been slow to jump on the software-centric bandwagon several years ago, it subsequently […]
Research Firm Ranks 9 Cloud Management Platforms
News Research Firm Ranks 9 Cloud Management Platforms By David Ramel 01/10/2019 Research firm Gartner Inc. published a new report on cloud management platforms, listing Flexera (RightScale), Scalr, Embotics and Morpheus Data in the “leaders” category. “CMPs enable organizations to manage multicloud (i.e., private and public cloud) services and resources,” the report says. “This includes […]
AT&T’s Conversion to Virtualization, Software Control On Track
News AT&T’s Conversion to Virtualization, Software Control On Track By David Ramel 01/09/2019 AT&T jumped on the software-centric networking bandwagon in a big way by aiming to virtualize and “software control” 75 percent of its core network operations by 2020, and today it announced that plan is on track. “In 2018, we reached the 65 […]
Video Collection Teaches Cloud, Virtualized Networks, DevOps
News Video Collection Teaches Cloud, Virtualized Networks, DevOps By David Ramel 01/07/2019 Video learners wanting to get a leg up on transformative changes in the cloud/networking industry in the new year may care to avail themselves of a new university-curated collection of instructional videos. The videos were announced today by the School of Information Studies […]
SolarWinds Network Management Refresh Adds SDN Monitoring
News SolarWinds Network Management Refresh Adds SDN Monitoring By David Ramel 01/03/2019 SolarWinds announced a refresh of its network management offerings that adds monitoring of software-defined networking (SDN) systems, adding support for Cisco’s ACI initiative and new anomaly detection capabilities. The Austin, Texas-based IT management software specialist said its SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor helps customers […]
Kaloom Software Defined Fabric Integrates Kubernetes, OpenShift
News Kaloom Software Defined Fabric Integrates Kubernetes, OpenShift By David Ramel 12/14/2018 Networking start-up Kaloom announced the integration of OpenShift and Kubernetes into its Software Defined Fabric, an industrialized networking software solution running on white-box hardware. The company in October unveiled its Software Defined Fabric (SDF), featuring integrated routing and switching and designed for hyperscale, […]