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 ...

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 following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. During our exchange, Brad brought up another valid point which is, it's not clear that hardware-driven ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. CIOs of modern-day data centers are concerned about elasticity, agility, end-to-end guarantees in the ...

As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

Mark Fabbi, Vice President and lead author of Gartner’s data center networking Magic Quadrant, recently said “a reactive vendor isn’t a leader”. In a related article published by TechTarget ,“Magic ...

If you are deploying streaming media infrastructure or managing online video creation and distribution workflows, you’re familiar with the challenges of organizing potentially vast arrays of computers ...

SDN, NFV & VNF are among the alphabet soup of terms in the networking industry that have emerged in recent years. Software-defined networking (SDN), network-function virtualization (NFV) and the ...

Telecommunications provider CenturyLink has snapped up more network automation technology, and partners are noticing the carrier’s trend towards software-defined networking. CenturyLink, based in ...

Network virtualization is a method of combining the available resources in a network to consolidate multiple physical networks, divide a network into segments or create software networks between VMs.