An Alcatel-Lucent venture, Nuage Networks, brings out an overlay product for software-defined networking in Layers 2-4 and promises virtual private networks for the enterprise later. Read more »
A survey sponsored by Swedish software-defined networking player Tail-f Systems shows that many people don’t know what SDN is but plenty want to try it to quickly deploy applications and services. Read more »
Midokura, a software-defined networking startup, is looking to gain traction among Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) providers to show the power of its offering. The company has just raised $17.3 million to help its efforts. Read more »
New open-source and commercial software from Big Switch Networks threatens longtime hardware sellers as it lets customers introduce and manage commodity switches. Read more »
Speaking at Structure:Data in New York, Juniper Networks product management lead Jennifer Lin claimed application developers working with big data could find great value in the software-defined network. Read more »
The software-defined networking arena is full of new ideas and well-funded startups. This GigaOM Research podcast discusses SDN use cases, its impact on traditional networking, and companies to watch. Read more »
Standing out with a software-defined networking option for wide-area networks through public clouds, Pertino has signed up 700 customers and received $20 million in Series B funding. Read more »
Software-defined networking vendors such as Embrane and Nicira have found customers in the managed-hosting realm, and with more startups bringing products to market, enterprises could follow suit later this year. Read more »
As network virtualization technologies begin to evolve, specifications are being set by the carrier industry. Telefonica hopes its collaboration with NEC will help it steer the direction of that work. Read more »
Ericsson Cloud System is intended to help mobile operators make their networks and IT infrastructure more efficient, which may in turn help them offer freed-up cloud compute and storage capacity to their customers. Read more »
Intel’s funding of Big Switch Networks indicates that the commoditization of networking hardware is a few steps closer. Read more »
Facebook and others want to see use cases to better understand how software-defined networking can improve the cloud, so Facebook is testing it out in a sandbox environment. Read more »
Lyatiss has come out of stealth mode with $4 million in funding and a product that wants to let developers immediately see problems in the cloud — and then fix them in real time. Read more »
The threat of software-defined networking has prompted Juniper to revamp its business model — switching from a hardware-based model to one more familiar in enterprise software. It has also unveiled an SDN strategy that preserves the importance of specialty hardware at the lowest level of the network. Read more »
Software-defined networking holds a lot of promise for better network security, so it’s no surprise the vArmour Networks, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based startup, has scored $6 million in Series A funding to make that promise a reality. We’re just not sure how yet. Read more »
Next year, “the cloud” will finally be ready for enterprise workloads and big companies will finally start moving them there. Data centers will stop being enclosed by walls and those are just two of GigaOM’s 5 big cloud predictions. Read on for more. Read more »
Many factors have driven the recent high demand for IT products and services. However, relentless global economic weakness and uncertainty have resulted in a deterioration of worldwide IT spending through the third quarter and will continue to be an anchor in the fourth quarter. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Big Switch Networks has come a long way since it launched in June of 2011, and two big announcements today showcasing its ecosystem and its newly launched products are signs that its going on the offensive in the software-defined networking space. Read more »
Brocade, the switch company, is buying Vyatta, a company that pioneered the idea of open-source routing software, in a bid to compete in the networking world as software-defined networking severs the link between networking software and the box that it sits on. Read more »
The SDN startup’s Series B round comes courtesy of new investors Redpoint Ventures and Goldman Sachs. The money will be used to staff up an already tech-heavy engineering staff as the company readies its SDN controllers and applications for the market. Read more »
The usual suspects Amazon and VMware made significant announcements in cloud in the third quarter, while Hadoop remained the talk of the town in big data. Emerging trends in software-defined networking and flash storage stirred up lots of M&A and venture investment in the quarter. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
The software-defined networking (SDN) market is expected to soar in size to $2 billion by 2016, according to IDC. Growth this fast may very well signify that SDN is the third epoch of computer networking, creating vendor discontinuities and a new IT order. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
In cloud and big data, the second quarter of 2012 featured several high-profile deals and product launches that could reshape the marketplace for everyone. Google and Microsoft launched Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings, software-defined networking took off, and all eyes stayed fixed on the continuing promise of data analytics. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
If you ever wanted to take a stroll through the computing industry’s past, it’s not necessary to go all the way to Mountain View, Calif., to visit the Computer History Museum. Just step inside a data center. Read more »
Discussions about the cloud now involve more than just the IT department. New developments in hardware architectures, more-energy-efficient data centers, regulatory concerns and simplifying analytics are all discussions currently circling through the industry. Here’s what to consider when thinking about your business in the cloud. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
VMware CTO Steve Herrod has a message for the IT world: “[S]pecialized software will replace specialized hardware throughout the data center.” Via virtualizations and SDNs, software-defined data centers will bring the dynamic natures of Google, Facebook and Zynga data centers into the mainstream. Read more »
IBM has teamed up with NEC to deliver an OpenFlow-based controller-and-switch combo that tries to find the sweet spot in software-defined networking between expensive, proprietary gear from Cisco or Juniper and the brand-new, open-sourced stuff that startups and webscale companies are peddling. Read more »
Vyatta, which provides open-source networking software, has raised $12 million in expansion round financing as the entire networking field finds itself on the cusp of big changes. The round, its fifth, was led by HighBAR Partners and brings Vyatta’s total funding to $45 million. Read more »
The networking industry is set for a change as the shifts caused by the needs of webscale operators and virtualization bring complexity and costs to moving data around a data center. As networks look more like a cloud, does the field need a DevOps culture? Read more »
Networking startups are hot as VCs get hip to the promise that software-defined networking has for the industry, but Internet Systems Consortium, a non-profit entity supporting open-source software may have a hot startup in the form of one of its open-source projects. Read more »
