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Dell Unveils Open Platform for NFV

Dell is rolling out its network-functions virtualization platform with the goal of giving telecommunications companies an open solution they can use to accelerate their...

Lenovo, VMware Partner on IT Infrastructure Solutions

Lenovo, in its first announcement after buying IBM's x86 server business for $2.1 billion, is teaming up with VMware to build new software-defined data...

Cumulus Aims Linux Networking OS at Enterprise

Cumulus Networks co-founder and CEO JR Rivers says that the massive Web-scale businesses that have grown up with a cloud mindset see what his...

NEC Offers SDN Pay-as-You-Grow Pricing Model

NEC is pushing to make it easier for businesses to embrace software-defined networking.Company officials on Oct. 13 announced that, as part of the launch...

Pica8, Big Switch Look to Drive SDN on Bare-Metal Switches

Pica8 kicked off a busy week in the increasingly competitive software-defined networking space, making moves that officials say will help fuel the adoption of...

Investor Pushes EMC to Spin Off VMware

A key EMC investor is ramping up the pressure on the data storage vendor to shed its 80 percent stake in VMware in the...

IBM Sees Software-Defined Storage as Taming Data Deluge

LAS VEGAS--Hewlett-Packard's Oct. 5 announcement that it intends to split into two independent companies--one for hardware, one for software and services--in order to survive...

VMware Bolsters SDN Efforts With Execs From Cisco, Big Switch

VMware, the server virtualization pioneer that made a major push into the burgeoning software-defined network market two years ago when it bought startup Nicira...

AMD Demos ARM-Based NFV Solution

Advanced Micro Devices is looking to extend its ambitions around ARM-based processors beyond servers and into the networking world.At ARM's TechCon 2014 this week...

SDN Startup Pica8 Garners $12.5 Million in Funding Round

Pica8, which has developed a networking operating system that officials say is designed to make it easier for organizations to embrace software-defined networking, raised...