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Shift to Hybrid Cloud Quickens, Survey Finds
A new industry survey throws some cold water on bullish forecasts that have public cloud adoption doubling by the end of 2016. Rather, the Open Data Center Alliance said ...Full Article
Net Performance A Growing Concern In Cloud Deployments
As enterprise cloud deployments continue to rise, so too do concerns about network performance, concludes an enterprise cloud study by the largest of network providers, Verizon. In its annual ...Full Article
Calls For EMC-VMware Breakup Get Louder
IBM has sold off its System x division to Lenovo, eBay is spinning off PayPal, and Hewlett-Packard is breaking itself into two. Suddenly the idea of conglomerates that have ...Full Article
NTT Shifts Gears To SDN Services
Japan's NTT Communications is going all-in for software-defined networking technology as a means of managing web and cloud-based VPNs, servers, and network segments in virtual servers. Tokyo-based NTT, Japan's ...Full Article
Cisco Cuts More Jobs As Switching And Routing Stall
Networking giant Cisco Systems is struggling in its core switching and routing markets and feeling the effects of economic and political turmoil in emerging markets, all of which put ...Full Article
Big Switch Brings Hyperscale SDN To Enterprises
Big Switch Networks, a networking startup that was spun out of the Stanford University labs that created the OpenFlow protocol that underpins a lot of software-defined networking stacks, is ...Full Article
Extreme Networks Takes The Open Road To SDN
Having announced that it was joining the OpenDaylight Project a month ago, Extreme Networks has come out with a software-defined networking strategy that will heavily leverage that open source ...Full Article
Dell Advances Open Networks With Big Switch Deal
Dell is joining forces with software-defined networking specialist Big Switch Networks to advance its open networking initiative that aims to shake up the traditional networking switch model. Dell has ...Full Article
Cisco Counters OpenFlow SDN With OpFlex, Updates Nexus Switches
Cisco Systems has taken a different approach to software-defined networking, by baking some of its features into its Nexus switching hardware to combat OpenFlow and more generic switches with ...Full Article
Google Lifts Veil On “Andromeda” Virtual Networking
The biggest public cloud providers have adjacent businesses that actually fund the development of the infrastructure that starts out in their own operations and eventually makes its way into ...Full Article
