Clouds and Carriers

Big Switch Networks named Prashant Gandhi as vice president of product management, where he will oversee the company’s complete Open SDN Suite, which includes Big Network Controller, Big Virtual Switch,...

Brocade outlined an "On-Demand Data Center" Strategy for evolving networks toward a highly virtualized, open and flexible infrastructure. Brocade's strategy will leverage its VCS Fabric technology as its foundation.  The...

BT announced the international launch of its Cloud Compute service, offering "pay as you go" cloud pricing and consistent levels of quality, security and service from BT. BT Cloud Compute...

EarthLink announced the opening of a new data center in Dallas. EarthLink said it is also preparing to open three additional data centers in Chicago, San Jose and Miami in...

Amazon Web Services is currently storing two trillion objects in its S3 cloud storage service, double the number of just one year ago (it took the first six years of...

Intel introduced three platforms for software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). The product launch includes: The Intel Open Network Platform Switch Reference Design, previously codenamed "Seacliff Trail,"...

Nuage Networks and Red Hat are collaborating to certify an OpenStack Quantum plug-in for Red Hat’s planned enterprise cloud management solution, Red Hat OpenStack. Quantum is an OpenStack project to...

Click here to see video:  http://youtu.be/cbnm1iraM_c Industry leaders share their views on where Software Defined Networking stands in the market today.  Is it still just hype or have real use...

Rackspace announced plans to build and run a linked global cloud network for large service providers. The Rackspace public cloud aims to be the largest OpenStack-based public cloud in the...

Netronome and Metaswitch disclosed the details of a unique architecture for OpenFlow gateways based on Netronome network flow processing technology and Metaswitch’s SDN-enabled control plane software. The companies are hosting...

Pluribus Networks, a start-up based in Palo Alto, California, is working with Red Hat to build orchestration and management capabilities in its Pluribus Netvisor Fabric-based network infrastructure using Red Hat...

A newly formed Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) ISG under ETSI will hold its second meeting on April 22-23 at Huawei's facility in Santa Clara, California. The NFV initiative came about...

A new OpenDaylight Projectbacked by leading network technology providers aims to ensure an open source framework for Software-Defined Networking (SDN). Founding members include Big Switch Networks, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, IBM,...