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Getting your organization ready for SDN: Part 1
Today, functioning networks hide many faults. Software-defined networking (SDN) offers network operators a solution for poor traffic visibility and clumsy operational systems. A network actively,...
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ARM servers get a webscale win with Xen hypervisor support
Lower-power servers are a trend, and so is server virtualization. Hence the arrival of ARM support on the Xen hypervisor, which could be a boon for webscale players. ARM servers get a webscale win...
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What’s next in the world of software-defined networking
Software-defined networking (SDN) represents the next big wave of networking investment: $2.45 billion by 2018, according to GigaOM Research. ANd with standards still evolving, products still...
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How to cost-efficiently increase efficiency in the data center
Today’s data center managers must not only satisfy customer demands for around-the-clock availability from anywhere in the world; they must also contend with demands from within their own organizations...
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Key factors IT managers face when deploying SDN solutions
Many still have difficulty understanding how SDN technologies improve networking in the data center. The key is to develop clear business use cases and detailed training — crucial elements for future...
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Are internet companies easy targets for the green movement?
Internet giants' brands are much more vulnerable to attack from the environmental movement than other industries. That explains in part why many of them pursue green technologies. Are internet...
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IT spending’s growth prospects for the rest of 2013
The second-quarter vendor financial reports disappointed once again but not by as much as in the first quarter of 2013. Optimists are still looking for a relatively robust second half of 2013. IT...
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Faster feature rollouts and fewer house calls: Why Telefonica is virtualizing...
The Spanish carrier group and the Japanese equipment maker NEC have begun a pilot program in Brazil, where many of the complex routing functions are being virtualized out of the set-top box and into...
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The sorry state of server utilization and the impending post-hypervisor era
Server virtualization was supposed to make utilization rates go up. But utilization is still low and solutions to solve that will change the way the data center operates. The sorry state of server...
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Rivals chip, chip, chip away at VMware hypervisor dominance
Some folks say hypervisors -- now a commodity -- don't matter any more. That's not true, and growing support for Hyper-V by third-party vendors spells trouble for VMware. Here's why Rivals chip, chip,...
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Mesosphere thinks everyone’s servers should run like Twitter’s do, and it’s...
Apache Mesos is the open source cluster-management software that automates operations at companies such as Twitter and Airbnb. Now, a startup called Mesosphere is building a business around taking it...
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The next big step for cellular networks isn’t 5G. It’s the cloud
At Mobile World Congress the mobile network will begin its long journey into cloud. It will take some time, but one day the key component of the mobile network could be the data center. The next big...
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An Intel-powered cellular network? It’s slowly starting to happen
Intel is seeking to make its processors a key component of mobile networks, and its influence is starting to be felt. At Mobile World Congress, Intel revealed its working with numerous carriers and...
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Software is eating the mobile network, too, as AT&T begins its journey into...
AT&T is taking the first steps toward transforming its network into a data center. It's not touching the cellular network -- at least not yet -- but it will start virtualizing its mobile core and...
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What communications service providers need to improve and transform their...
Network functions virtualization includes many technologies that will enable communications service providers to create more agile networks and reduce operating costs. What communications service...
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The operator’s view of SDN, NFV, and open source
Where are SDN and NFV today? And what influence will open systems and open source have on the future of SDN and NFV? The operator’s view of SDN, NFV, and open source originally published by Gigaom, ©...
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How OpenStack can become an enterprise reality.
Enterprise IT managers are watching the open-source cloud infrastructure project OpenStack with interest, hoping it might offer an easy way to begin exploiting the cloud alongside their existing IT...
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What first-quarter 2014 meant for the mobile space
Some major acquisitions jolted the mobile industry in the first quarter of 2014, underscoring some important trends. Meanwhile, turbulence plagues the mobile-gaming industry and Dish is ramping up...
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How to build a business-driven infrastructure for the software-defined...
Solutions in the application performance management market is deriving meaningful intelligence directly from the apps they monitor, intelligence that businesses can turn into actionable results that...
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Google wants to show the world how sexy cluster management really is
A partnership between Google and Mesosphere further's Google's strategy to sell the world on its way of automating applications and resources. Cluster management is important -- even sexy when wrapped...
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