James Urquhart is a field technologist with almost 20 years of experience in distributed-systems development and deployment, focusing on service-oriented architectures, cloud computing, and ...

As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

Red Hat OpenStack gets cozy with HPE NFV Systems at Mobile World Congress, offering open-source choice for modernizing telecommunications stacks. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 ...

Integration of Project Calico with Mirantis Fuel enables enterprises to easily deploy OpenStack 6.1 with pure Layer 3 virtual networks Metaswitch Networks, the world’s leading network software ...

VIO will be available in both Carrier and Data Center Editions. VMware is using OpenStack to present users with an open, vendor-neutral application programming interface (API) access to VMware's ...

OpenStack has gained considerable popularity over the years for its open-source cloud platform, but this week it looks like one major user is seriously considering dropping the technology in favor of ...

VMware wants to bring enterprise-class reliability to OpenStack by releasing a distribution of cloud hosting software that runs on top of the virtualization stack. “There’s a lot of interest as ...

LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — AT&T on Wednesday revealed two new aspects of its virtualization strategy, both related to virtual network function (VNF) requirements. The first is a process the service provider ...

OpenStack, the open source software for building public and private clouds that’s being backed by a wide variety of industry heavyweights, today launched Juno, its latest point release. As usual, this ...