Salesforce to acquire MuleSoft for $6.5 billion
Salesforce recently announced it will purchase MuleSoft for $6.5 billion. As part of the acquisition, Salesforce will use MuleSoft technology to power Salesforce Integration Cloud. The deal is expected to close at Salesforce's fiscal year 2019 at the...
What is the Open Systems Interconnection model?
The Open Systems Interconnection reference model was developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to serve as a conceptual framework for understanding how data is transferred between two endpoints in a network. Specifically, it categorizes the communications...
Linux Foundation launches DANOS project
The Linux Foundation recently introduced the Disaggregated Network Operating System (DANOS) project, with a code release slated for the second half of this year.
DANOS is based upon AT&T’s "dNOS" software framework, which the company first unveiled last year. It was...
Security vulnerabilities of connected vehicles
Automakers are in a race to make their vehicles more secure in an era of web-connected devices. While vehicles with internet access enable services like infotainment systems and maintenance monitoring, they also pose security risks on account of being connected...
MetaSwitch and Dell EMC offer joint solution
Telecommunications software company MetaSwitch and Dell EMC announced a collaboration, which involves combining the former company's Composable Network Protocols (CNP) IP routing and MPLS networking stacks with the latter company's EMC OS10 Open Edition. As part of the collaboration,...
Cisco announces updates to network operating systems
Cisco recently announced updates on software disaggregation across service provider, enterprise and data center networking.
The company noted that software disaggregation has been on the rise for a variety reasons. Hyperscale web providers are pushing for disaggregated solutions for...
Intel provides Wind River components and NFV SDK to Akraino Edge Stack
Intel announced it is contributing Wind River Titanium Cloud components along with its Network Edge Virtualization Software Development Kit (NEV SDK) to the Linux Foundation’s Akraino Edge Stack project. By contributing to the open source...
CloudBees CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise now available on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
CloudBees. Inc, the hub of enterprise Jenkins and DevOps, recently announced the availability of CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
CloudBees Jenkins Enterprise offers operations centers and managed masters as a...
Google embracing blockchain technology
Google is reportedly looking into using blockchain technology to boost the search engine giant’s cloud business, according to sources familiar with the matter at Bloomberg.
Blockchain is a technology that helps keep record of online transactions in a distributed, decentralized way using...
ZTE adds container networking solution to TECS OpenPalette platform
Chinese vendor ZTE recently premiered an end-to-end container networking solution in the open-source network functions virtualization (NFV) field , dubbed Knitter, as part of its Tulip Elastic Cloud System (TECS) OpenPalette Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).
According to ZTE, contemporary...
Microsoft gives sneak peak of Windows Server 2019
Microsoft recently previewed Windows Server 2019 with general availability slated for the second half of this year. Based on feedback from its customers, Microsoft is focused on four themes with Windows Server 2019, including hybrid, security, application...
The Linux Foundation and OCP tag team open source hardware/software initiative
The virtualization of network functions has resulted in a disaggregation of hardware and software, increasing interest in open source projects for both layers in return. To feed this interest, the Linux Foundation and Open...
Cisco and Verizon team up on Information-Centric Networking (ICN) software
Cisco and Verizon announced they recently tested the former company’s hybrid ICN software at the latter company’s lab outside Boston.
Cisco's ICN software is based on Xerox research company PARC’s technology. PARC's originally developed the technology...
Siemens extends contract with Orange
Siemens AG has extended its contract with Orange Business Services to help it migrate to a
software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that will connect 1,500 sites in 94 countries.
Orange has previously worked with Siemens as a MPLS networking provider. The six...
A new kind of networking
Many vendors are shifting focus from software-defined networking (SDN) to intent-based networking. Although still an emerging technology, the basic idea behind intent-based networking is to enable a user to determine how a network behaves by choosing and applying policies across...
Google announces Skaffold automation tool for Kubernetes
Google recently introduced a new open source, automation tool called Skaffold, which the company said facilitates continuous development for Kubernetes applications.
Kubernetes is an open source platform that manages containerized workloads and services, where a container serves as a...
Sedona announces Hierarchical Network Controller
Sedona Systems recently rolled out its new Hierarchical Network Controller product, which automatically provisions and optimizes layer 0 to 3 services across multi-layer, vendor and domain networks.
Sedona describes itself as the global leader in multi-layer network automation and control. Its...
IBM announces new system-on-a-chip
IBM introduced what it claims to be the world’s smallest computer for blockchain technology at IBM Think 2018, according to a report by Mashable.
The miniature computer IBM premiered is a complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) reportedly “smaller than a grain of salt.” The chip...
Huawei introduces intent-driven CloudCampus solution
Huawei unveiled its intent-driven CloudCampus solution along with new programmable switches for enterprise campus networks at the Huawei Western Europe Partner Summit 2018 in Amsterdam.
Intent-driven networks (IDN) involve focusing on meeting the needs of the end user leveraging cloud, big...
NetScout introduces nGeniusPulse 2.5
NetScout Systems Inc. recently announced its nGenius Service Assurance platform has extended infrastructure monitoring into VMware virtual and Wi-Fi infrastructures with the release of nGeniusPulse 2.5.
NetScout is a provider of application and network performance management products. nGeniusPulse is a health monitoring...
Verizon and Colt make step toward real-time, cross carrier network automation
Verizon and Colt reportedly demonstrated two-way, inter carrier Software Defined Networking (SDN) orchestration by making near real-time bandwidth changes in each other’s production networks.
SDN is an architecture that has come to prominence as an...
IBM announces managed Kubernetes on bare-metal servers
IBM announced its Cloud Container Service, a fully-managed container services based in Kubernetes, is now able to run on bare metal nodes.
Containers are a lightweight form of virtualization, which enable developers to run an application and its dependencies...
Microsoft to open data centers in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
Microsoft announced plans to open its first data centers in the Middle East, while expanding its data centers in Europe.
The Middle East data centers will be located in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in United Arab Emirates....
Cybersecurity in 2018
The year 2017 was plagued by cybersecurity disasters, from Verizon accidently leaking the names, phone numbers and PIN codes of as many as 14 million customers to Equifax exposing sensitive personal information of nearly half the U.S. population. The year 2018 isn’t...
