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...
Equinix announces new key management and encryption service
Data center company Equinix announced the general availability of a new global key management and encryption Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) called SmartKey.
The purpose of SmartKey is to better protect data across multi-cloud environments using encryption key management. In particular,...
Aryaka unveils multi-layered security platform Passport
SD-WAN provider Aryaka rolled out a new platform, called Passport, providing its customers with as many as six layers of security. The added layers of security come from Aryaka’s security partners, including Palo Alto Networks, Radware and Zscaler.
The security...
Cloudflare makes Cloudflare Workers generally available
Web security company Cloudflare announced the general availability of Cloudflare Workers, which enable developers to launch their code directly at the edge of the company’s global network.
Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Workers beta in September. The company said since then, customers...
Nutanix announces intent to purchase Netsil
Cloud computing software company Nutanix Inc. announced it intends to purchase Netsil Inc. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
Netsil is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2012. It offers an observability and monitoring platform for cloud apps...
ONF announces new open source Stratum project
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced a new project, dubbed Stratum, with the aim of implementing a reference platform for a software-defined data plane based on white-box switches. To jump-start the project, Google is open sourcing the first...
RFIs for 5G core are coming out now; RFPs to follow in 2019, Oracle VP says
5G, for operators, is all about efficiency and flexibility--lowering the cost per bit per hertz of data transported by optimizing network and spectrum resources, and using automation to do...
Global container market to hit $706.2 million by 2022
The global container monitoring market is expected to swell from $169.6 million in 2017 to $706.2 million by 2022, at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33%, according to a report published by ResearchandMarkets.
Containers are...
AT&T moving from testing to deploying OpenROADMs
Having achieved optical interoperability between equipment made by different vendors, AT&T is moving forward with plans to scale Open Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) deployments using multiple vendors and an optical SDN controller integrated into ECOMP.
ROADMs are switches...
Blockchain, 5G and private LTE are key to Telefónica industrial digitalization strategy
Telcos like Telefónica are in the interesting position of going through internal digital transformation while simultaneously turning those key learnings into new products offered on top of operators' networks. Whether internal- or external-facing...
Nokia announces Enterprise Session Border Controller
Nokia introduced a new cloud-native Enterprise Session Border Controller (eSBC), which the company said provides high-quality IP voice and video services.
Nokia's eSBC is intended to mitigate cyber attacks, optimize the use of IP bandwidth for communications and thwart unauthorized...
Netsparker seals $40 million in funding
Software security company Netsparker recently raised $40 million in financing in a round led by enterprise software venture capital firm Turn/River Capital.
Netsparker was founded in 2009, providing web application security scanning software for pinpointing security flaws in websites, applications...
Kubernetes-as-a-Service comes to Mesosphere DC/OS 1.11
Cloud database company Mesosphere announced version 1.11 of its data center operating system (DC/OS) container platform, with updates centered around Kubernetes, edge and multi-cloud operations.
Mesosphere’s DC/OS serves as a distributed system, which provides common services to software container applications....
Tenable unveils benchmarking solution
Software company Tenable announced a new feature, called Tenable.io Lumin, which the company said will enable organizations to quantify and communicate their cyber risk.
In cyber security, the concept of an “attack surface” refers to the total number of points or vectors...
Cisco unveils SD-WAN vAnalytics and Meraki Insight
Cisco advanced its intent-based networking initiative with two new products, SD-WAN vAnalytics and Meraki Insight, which reportedly bring insight and visibility into the wide-area network (WAN).
Intent-based networking involves determining how a network behaves by choosing and applying policies...
Netsurion launches SD-WAN platform Netsurion Connect
Network security services company Netsurion is rolling into the SD-WAN market with the launch of Netsurion Connect, which the company said combines network connectivity, security and management for distributed enterprises and IoT environments.
Netsurion was founded in 1989. The company...
VMware announces new hybrid cloud capabilities
VMware announced it is extending its portfolio of cloud services to help deal with complexities and risks anchored to multi-cloud environments.
Hybrid cloud environments consist of using one or more public cloud providers with a private cloud platform. Despite the...
Microsoft to combine Azure Stack with Azure Government
Microsoft announced it will integrate its Azure Stack with Azure Government sometime in the middle of the year as part of an initiative to attract government agencies.
The offering is aimed at government agencies that require on-premise servers....
Pentagon criticized for awarding $950 million contract to Amazon partner
The Pentagon is reducing a cloud deal with Virginia-based company Rean Cloud potentially worth $950 million to $65 million amid criticism of awarding the contract to the Amazon partner.
Rean Cloud was awarded the contract last...
