SoftBank transitions to DevOps work environment with Red Hat methodologies
SoftBank Corp., a Japanese multinational telecommunications and internet company, announced it is embracing a DevOps culture by adopting a slew of Red Hat open source technologies and services, including Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and...
Red Hat CRI-O focuses on making container runtime easier
Red Hat announced it has deployed its Container Runtime Interface 1.0 (CRI-O), which allows users to run containers directly from Kubernetes without making changes to code or tooling. While the first version of CRI-O v1.0 is...
Storage capacity for Red Hat’s container-native platform gets a boost
Red Hat recently unveiled its Red Hat Container-Native Storage 3.6, bringing what is dubbs “versatile software-defined storage” to the platform. The release follows in the footsteps of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6, the newest...
Operator prioritizing NFV MANO
Proximus, Belgium’s largest telecommunications company, has selected Cloudify’s cloud-native orchestration platform in its push toward network functions virtualization (NFV). Proximus will leverage Cloudify’’s platform to provide management and orchestration (MANO), and assist with onboarding and deploying virtualized network functions (VNF).
NFV has...
Austin, Texas -- Containers and microservices are the future of software-defined storage platforms, according to Stephen Watt, chief architect for emerging technologies within Red Hat’s Office of Technology. As container technology impacts how users think about storage for applications and microservices, software-defined storage will...
Chris Wright, vice president and chief technologist at Red Hat, delivered a keynote presentation titled “Container, Culture and Community” at this year’s Linux Foundation Open Source Summit North America.
Wright began noting what originally got him into open source. “I don’t know if I was...
Are containers taking over?
Virtual machines have taken the spotlight on the telecom stage within the last few years, but the technology is by no means a one-man show. Containers, which predate virtual machines, have taken on an increasingly important role lately largely thanks to...
Overview
Docker is one of the hottest products on the devops scene today. The open source platform deploys and updates applications inside containers on a single Linux operating system (OS). Those unfamiliar with the platform may find concepts anchored to the technology bewildering. To demystify...
Red Hat patches vulnerability in OpenStack subsystem that manages virtual machines
Red Hat recently patched a security glitch in an OpenStack subsystem used to provision network services to virtual machines (VMs), which could have given hackers access to network resources if gone unnoticed.
Red Hat dubbed...
One open source model referenced by many in the telecommunications space is that of OpenStack, which is a cloud-based platform initially begun in 2010 as a project between NASA and Rackspace Hosting aimed at creating an open source cloud platform that could be operated...
Lenovo Networking discusses the importance of open source platforms for continued NFV and SDN deployments
Open source platforms have been central to the rapid development and deployment of virtualized networking technologies like network functions virtualization and software-defined networking by telecommunications operators.
Much of these...
Red Hat’s Mobile Application Platform to power Telefónica’s global enterprise mobile platform
Telefónica Business Solutions is set to use Red Hat’s Mobile Application Platform as a global reference for operators within the Telefónica Group looking to mobilize business processes for customers.
Red Hat said Telefónica has...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we look at some of the top news from across the space over the past week and speak with Red Hat on evolving storage needs for cloud infrastructure
Verizon this week claimed it recently completed the industry’s largest known...
Verizon said it recently completed NFV OpenStack cloud deployments across five U.S. data centers, with international and edge network push by year-end
Verizon Communications claims it recently completed the industry’s largest known network functions virtualization OpenStack cloud deployment across five of its U.S. data centers.
The...
Red Hat remains focused on expanding, enhancing the NFV and OpenStack environment
Open source continues to be a strong undercurrent in the move by telecom operators towards virtualized platforms using network functions virtualization, software-defined networking and cloud. One of the larger players in the...
NFV integration project conducted at Huawei Open Labs facility
Infrastructure giant Huawei said it recently completed the first phase of an integration project with Red Hat that ties in multiple vendors’ mobile broadband architectures using network functions virtualization technology.
The companies said the initial NFV “agile integration” work...
On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check we talked with George Drapeau, director of partner solutions and strategy at Red Hat on how OpenStack and open source are being used to boost NFV and SDN performance as well as an update from this week’s Red...
European operator taps NFV to deploy virtualized LTE stack
Telekom Austria Group reported that its Serbian subsidiary Vip demonstrated what it claims is the first fully virtualized LTE stack in a live network supporting data, voice and IP multimedia subsystem services. The service tapped into...
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Editor's Note: The ecosystem of big data and analytics, and its intersection with mobile networks and cloud computing has increasing relevance to wireless in areas that include service assurance, customer experience management, mobile marketing, location-based services and more. Here is a look at the week's big...
