Hard on the heels of a similar pitch from AT&T, Verizon this morning is taking the wraps off a lineup of Virtual Network Services (VNS) that it bills as a natural extension of data-center ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. Virtualization technologies have helped shape the way many organizations do business. Virtual desktops ...

Defining a set of security and compliance policies is a key first step. But enforcing security policy is not as easy. Defining a set of security and compliance policies is a key step. Having a ...

Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) represents a paradigm shift in the design and deployment of network services, decoupling software implementations of network functions from specialised hardware.

The network team is being bombarded with configuration requests that can take days or weeks to handle, but luckily several approaches are emerging that promise to increase network agility, chief among ...

The contrast between virtualization in the data center, discussed in my previous No Jitter post, and virtualization in the WAN is interesting. We've had WAN virtualization, in the form of VLANs and ...

Cassava Technologies and AXON Networks have signed a partnership on network virtualization in Africa. The alliance targets cost reduction and faster upgrades from 4G to 5G for operators. The project ...

Network virtualization start-up Nicira is coming out of stealth mode today and it has an impressive set of customers who evidently believe that it can disrupt the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper ...

While system virtualization — and to a lesser extent, desktop virtualization — has held most of the virtualization limelight, there is also a growing trend in network virtualization. Most of you in ...

Network slicing is an idea that's been making the rounds in service provider circles over the past couple of years—and for good reason. This technology—one of the essential service capabilities of 5G ...

Virtualization, including network virtualization, is the missing piece of the puzzle for securing an enterprise, the VMware CEO said at VMworld VMware is making a case that network virtualization can ...