Networking


Hitachi Announces Smart Data Center Suite

Hitachi announced a major reorganization last week and a new datacenter management suite.

Intune Data Warehouse for Mobile Reporting Preview Now Available

This week Microsoft has released the first public preview of its Intune Data Warehouse, a new service for reporting on mobile device and mobile application use.

Juniper Points 'Software Defined' Techniques to Security

Juniper Networks Inc. has added new virtual firewalls to its Software-Defined Secure Networks (SDSN), a suite of products that applies to network security the "software-defined" technique of disaggregating software and hardware.

Microsoft Offers Preview of Enterprise State Roaming for Windows 10 Devices

A new service called "Enterprise State Roaming" from Microsoft, now available for preview testing, promises greater organizational control over roamed Windows 10 OS settings and application-state data for enterprises using Azure Active Directory.

Experts Say Government Surveillance Backdoors Actually Make Things Worse

A group of prominent cryptographers said that the planting of backdoors for law enforcement surveillance -- in an effort to crack down on cybercrime -- is actually creating more network vulnerabilities that criminals can exploit.

VMware Expands Into Identity-as-a-Service

Expanding even further beyond its roots in server virtualization, VMware Inc. has launched a single sign-on (SSO) product called Identity Manager.

Microsoft Syncing On-premises and Cloud Active Directory Services

The company has released a second preview of Azure AD Connect.



Cisco Makes Hadoop Partnerships, Releases Management Tool

Cisco announced it was forming resale partnerships with the three primary commercial stewards of Apache Hadoop-based distributions.

ONF Launches Resources To Prod Enterprise Adoption of SDN

Expressing some impatience with the enterprise adoption of open source software-defined networking (SDN) technologies, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) industry consortium announced a new related open source software community and accompanying code repository.

Brocade Ships SDN Controller with Free One-Year License

Brocade Communications Systems Inc. shipped its OpenDaylight-based software-defined networking (SDN) controller that it says can help enterprises avoid vendor lock-in while testing the new technology. To encourage that, the company is offering a free one-year license for the new Vyatta Controller.

Big Switch Offers Starter Kits for Easy Software-Defined Networking

Bundles of hardware, software, support and guidance aim to ease adoption of company's Big Cloud Fabric.

Cisco Partners with Red Hat on Cloud Computing and Software-Defined Networking

Traditional vendor facing upstart challenges is under pressure from analysts and customers to adapt.

Software-Defined Networking Set To Explode

Latest forecast sees 89 percent compound growth leading to $8 billion market by 2018.

Microsoft To Launch StorSimple Azure Storage in August

Microsoft announced this week a new line of its StorSimple appliances that link on-premises datacenters to the Azure cloud.

Analysts Say Cisco Vulnerable To Growth of Software-Defined Networking

With a smaller piece of the market pie for everyone, consequences for Cisco are "particularly dire."

4 Ways To Improve Performance of Your Existing Storage Systems

Here is what you can do to boost both the performance and amount of storage available in your enterprise.

CloudGenix Targets Enterprise WANs with Software-Defined Networking

Startup announces $9 million in funding and plan to apply SDN technology to networks serving distributed locations.

Changing How We Physically Back Up Data

Backing up data should extend further than just taking a "screenshot" of a drive.

Cisco Betting $1 Billion on the Cloud

Networking and hardware giant Cisco Systems Inc. this week announced it was investing $1 billion to expand its cloud business by developing an "intercloud" -- a network of clouds.

NEC Updates Software-Defined Networking Suite

NEC Corp. announced version 5.1 of its ProgrammableFlow Networking Suite, highlighted by a new Unified Network Coordinator (UNC).