Robert Soderbery Departs from Cisco

Source of the news: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/soderbery-departs-cisco/2016/09/ Author: Linda Hardesty Ever since David Goeckeler’s rise to power at Cisco this summer, we’ve been waiting to see what Rob Soderbery’s…

Gartner Report on Software-Defined Storage

Source of the news: http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/market-reportsresearch/gartner-report-on-software-defined-storage/ Top Five Use Cases and Benefits of Software-Defined Storage Software-defined storage (SDS) offers potential benefits to I&O leaders looking to increase storage…

Micro Focus to buy HPE arm for US$8.8b

Source of the news: https://www.microfocus.com/about/press-room/article/2016/micro-focus-announces-intent-to-merge-with-hewlett-packard-enterprise-software-business-segment?sf48645487=1 Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO.L) announced today its intent to merge with HPE’s Software Business Segment in a transaction valued at approximately $8.8…

Red Hat Releases OpenStack Platform 9

Source of the news: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-delivers-functionality-updates-across-multiple-openstack-services-general-availability-red-hat-openstack-platform-9 Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat OpenStack…

VMware Pushes Hybrid Cloud and SDDC with Release of New Cross-Cloud Architecture

Source of the news: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-newsfeed.VMware-Unveils-New-Cross-Cloud-Architecture(TM)-to-Give-Customers-Cloud-Freedom-and-Control.2089557.html Today at VMworld® 2016, VMware, Inc. announced the extension of the company’s hybrid cloud strategy with the new VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture™, enabling…

Huawei Launches Labs to Drive Open Cloud Networks

Source of the news: http://www.eweek.com/cloud/huawei-launches-labs-to-drive-open-cloud-networks.html The Cloud Open Labs are part of the vendor’s All Cloud strategy to make it easier for telco operators to migrate their…

Red Hat Thrown in Support for Openstack Neutron with Latest Release of its Virtualization Platform

Source of the news: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-powers-new-generation-high-performance-virtualization-based-open-standards-red-hat-virtualization-4 Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the general availability of Red Hat Virtualization…

Global SDS Market to Surpass $7 Billion by 2020

Source of the news: http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/market-reportsresearch/32-cagr-to-2020-reaching-7-billion-for-software-defined-storage-market-reportsnreports-com/ The global software-defined storage (SDS) market 2016-2020 report says rise of OpenStack will be a key trend for market growth as OpenStack…

VMware NSX Sessions at VMworld 2016

Source of the news: http://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2016/08/vmware-nsx-breakout-session-guide-introductory-intermediate-advanced-vmworld-2016.html#.V7adLTXm7Dc Monday, August 29 Time Level Session ID Session Title 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Introductory NET7834 Introduction to VMware NSX 12:30 PM…

How segment routing could be a boon to SDN

Source of the article: http://searchsdn.techtarget.com/tip/How-segment-routing-could-be-a-boon-to-SDN Author: Terry Slattery Segment routing, or SR, is an innovative alternative to OpenFlow and other platforms underpinning software-defined networking. You can think…