VMware is making a case that network virtualization can improve security in the enterprise. VMware, one of the biggest proponents of virtualizing the entire data center, says CIOs concerned about ...

As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

The Software Defined Networking movement is still evolving, but profiles of SDN users are becoming more clear and we’re getting a bead on some of the common evaluation criteria companies are using to ...

Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

Analysts get paid to have opinions. Some observers think that those opinions have gotten too homogenized over the last several years, more groupthink is evident, and analysts as a community are in ...

While network virtualization is a key technology, the vendor space is crowded. "With the Big Four leading the charge in data center virtualization, the pressure for startups to get deals done or merge ...

What is network slicing and how can it make efficient use of carriers’ wireless capacity to enable virtual networks that exactly fit customer needs? Network slicing technology has large parts of the ...

Giving everyone with a wireless card access to the same places on the network creates risk. Guests at an office, for example, may need to access the Internet from the lobby, but they shouldn’t have ...