Standards based operator cloud demonstration at Network X
Friday, October 27, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
The CloudCO demonstration to be led by the Broadband Forum at this year’s Network X will show how network operators can unlock network efficiencies and new service delivery from a disaggregated and virtualized software-defined broadband network.
CloudCO’s service delivery automation focus is fundamental for operators to help reduce their operational costs...
ADTRAN signs joint development project with Orange
Monday, April 27, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
ADTRAN, Inc. announced they have signed a joint development project with Orange as part of its Access Renewal and Evolution Strategy (ARES) program. The partnership is focused on the application of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technology to fixed fiber access networks.
“For Orange, the evolution of our Fixed Access Optical Network represents a challenge an...
Acumos AI Challenge sponsors to give out $100k in prizes
Thursday, July 26, 2018 by Richard Harris
AT&T and Tech Mahindra have announced that they will be sponsoring the Acumos AI Challenge, an open source developer competition that seeks innovative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions.
Working with The Linux Foundation, the companies encourage students, developers and data scientists to submit their ground-breaking AI solutions for the chance to win prize m...
The evolution of Cloud Firebase
Thursday, October 5, 2017 by Richard Harris
These days, if you're developing a mobile or web app, there's a good chance you'll need to sync your data to the cloud. Maybe that's because your users want to share data with their friends for some exciting in-app collaboration, or maybe they simply want to access their data from more than one device.But syncing data between all those devices and the cloud isn't quite ...
The evolving role of the Network Engineer
Monday, July 31, 2017 by Grant Ho
Many network engineers still struggle to manage key IT workflows manually, including network troubleshooting, documentation, change management, and cybersecurity. Managing these workflows is becoming increasingly difficult, and the issue is only expected to escalate as networks grow and become more complex with the move towards software-defined networking (SDN) and clou...
IT cloud be holding your business back
Friday, April 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
Logicalis US Asks CIOs: Can Your IT Infrastructure Support a Bimodal IT Model on the Same Platform at the Same Time?Organizations of every size in every vertical market are grappling with one universal challenge: Defining what “digital transformation” means to them and mapping a strategy that is flexible and dynamic enough to achieve it while simultaneously support...
DevOps in the cloud
Monday, January 23, 2017 by Jeff Klaus
There’s no question that DevOps delivers significant benefits to enterprise IT, including improved productivity and efficiency, shorter time-to-market, more reliable releases and higher levels of end-user satisfaction.Meanwhile, enterprises, attracted by the flexibility and the lack of infrastructure overhead that Cloud solutions offer — advantages that are ever more ap...
Apple developer patents, hacks, and iOS 10 oh my! October issue lands
Saturday, October 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
It’s hard to believe - but fall is upon us and 2017 is right around the corner. October always ushers in the feeling of campfires, fall-festivals, and what the flip and I going to do with my apps for the holiday season coming up!
Not to worry everyone - our October issue is here, and it’s over 90 pages of industry news, tips, and articles ...
Mobeewave Tells Us About the Challenges With Mobile Wallets
Monday, September 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
Mobeewave is a Montreal-based FinTech company that has developed a patented technology that will enable banks around the world to capitalize on the market for cash-in-hand transactions. Their game-changing payment acceptance platform facilitates in-person, proximity mobile payments and is available as a white label platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology for the banking...
Nimbix Adds Docker Integration to JARVICE Platform
Friday, September 23, 2016 by Ron Beaman
Nimbix just announced a new capability, PushToCompute, a method for rapid cloud deployment and monetization of containerized compute intensive applications. This capability is built into the JARVICE platform which powers the Nimbix Cloud.Through the added feature on the JARVICE platform, developers are able to import the latest version of their application int...
As Apple's Encryption Deadline Looms, Openwave Mobility Launches SmartidM
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 by Austin Harris
Openwave Mobility has announced the launch of Smart Identity Manager (SmartidM) for mobile operators to effectively manage their subscribers’ data, and launch new services. SmartidM is part of the company’s Subscriber Data Management (SDM) portfolio of products. Use cases for SmartidM include centralized ID management for fraud prevention, delivering BingeOn...
How Software Defined Networking Is Changing App Development
Thursday, September 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Midokura is a global software innovator in network virtualization founded in 2010. The co-founders began their careers building distributed systems for the world’s preeminent e-commerce website: Amazon.com. Recognizing that companies around the world faced similar challenges and needed networking infrastructure not found in conventional networking, they applied th...
New SoftwareDefined Networking Consortium Established
Thursday, July 14, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), an independent provider of testing and standards conformance services for the networking industry, has created the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Consortium to enable one-stop shopping for controller and switch interoperability, conformance and benchmark testing. The primary goal of the SDN C...
A Deep Dive into Network Functions Virtualization and SoftwareDefined Networking
Tuesday, May 24, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
We recently visited with Tim Diep, CA Technologies Director of SDN/NFV Product Management, to discuss how networks in the application economy need to transform through software defined networking and network functions virtualization.ADM: What is Software-Defined Networking/Network Functions Virtualization?Diep: Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a technology focused o...
NEC and Netcracker Launch New Agile Virtualization Platform and Practice
Monday, May 9, 2016 by Richard Harris
NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology have teamed to launch a new Agile Virtualization Platform and Practice (AVP), which offers a set of tools, platforms and services for Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).With the new AVP solution, NEC and Netcracker will help service providers move their operations, business processes and...
Driving DevOps: The 5 New Requirements for Agile App Delivery
Monday, November 2, 2015 by Kasey Cross
The benefits DevOps can provide for an enterprise are nothing less than the framework for staying competitive in an era defined by change. Fundamentally, DevOps allows enterprises to:- Balance Innovation with Infrastructure Stability: The high performance fueled by DevOps is driven by continuous deployment on the development side combined with heavy automation, continuo...
LinuxCon North America to Offer Expanded Access to Cloud and Container Technologies
Tuesday, June 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Linux Foundation will again host LinuxCon on August 17 – 19 in Seattle, Washington offering the opportunity for developers, sys admins, architects and all types and levels of technical talent to gather together at one event for education, collaboration and problem-solving for the Linux platform.The event offers more than 100 sessions ranging from tutorials to deep t...
Ravello’s Smart Labs Provides Networking and Security on AWS and Google Cloud
Monday, May 18, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Ravello Systems has launched the Smart Labs networking and security platform that combines the functionality of data center labs with the elasticity of AWS and Google Cloud. Ravello’s Smart Labs are powered by a virtual overlay cloud with software-defined networking, with support for running existing VMware and KVM virtual appliances, in a fully fenced environment,...
Report Shows Linux Developers Are Increasingly in Demand
Tuesday, April 21, 2015 by Richard Harris
A recent report show that IT departments are increasing efforts to hire Linux developers. The 2015 Linux Jobs Report, which forecasts the Linux job market based on a survey of hiring managers and Linux professionals, was commissioned by the Linux Foundation.The 2015 Linux Jobs Report includes data from hiring managers (1,010) and Linux professionals (3,446) and provides...
The Linux Foundation Announces Guide to Building and Deploying to the Open Cloud
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 by Richard Harris
The 2015 “Guide to the Open Cloud: Open Cloud Projects Profiled” is The Linux Foundation’s second publication on the open cloud, which was first published in October 2013. The updated guide adds new projects and technology categories that have gained importance in the past year. The report covers well-known projects like Cloud Foundry, OpenStack, Docker and Xen Project,...
A Look Ahead: The Top Ten Strategic Technology Trends for 2015
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
Its time for the prognosticators to get out their crystal balls and make predictions for 2015. And as it relates to the top 10 technology strategic trends, Gartner has done just that. Gartner defines a strategic technology trend as one with the potential for significant impact on an organization in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact includ...
Ravello Systems Move Hypervisor Cloud Application Provider from Beta to Full Availability
Friday, August 16, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Ravello Systems has announced the general availability of its software-as-a-service (SAAS) Cloud Application Hypervisor provider. The service allows enterprises to use a variety of public clouds to develop and test on-premise applications while maintaining the look and feel of the enterprise’s data center from an application’s perspective.
The Hypervisor service works ...