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 ...

As IT professionals look to private and hybrid cloud to boost their digital businesses, OpenStack has become a leading platform for evaluation. Some enterprises have already established the practical ...

Brocade announced today the availability of its virtual network function (VNF) Manager. The product is a commercial version of OpenStack Tacker, an OpenStack lead project designed to make it easier to ...

Cloud has grown. From its pre-millennial beginnings and even throughout its prehistory when cloud computing was just the curly-edged circular diagrams drawn on whiteboards by network engineers ...

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.