Like SDN, NFV is fundamentally about the shift from proprietary hardware-based solutions to more open, software-based substitutes. For example, instead of a dedicated firewall appliance (typically ...

For example, Affirmed Networks supplies virtual EPCs, and Metaswitch specializes in virtual IMS. Leading IT suppliers provide NFVi solutions, such as HPE, Dell-EMC, VMware, and Red Hat.

SDN, NFT, and network virtualization are all new terms that are sometimes used interchangeably, but they each have different meanings, writes Wikibon Networking Analyst Stuart Miniman in his latest Wi ...

According to a recent survey, the reliability of virtualization technology and coping with the coexistence of virtual and legacy domains ranked as the two most concerning aspects of virtual networks.

For example, a virtual network could support IPv6 application workloads on top of an IPv4 physical network. This isolation protects the underlying physical infrastructure from any possible attack ...

For example, if you virtualize an application that runs on a set of physical servers, the virtual machines probably want to find each other and cooperate with each other over the network exactly ...

While system virtualization — and to a lesser extent, desktop virtualization — has held most of the virtualization limelight, there is also a growing trend in network virtualization. Most of ...

New virtualization technologies make it possible to corral and organize the myriad network appliances in the data center that monitor network performance and usage as well as provide security.

In this newsletter, we will discuss primarily the first of those initiatives - virtualization. We will, however, also allude to some other closely related changes that are impacting the IT ...