For example, instead of a dedicated firewall appliance (typically costing $200 or $300), the same functionality can be supplied by software via a virtual firewall, one of many available Virtual ...

That’s why VMware now offers NV and NFV security functions in VMware NSX. SDN uses canned processes to provision the network. For example, instead of building a network tap using an appliance ...

The latest example of this is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The name of the NFV game is to take such appliances or server-based network operations as Network Address Translation (NAT ...

F5, the global leader in delivering and securing every app and API, announced F5 BIG-IP Next Cloud-Native Network Functions (CNF) 2.0, an evolved solution that significantly enhances the capabilities ...

Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), chiefly responsible for Kubernetes, and the recently established Linux Foundation Networking (LF Networking) group are collaborating on a new class of ...