Hardware vendors will declare partnerships with VMware's NSX platform at next week's VMworld, as VMware takes an interest in making its SDN platform cooperate with tangible, physical-world switches ...

Conforming to the axiom that it’s easier to join ’em than fight ’em, Cisco launched its first software based network switch this week – the Nexus 1000V – as an integrated component of VMware’s ESX ...

Data center switch maker Arista Networks this week is unveiling software designed to improve visibility, configuration and provisioning in virtual environments. Data center switch maker Arista ...

Pendulums are always swinging back and forth in the datacenter, with functions being offloaded from one thing and onloaded to another cheaper thing that is often more flexible or faster. So it is with ...