SDxCentral reports that the venture capital company which owns Procera Networks is purchasing all remaining stock in Sandvine Networks to merge them together. Francisco Partners and PNI, affiliate companies are…
AT&T Welcomes Brocade Employees as It Closes Vyatta Acquisition
AT&T have completed their acquisition of the Vyatta assets from Brocade. Their press-release announces the deal as a way of AT&T continuing their network transformation. This is one of the…
PicoCluster create ARM NFV platform in a box
PicoCluster is known for making ARM clusters, with a selection of Raspberry Pi, oDroid or Pine64 platforms, switches and connections to the outside world in an acrylic cube. They recently…
Cisco buys AppDynamics
AppDynamics provide an application performance monitoring platform, using tools to monitor application transactions and store this data in the cloud for analysis. By utilising the AppDynamics API within the program,…
PLUMgrid pudding for Christmas, who gains weight?
In 2013 PLUMgrid emerged from stealth mode, delivering a virtualised network infrastructure using standard x86 hardware, using an "IO Visor". This sat within the host, rather than using an external…
IBM acquires Sanovi for Cloud DR Orchestration
IBM is acquiring disaster recovery orchestration specialist Sanovi. Based in Banglore, India, Sanovi created Sanovi Cloud Continuity, a platform providing automated backup, testing and DR. This has been used on…
Masergy launches SD-WAN solution
Masergy has launched a new managed SD-WAN solution. This solution will enhance their hybrid WAN capability. It will reach General Availability by Q4 2016, and to aid marketing, they have…
Microsoft buys LinkedIn for the data?
In an unusual move, Microsoft has announced that it will acquire LinkedIn. The deal announced yesterday (13 June 2016) for $26.2bn. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner posted the update to his…