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• Being a CIO focused on customer experience

  While many CIOs are grappling with the need to move beyond IT operations and contribute more to improving customer service, it’s a concept that VMware’s global CIO, Tony Scott, understands very well.
  

• Cumulus lands another SDN supporter for its Linux offering

  SDN company Midokura this week said it will support for Cumulus Networks' Linux network operating system in its network virtualization software.

• What CIOs need to know about software defined networking

  Software defined networking applies the abstraction concepts of hardware virtualisation to networking infrastructure. This works well for cloud implementations, which need significant configuration and planning. But SDN and network virtualisation may still be too immature for prime time.

• Juniper closer to Cisco in shipping SDN brains

  Juniper Networks this week will extend its SDN offerings with the release of its controller, roughly six months ahead of schedule.

• Dell dives deeper into SDN with new hardware and software

  Dell says it's hoping to move closer to the forefront of data center technology with the release today of a suite of new products designed for software-defined networking.

• Making sense of the myriad SDN offerings

  With the range of software-defined networking (SDN) announcements coming from vendors large and small it is hard to figure out which SDN approach is best for what.

• The return of the network operating system (NOS)

  Will there be a market for SDN network operating systems? The answer will be critical to the evolution of SDN standards and the development of applications that leverage SDN capabilities.

• Technologies to watch 2013: Cisco products, more maturity for SDNs in 2013

  There was a lot of news and hype swirling around Software-Defined Networking in 2012, so what's on tap for 2013?

• Cisco uses LISP to articulate programmability

  Network virtualization is one of the hotter trends in the industry today, and when Cisco speaks to it you hear a distinct LISP.

• Backed by $48M, startup Plexxi unveils SDN wares

  SDN startup Plexxi this week unveiled its products, which attempt to re-engineer data center networks for new applications and cloud traffic patterns.

• Cisco, VMware and OpenFlow fragment SDNs

  Juniper Networks Executive Vice President Bob Muglia spelled it out succinctly: the nascent software-defined networking market is morphing into three camps - OpenFlow/open source, Cisco and VMware.

• Alcatel-Lucent to take on Cisco, VMware in crowding SDN field

  Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise division this week jumped into the SDN market with a strategy to fortify products to enhance network programmability and virtualization.

• OpenFlow startup takes aim at Cisco, VMware

  Big Switch Networks has announced the general availability of its OpenFlow-based software-defined networking products and applications, as well as customers and partners.