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News

• Top 5 predictions on the ‘workplace of the future’: Ecosystm

  5G services will push organisations to rethink the networks next year while communications-platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) adoption is set to rise, according to new report.

• How Symantec's CIO used SDN, Cloud to pull off Veritas split

  Symantec CIO Sheila Jordan had to stand up the company's storage business on its own infrastructure in 12 months. Here is how she did it.

• SDN is evolutionary, not revolutionary

  The need to support increasingly complex and virtualised environments with greater agility is driving considerable change in data networking. Read why new software-defined architectures are a key to evolving in the digital world.

• Enterprise disaggregation is inevitable

  Back in March, the issue was raised whether disaggregation -- decoupling network software from hardware for choice and flexibility -- could play in the enterprise as well as the service provider realm.

• Here comes bare metal and NFV for the enterprise

  Two hardware vendors this week unveiled products to bring commodity switching and virtualization to enterprises through service providers.

• Enterprises lukewarm to SDNs

  Even though service providers are well on their way with SDNs, enterprise adoption of the technology is slowed by a host of issues.

• NSA uses OpenFlow for tracking ... its network

  Just as the industry is becoming more comfortable with SDNs, the NSA says it's using them too.

• Alcatel-Lucent uses SDN to meld IP, optical services

  Alcatel-Lucent this week extended its carrier SDN product line with an automation and network control system designed to accelerate service provisioning from multivendor IP and optical infrastructure.

• Big Switch SDN update aids VMware integration, bare metal monitoring

  Big Switch Networks rolled out new versions of its SDN-based cloud fabric and monitoring applications which feature tighter integration with VMware, among other enhancements.

• SDN ushering in "Golden Age" of network administration

  IT organisations have been virtualising compute servers for years, and now it's time for network admins to have their turn at virtualisation.

• Extreme outlines SDN policy

  Extreme Networks this week said it will support a community-developed policy framework in its SDN controller as well as tighter integration with Microsoft's unified communications platform.

• Cisco secures its SDN

  Cisco is looking to provide threat protection for data centers and clouds by integrating acquired security technology with its programmable, policy-based networking portfolio.

• HP switches fortify campus SDNs

  HP this week strengthened its campus networking portfolio with modules for a switch chassis it announced almost a year ago, and an SDN-based management application.

• Brocade switch extends SDN, campus automation

  Brocade this week unveiled a campus switch and other enhancements to better support video and wireless traffic, improve management and extend <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/category/sdn/">software defined networking</a>.

• Does Juniper have too many SDNs?

  After last week's Innovation Day announcements, Juniper Networks has a range of SDN, data center fabric and data center switching products to choose from.