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• Docker buys SDN start-up for container networking

  Linux container company Docker this week said it would acquire SDN start-up SocketPlane, a developer of a native networking stack for Docker software.

• Avaya extends SDN offerings

  Avaya this week extended its SDN arsenal with an architecture and supporting products designed to simplify enterprise connectivity and application provisioning.

• HP latest to unbundle switch hardware, software

  HP has joined the disaggregation party through two partnerships that will produce a branded white box switch capable of running multiple network operating systems.

• How network admins can survive SDN

  With the advent of SDN, there's been <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2175605/lan-wan/sdn-changing-the-shape-of-networking--it-careers.html">a lot of speculation about the future of the network administrator</a>.

• Brocade acquires Riverbed ADC to bolster virtual delivery services

  Brocade this week said it will acquire Riverbed Technology's SteelApp product line in an all-cash asset transaction. Terms were not disclosed.

• Big Switch updates SDN controller options

  Big Switch Networks this week rolled out a new release of its cloud fabric software, which includes support for VMware vSphere environments and Dell switches, among other features.

• The first place to tackle SDN? In the WAN

  Disruptive innovation in infrastructure is on the rise, and nowhere is that more evident than in the Software Defined Networking movement. But while much of the SDN discussion has focused on the data center, the better initial use case might be in the wide area network. One advocate of that approach is Michael Elmore, IT Senior Director of the Enterprise Network Engineering Infrastructure Group at Cigna, a global health service company headquartered in Bloomfield, Connecticut. Michael is also on the board of Open Network Users Group (ONUG). Network World Editor in Chief John Dix asked Elmore to participate in an email-based Q&A to explore the promise of Software Defined WANS.

• SDN start-up says it is best funded in industry

  Pluribus Networks, an SDN start-up developing converged compute, network, storage and virtualization systems, said it raised $50 million in a Series D round of funding led by Temasek, an investment company based in Singapore with a net portfolio value of $177 billion.

• Brocade offering free SDN for one year

  Brocade this week said it is shipping its SDN controller and offering it free for one year.

• Why SDN all-stars are heading to Brocade

  Why is it that a who's who of SDN developers is landing at Brocade?

• SDN in 2014: A year of non-stop action

  The past year was a frantic one in the SDN industry as many players made strategic and tactical moves to either get out ahead of the curve on software-defined networking, or try to offset its momentum.

• Cisco Catalyst 6500 shops adopting Nexus 9000

  SAN JOSE -- By the end of 2015, <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2365282/data-center/3-steps-for-moving-ciscos-catalyst-6500-to-the-nexus-9000.html">all of Cisco's Catalyst 6500 data center customers will have deployed the company's new Nexus 9000 switch</a>.

• Cisco seen building momentum in Nexus 9K, ACI

  Cisco is getting a lift from apparent momentum behind its Nexus 9000 switches and Application Centric Infrastructure fabric. Investment firm UBS boosted its Cisco stock price targets after discussions with EMEA chief Chris Dedicoat yielded numbers UBS found encouraging.

• Juniper unbundles switch hardware, software

  The switch/software disaggregation derby has begun.

• SDN tools increase WAN efficiency

  Configuring, maintaining and changing WAN infrastructure can be a nightmare given the distributed nature of the beast and all the remote touch points, but emerging Software Defined Networking (SDN) tools promise to make these operations more efficient.