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• 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.

• 11 tips to prepare for SDN

  Making the leap to SDN? Don't jump in blind. It helps to know what software-defined networking is, first off, and then what it can do for you.

• Forum created to push optical SDNs

  SDN start-up Vello Systems this week said it is forming an organization to promote open source and software-defined networking principles to optical enterprise networking.

• At Goldman Sachs SDN is déjà vu all over again

  Goldman Sachs has been doing SDNs for a long time. It just wasn't called SDNs when the investment giant invested in network programmability. It was just a bunch of APIs, software development kits and other code used to cobble together a large number of various specialized networks – trading, investment banking and the like -- across the globe.

• SDNs move from theory to reality

  SDNs have gone from concept to reality.

• NEC scales OpenFlow SDNs

  NEC this week rolled out a new version of its SDN software that includes an OpenFlow-based method for interconnecting data centers.

• Brocade seeks SDN edge with early OpenFlow 1.3 support

  Brocade this week announced broad support for OpenFlow 1.3 across its IP product line to extend SDNs beyond research and academia and into commercial and enterprise networks.

• Is SDN your next security nightmare?

  The big buzzword in networking these days is Software-Defined Networking (SDN), a de-coupling of the data plane and the control plane that allows you to manage physical devices via a software-based controller sitting on a general purpose server.

• HP looking for new networking head

  HP is looking for a new leader for its networking division as Senior Vice President and General Manager Bethany Mayer is moving on to head the company's new Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) strategy.

• Juniper broadens SDN for carriers

  Juniper Networks this week at Mobile World Congress is expanding its carrier SDN portfolio with controller and management products designed to accelerate customized service creation and provisioning.

• Three essentials steps to a software-defined datacentre

  Imagine this in your datacentre: A swath of compute, networking and storage hardware from a variety of different vendors that are all controlled not individually but by software that overlays the entire operation.

• SDN in action: Pertino service lets users turn up a network without buying a switch, router or server

  Pertino Networks wants to make accessing networking services just as easy as spinning up and using cloud resources.

• Enterprise SDN use lags service providers'

  Enterprise adoption of SDNs is lagging that of service providers due to several factors, primarily the criticality of the network itself.

• Understanding the differences between Software Defined Networking, network virtualization and Network Functions Virtualization

  The network team is being bombarded with configuration requests that can take days or weeks to handle, but luckily several approaches are emerging that promise to increase network agility, chief among them Network Virtualization (NV), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and Software Defined Networking (SDN).

• SDN start-up Big Switch bullish on new course

  SDN start-up Big Switch Networks is ready to embark on a new chapter after rebooting its business late last summer.