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• Brocade acquires mobile SDN company

  Brocade has announced plans to acquire Connectem, a privately-held company whose virtualization software maps mobile workloads to clouds.

• Brocade offering free SDN for one year

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

• Virtualisation will let operators develop new services faster, says Alcatel-Lucent

  To help operators virtualize their infrastructures, Alcatel-Lucent has opened up to third party vendors an internal cloud platform that will run features such as DNS and firewalls.

• Rackspace beefs up cloud networking features with Brocade's Vyatta technology

  Public cloud and managed hosting provider Rackspace has rolled technology from Vyatta into its services, allowing customers to set granulated network segmentation policies that dictate which users and what type of traffic have access to which hosted resources.

• Brocade unleashes a data center barrage

  Brocade this week extended its data center networking portfolio with hardware and software enhancements designed to better integrate and align physical and virtual resources.

• Virtualized Security Offers Challenges (But Not as Many as You Think)

  Small and medium-sized businesses are beginning to find that virtualized network security isn't as different as physical network security as they thought. This makes cloud adoption simpler, but it also presents unique challenges.

• Brocade taps industry veteran Carney as CEO

  Brocade has named former Xsigo Systems CEO Lloyd Carney as its new top executive effective immediately.

• 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.

• Linux Foundation welcomes new members, as existing heavyweights up their commitments

  The Linux Foundation made several membership announcements over the weekend, welcoming new members Cloudsoft, Cloudscaling, CloudSigma and DreamHost to the fold at LinuxCon Europe, currently being held in Barcelona.

• Brocade buys Cisco nemesis Vyatta

  Brocade has announced its acquisition of Vyatta, a privately held maker of open source-based network software, for an undisclosed amount of cash.

• Vyatta routing software certified for IPv6

  The Vyatta open-source network operating system has been certified for IPv6, which is likely to become a key capability as the number of Internet addresses available under the current version of IP diminishes.