#cloudnfv

Alcatel-Lucent は今日の発表で、同社の CloudBand プラットフォームが年末に行われるであろうフィールドトライアルと36のベンダに成長したパートナーエコシステムによって進展があると主張している。 CloudBand はネットワーク機能仮想化 (NFV) をクラウドの中で実行する為の手段だ。 ― “仮想テレコム” プラットフォーム、最初同社はそう呼んだ。 「それは ‘NFV’よりクールな言葉だと思う。」と、CloudBand 担当の副社長、Dor Skuler は述べる。 それはノード ― クラウドベースのリソースを収容する、OpenStack-管理のラック ― とリ...

The Linux Foundation, a possible new ETSI effort, the ExperiaSphere experiment from analyst Tom Nolle — NFV continues to move quickly, with major changes afoot as the discussion turns toward coding and open-source.

Alcatel-Lucent claims its CloudBand platform is thriving, with field trials likely by the end of the year and a partner ecosystem that’s grown to 36 vendors, as the company is announcing today. CloudBand is a means of running network functions virtualization (NFV) in the cloud — a &...

VMware finally gets a CEO, a year after Steve Herrod left; Cyan and Procera won’t bring post-holiday cheer to Q4 results; CloudNFV expands its potential ‘as-a-service’ arsenal; Microsoft might have blade servers up its sleeve.

Amid this week’s news: NFV makes progress, as shown by NSN and CloudNFV; ScaleXtreme debuts Advanced Cloud Management, targeting enterprise users new to public clouds; Extreme Networks gains more than market share by acquiring Enterasys; big data could play a big role in SDN.

NFV lives! In demos, at least. Virtualized network functions (VNFs) were on display in Bad Homburg, Germany, last week, as NFV continued its quick progress. CloudNFV and Metaswitch say they’re ready to go, while EANTC issued its first validations of VNFs.