Network and systems management tools typically come as software applications or hardware devices. But a new trend toward virtual appliances combines the ease of hardware installation with the ...

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

SDN is often thought of as the abstraction of the networking control plane, or the system that decides where traffic flows across a network, from the networking data plane, which is the system that ...

Hardware Disruption I’ve touched on this a little already, but SDN is provoking a sea-change in terms of the hardware that’s used in networking. The idea behind switching to white boxes, or COTS ...