Software Defined Infrastructure: Communication service providers embracing Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are endorsing OpenStack as providing the common API Service Framework required to deliver their applications and services with a lower time to market.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Infrastructure security for policy compliance. Controlling and protecting data center workloads with Intel solutions.

Intelligent Networking: Saar Gillai, HP Senior VP, says his two most often heard questions are: ‘How ready is the cloud?’ and ‘What NFV app should we do first?’ The good news, he says, is that the carrier grade scaled-out cloud [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: The Communications industry is at an inflection point, and Intel innovations are enabling transformation. AT&T’s John Donovan, senior executive vice president, AT&T Technology & Network Ops, explains how Intel technology is enabling the transformation of AT&T’s network.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Replacing older servers in your datacenter with new, upgraded ones can go a long way to getting you the performance you need as your business grows. When selecting replacement hardware for your legacy systems, you can go [See the full post…]

Intelligent Networking: Sandra Rivera, VP, Data Center Group & General Manager, Network Platforms Group at Intel, speaks from Big Telecom 2015 in Chicago about how Intel is accelerating transformation in the network. She discusses how Intel’s Open Network Platform (ONP), [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: See how an SDN and NFV-based Intel Open Network Platform simplifies network complexity, speeds scalability, and reduces cost.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel ONP server reference design enables effective deployment & centralized control of virtualized appliances and network services on open standards.

Intelligent Networking: Intel Ethernet MOCS transceivers are a new low-cost alternative to 40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ for End-of-Row (EoR) connection distances, including switch-to-switch connections. They are also a robust and reliable alternative for 40GBASE-CR4 for Top-of-Rack (ToR) connections.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Intel Ethernet Flow Director is a technology that successfully accelerates getting incoming packets to their consuming application.

Intelligent Networking: Extending Intel Virtualization Technology beyond server virtualization to the network with hardware optimizations and offloads for the rapid prvisioning of networks in an agile data center.

Software Defined Infrastructure: With Intel processors, it’s possible to transition from using discrete architectures per major workload (application, control, plane, packet and single processing) to a single architecture that consolidates the workloads into a more scalable and simplified solution.

Software Defined Infrastructure: As strategic approaches such as software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) become more mainstream, combinations of both OS-level virtualization and hypervisor-based virtual machines (VMs) often provide dramatic cost, agility, and performance benefits, throughout the data [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: Hardware and virtual application delivery controllers (ADCs) from F5 Networks help ensure users can connect to applications from anywhere in the world, regardless of device, cloud, or enterprise architecture.

Software Defined Infrastructure: F5 Networks application delivery controllers (ADCs) are helping today’s most advanced and efficient data centers meet these demands. Based on Intel Xeon processors and Intel QuickAssist Technology, these purpose-built appliances reside at the front of the data [See the full post…]

Intel’s Network Builders Program was launched last year, designed to accelerate the SDN and NFV industry. The aim is to work closely with the industry ecosystem, to innovate around Intel’s technologies.

Intelligent Networking: HP’s OpenNFV is going well, Werner Schaefer tells Martyn Warwick. The effort is spread across HP’s global labs, including those at Grenoble, Houston, Fort Collins, Tel Aviv and Seoul. The initiative now has nine partners including BT, Brocade, [See the full post…]

Software Defined Infrastructure: DPDK is a software library that lets you do packet acceleration on general-purpose, x86 Intel processors. DPDK means you can bring big packet workloads onto a general-purpose processor and then use the additional cores on the chip [See the full post…]

Intelligent Compute: F5 Networks CTO Karl Triebes describes how the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v3 helps improve application performance and virtualization.

Intelligent Networking: Infographic – See how to boost data center network bandwidth on 10GBASE-T while simplifying connectivity with existing cables.

Intelligent Networking: Intel IT is adopting software-defined networking (SDN) to enable on-demand provisioning of networks and network services. to offer better support for internal customers.

Software Defined Infrastructure: Server upgrades to platforms featuring Windows Server 2012, Intel Xeon processor E5-2697 v2, Intel SSD DC S3700 series, Intel Ethernet 10GbE, and more help accelerate IT modernization to maximize business efficiency and minimize operating expenses.

Intelligent Networking: AT&T and Telefonica share Intel’s relevance in their network transformation.

Intelligent Networking: This video shows how network virtualization overlays work and the key benefits that IT managers experience deploying a virtual network.

Software Defined Infrastructure: This infographic shows how 10GbE Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapters and FCoE support unified networking to solve the cost and performance problems of separate storage and networking infrastructure.