A new IT buzzword (that is, hot on the heels of the now fairly worn "cloud") is software-defined networking. Driven by the need for data center networks to be more agile and policy driven than ...

A new Network Controller and the same software-defined networking (SDN) stack in the Microsoft Azure cloud are among the significant SDN capabilities coming to Windows Server 2016. Microsoft's quest ...

“Windows Server 2012 innovations in SDN such as Hyper-V Network Virtualization help enterprises cloud-optimize IT. Huawei's Hyper-V Network Virtualization gateway, gives virtualized networks and ...

One of the biggest problems with traditional networking is it lacks the agility to quickly adapt to changing business needs. You may need to make major topology changes to a physical network. However, ...

Mellanox ConnectX-3 Pro with NVGRE offload simplifies cloud deployments, extends scalability and maximizes application performance in Windows Server Hyper-V based infrastructures "With Windows Server ...

Microsoft and VMware are in pitched battle in the private cloud space. Both are worthwhile contenders, so how do you pick the right one for your project? There's a lot to like in both Windows Server ...

[ Editor’s note: This article has been revised to underscore the fact that we tested VMware vSphere with vCenter Server but we tested Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V without System Center 2012, and ...

FalconStor this week became one of the first storage vendors to announce its support of Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology. FalconStor Network Storage Server (NSS) now supports Hyper-V ...

Summary: NEC's new virtual switch brings Hyper-V closer to being an acceptable alternative to VMware. In a potentially game changing move, NEC today announced their PF1000 virtual switch that runs on ...