In 2014, companies and open source programmers alike are working as hard as they can to virtualize hardware into software. The latest example of this is Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The ...

Over the last decade or so, open source development has skyrocketed, and network management software has ridden that wave. Many frustrated IT administrators have turned to free tools to monitor, ...

92% of organizations view open source networking as critical to their future infrastructure plans. Projects like SONiC enable hardware independence, helping organizations achieve up to 50% reduction ...

Build or buy? That's the typical discussion around network automation. In reality, however, the discussion is more involved and nuanced than that. Every project today has some open source. It drives ...

Open source router company Vyatta debuted earlier this year with a Red Hat-style alternative to Cisco and Juniper offerings: the Open Flexible Router, an open source-based WAN router and firewall ...

Network management is a critical aspect of IT operations and service delivery. As networks grow to include more and more connected devices, the complexity of the network increases, resulting in the ...

Open source networking technologies are now leading the way forward for enterprises, cloud and telco. "LFN is a combination of the largest of the large, who actually want to change where the market is ...

As Frank Frankovsky, chairman of OCP, said: We are working together, in the open, to design and build smarter, more scalable, more efficient datacenter technologies — but we're still connecting them ...

The Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) project, an open source network operating system (NOS) under the Linux Foundation, is accelerating its growth today with new members and ...

The container and cloud security market is riding a wave of growth, and one of the companies capitalizing on that opportunity is Sysdig Inc. Founded in 2013, Sysdig grew out of an open-source project ...