Over the course of the past decade we’ve seen a proliferation of servers, often as commodity-based products from the usual sources, being added to facilities for nearly every system in the video ...

At the 2014 Federal Forum in Washington, D.C., Terry Halvorsen, then-acting CIO (now CIO) of the Defense Department, addressed the growing importance of software-defined networking (SDN) in government ...

The Pentagon is already embracing software-based network technologies of the future for more portable, secured connected devices. (Staff Sgt. Rubin J. Tan/Marine Corps) Today’s battlespace is defined ...

The value proposition is twofold; (1) hardware resources are virtualized and treated as a utility, and (2) application requirements drive the utilization of these resources. So, rather than manually ...

As nearly every other aspect of industrial technology goes digital, so too are industrial networks. And not just the communications that travel across these networks—which have long been digitized—but ...

Marty Spain is CDW•G's Director of Federal Services & Solutions, and leads a team of energetic problem solvers and creative thinkers to support some of the most complex national security systems.

An approach to designing and operating large-scale networks that is based on programming the forwarding decisions in routers and switches via software from a central server. Software-defined ...

Joel Snyder, Ph.D., is a senior IT consultant with 30 years of practice. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, messaging and networks, Dr. Snyder is a popular speaker and ...

Although vendor-written, this contributed piece does not promote a product or service and has been edited and approved by Network World editors. Software Defined Networking (SDN) promises increased ...

The origin of software-defined networking (SDN), which is thought to have gotten its start around 2008, isn’t that long ago all things considered. But more than a decade in the IT space might as well ...

Learn about 3 different models of a software-defined access network (SDAN) and how it can be applied to any access technology including the SDN framework. So far, SDN control has referred to the ...