News/Analysis
What's Behind the Ericsson Swisscom Deal? Pluribus
SDN startup has a big NFV role...
October 12, 2017
News/Analysis
Cato Networks Catches $77M
Cloud service provider Cato draws large funding round to extend secure cloud...
April 07, 2020
News/Analysis
New CEO: Hybrid Cloud and AI Are the Future of IBM
CEO Arvind Krishna starts work with a plan that puts cloud technology in the driver's seat....
April 06, 2020
Futuriom Blog
Inside Microsoft's Massive Push to the Edge
Microsoft is ramping up its edge strategy with Azure Edge Zones, which includes a number of service provider and technology partners. ...
April 03, 2020
News/Analysis
Another Big SD-WAN Deal: Palo Alto Buys CloudGenix
Palo Alto will pay $420 million for CloudGenix to beef up its SD-WAN capabilities. ...
March 31, 2020
News/Analysis
Microsoft Makes Moves to Address Cloud Surge
The COVID-19 crisis is straining enterprise cloud services. Microsoft is the first to admit it....
March 30, 2020
Futuriom Blog
Cisco Unbundles IOS After AT&T Goes Full Whitebox
Cisco finally caves to OS disaggregation...
March 27, 2018
Premium Research
The Ultimate Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Report
Billions of dollars in investment and M&A. Detailed ecosystem overview. More than 50 company profiles. This report has it all...
April 18, 2017
Futuriom Blog
Silver Peak Targets 200% Growth in 2018
SD-WAN sees demand for router replacement...
February 07, 2018
News/Analysis
VMware Paid $449 Million for VeloCloud
VeloCloud wasn't a unicorn and the price may change...
May 21, 2018
Tech Primers
What Are the Components of an SD-WAN?
The SD-WAN is driven by many use cases...
June 19, 2018
Premium Research
The SD-WAN Growth Report
Comprehensive view of the SD-WAN market...
August 17, 2017
News/Analysis
Converged Storage Startup Cohesity Growing 600%
Hyperconverged storage play Cohesity doubling every quarter...
September 01, 2017
Futuriom Blog
How Nuage Is Escalating SD-WAN Battle
Nuage beefs up routing and security, ties together virtualization platform ...
September 25, 2018
News/Analysis
Why Cisco Bought Viptela for $610M
Cisco has bought one of the leading SD-WAN players for a hefty price tag, but it may have had no choice...
May 02, 2017
News/Analysis
How David Cheriton Beats Everyone at Tech Investing
Early investor in Granite, VMware, Google, Arista, and Apstra details approach...
May 24, 2018
Futuriom Blog
Cisco Reinvents SDN, Market Yawns
Cisco rolls out intent-based networking, but does the market care?...
June 21, 2017
Q & A
Futuriom Q&A: Mohit Aron
Cohesity and Nutanix Co-founder details how he discovered a new market...
February 21, 2018
Premium Research
SD-WAN Growth Is Accelerating in 2019
Futuriom boosts revenue forecast of SD-WAN by 130% from last year. ...
June 05, 2019
News/Analysis
A Canadian SD-WAN Startup Has More Customers Than Verizon
TELoIP has 40 employees and 145 customers...
June 29, 2017
Premium Research
The 2018 SD-WAN Growth Outlook Is Here!
Market expected to generate $1.5B in revenue by 2019...
June 21, 2018
News/Analysis
Are App-Specific Networks (ASNs) the Next Big IoT Thing?
SD-WAN gets extended to the IoT cloud...
December 20, 2017
News/Analysis
SD-WAN Market After M&A: Is Aryaka Number One?
SD-WAN vendor sets its sight on IPO...
December 12, 2017
News/Analysis
How IoT & 5G Will Change the Data Center
Regional edge data demand growing around the world...
February 27, 2018
Futuriom Blog
Is Intent-Based Networking SDN 2.0?
IBN targets reduced network operating expense...
September 29, 2017
Futuriom Blog
Aryaka Adds Mobile SD-WAN to Network
NAAS now optimizes mobile connectivity...
June 15, 2017
Futuriom Blog
The Intent of Intent-Based Networking
Who's behind the hottest new buzzword in the networking space?...
July 13, 2017
News/Analysis
RSA Highlights Continued Struggle in Security
Even Cisco exec says "we're screwed" ...
April 20, 2018
Tech Primers
What Is the Growth Rate of IoT Markets?
Can growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) justify the hype? A look at the many ways to quantify the growth of these markets...
April 18, 2017
News/Analysis
Cisco-Arista Settlement Surprises
Cisco "buries the hatchet" on long-running dispute...
August 06, 2018
News/Analysis
Affirmed Puts Virtual EPC in the Cloud
Cloud-based evolved packet core could accelerate 5G service deployment...
September 12, 2018
News/Analysis
Cohesity Expands into File and Object Storage
Takes scale-out approach into unstructured data...
February 14, 2018
News/Analysis
Broadcom Opens Up Chips With SDK
Open-source SDLKT provides deeper hardware integration...
January 30, 2018
Futuriom Blog
It's SD-WAR! VMware Buys VeloCloud
SD-WAN startup acquisition escalates competition...
November 02, 2017
News/Analysis
Interset Advances Use of AI in Security Analytics
Identifying bots without DPI...
January 09, 2018
News/Analysis
JASK Nets $25M for Smarter SOCs
Startup applies AI to cybersecurity data...
June 28, 2018
News/Analysis
Affirmed Pushes Network Slicing Ahead of 5G
Massachusetts startup virtualizes network slicing...
July 11, 2017
News/Analysis
The Great Telco Debate: How to Battle Cloud?
Telcos are looking to reinvent themselves in face of cloud competition...
June 13, 2017
News/Analysis
Affirmed Publishes Xeon Benchmarks for NFV
Mobile NFV provider says Xeon works just fine...
June 25, 2018
Tech Primers
What Is Intent-Based Analytics?
Proliferation of APIs and open networks facilitates using analytics to automate...
June 06, 2018
News/Analysis
How to Value Bitcoin
New asset classes are hard to value...
November 29, 2017
Tech Primers
What Is GE Predix?
GE Predix is a cloud-based platform-as-a-service (PaaS) targeted at the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). It was launched in 2015 designed to help network, manage, and analyze vast amounts of data collected from industrial devices to help au...
May 02, 2017
Free Research
The Futuriom SysSecOps Report
This free, 25-page report details why endpoints are key to integrated security...
June 06, 2017
News/Analysis
Juniper Merges Contrail With Red Hat OpenStack
Contrail Cloud includes a managed service...
November 05, 2017
Tech Primers
Why Security Is the Killer SD-WAN App
SD-WAN pushes security services into the cloud. ...
November 15, 2018
Futuriom Blog
MIT Sloan's Roadmap to Digital Transformation
Transformation initiatives come in many shapes and forms...
January 16, 2018
Free Research
Futuriom CSP Network Automation Report
Based on a survey with 218 communications and cloud service provider, this report recaps goals and challenges of driving automation into cloud-scale networks....
December 13, 2018
Futuriom Blog
Aryaka Beefs Up SD-WAN Security With PASSPORT
Firewall, DDoS, and cloud protection added with Palo Alto, Radware, and Zscaler...
March 12, 2018
Free Research
Why Networks Are Key to a Smarter Data Center
Data-center managers need more powerful networks...
February 19, 2019
Free Research
Why 5G Will Drive Virtualization and Edge Compute
5G, IoT, and Edge Compute trends drive demand for the low-latency network...
May 22, 2019
News/Analysis
Cohesity Raises Monster $250M Round
Cisco and HPE back hyperconverged storage player...
June 11, 2018
News/Analysis
AI Security Startups Target Talent Crunch
Automation aims to solve cybersecurity gaps...
October 02, 2017
News/Analysis
Cohesity Climbs the Stack With Data Management
Helios combines cross-cloud data management and analytics...
August 21, 2018
Futuriom Blog
Arista's Programmable Switches Should Scare Cisco
Arista plugs in Barefoot's Tofino programmable chips...
June 07, 2018
News/Analysis
VMware Focuses on Security Features for NSX 6.4
Aims to make micro-segmentation more accessible...
January 22, 2018
News/Analysis
Silver Peak Claims 1,000th Customer
Rivalry with Cisco heats up as Silver Peak focuses on SD-WAN...
August 14, 2018
News/Analysis
Huawei Launches Ascend Chip, AI Strategy
Huawei looks to drive digital transformation with its own AI chip...
October 10, 2018
News/Analysis
Nutanix Surges on Software Strategy
Shares rise 10 percent on move to phase out hardware...
December 01, 2017
News/Analysis
GE Digital Puts Predix Analytics on IoT Edge
GE runs analytics as a microservice...
October 24, 2017
Tech Primers
What Is Edge Computing for IoT?
Massive growth of IoT data requires new edge computing architectures...
August 07, 2018
Premium Research
SDN 2.0: Monitoring, Analytics, and Automation
New Futuriom report details strategies of 14 leading companies...
January 31, 2018
Q & A
The Futuriom Interview: Shlomo Kramer
Kramer says the telcos won't pull off SD-WAN...
March 28, 2019
Tech Primers
What Is Intent-Based Networking (IBN)?
Building networking automation with IBN...
August 09, 2017
News/Analysis
Ziften, New CEO, Focus on Simplified Endpoint Security
Microsoft partnership drives growth in a hot market...
August 09, 2018
News/Analysis
The Darkest Tales From Black Hat
Vulnerabilities extend from critical infrastructure to pacemakers...
August 10, 2018
News/Analysis
Microsoft Adds SD-WAN, Firewall Services to Azure
Stateful firewall and virtual WAN integrated into cloud service...
July 17, 2018
Futuriom Blog
The FCC's Net Neutrality Hacking Problem
A policy driven by fake comments?...
November 22, 2017
News/Analysis
Telco Systems Teams with Arm
Chips are central to efficiency at the edge...
June 15, 2018
Tech Primers
The Future of the Software-Defined Carrier
Software-defined carriers will deliver a suite of IT and communications services...
September 17, 2018
News/Analysis
Why Public Cloud Is the Future of Security
The cloud looms large for IT security...
September 26, 2017
News/Analysis
Ericsson Throws Cold Water on 5G Hype
Revises sales forecast down again...
November 09, 2017
News/Analysis
What iPhone X Means for Investors & the Future
It's an optical sensing, AI future...
September 13, 2017
News/Analysis
P4 Player Kaloom Emerges From Stealth
SDN startup touts programmable fabrics using Barefoot chips...
October 15, 2018
News/Analysis
Juniper Extends Contrail to Hybrid Clouds
Extends policy management across clouds...
April 25, 2018
Q & A
The Futuriom Q&A: Mike Dvorkin
Get inside the head of one of the great minds of the cloud. ...
January 23, 2020
News/Analysis
Inside Huawei's First SD-WAN Test With EANTC
Huawei was first to plug into EANTC's SD-WAN test suite...
January 08, 2018
News/Analysis
Apstra Raises IBN Stakes With VXLAN Integration
AOS 2.0 delivers underlay-overlay integration...
October 04, 2017
News/Analysis
Itential Bets on Low-Code to Automate Networks
Itential Brings Low-Code Tools to Network Management...
September 05, 2018
News/Analysis
Silver Peak Picks Up $90M for AI-Based SD-WAN
SD-WAN leader looking to leverage machine learning...
June 26, 2018
News/Analysis
Qualcomm Sees Demise of Proprietary IoT Nets
Chip provider says 3GPP standards such as Cat-M and NB-IoT will take over because of better economies of scale...
May 24, 2017
Tech Primers
What Is Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)?
Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) provides WAN services to businesses, enterprises, and consumers, using software in the cloud rather than requiring proprietary hardware equipment and software. ...
April 20, 2017
News/Analysis
NS1 Launches DNS Security Service
Supports management of DNS traffic...
January 17, 2018
Tech Primers
What Is Blockchain?
How blockchain can take over the world...
November 26, 2017
News/Analysis
HPE Pushes SimpliVity to the Edge
HPE launches SimpliVity 2600 hyperconverged platform...
July 02, 2018
News/Analysis
Juniper Networks Aims to Catch 400G Wave
Penta Silicon goes into PTX and QFX switches ...
July 24, 2018
Tech Primers
How SD-WAN Enables Digital Transformation
Cloud-focused technologies can boost ROI...
July 24, 2018
Futuriom Blog
After VMWare Buys Heptio, What Will Cisco Do?
VMware beefs up its container-management strategy...
November 07, 2018
News/Analysis
Are Cisco & Ericsson Preparing for the Endgame?
Executives send mixed signals on the Cisco-Ericsson partnership...
June 28, 2017
News/Analysis
Big Switch Extends Fabric to Public Cloud
Connects SDN to public clouds such as AWS...
July 19, 2018
News/Analysis
Buffett Dumps GE Stock: What's It Mean for Predix?
GE may accelerate digital platforms to revive shares...
August 15, 2017
News/Analysis
Oracle Booms on Cloud Gains
Database software giant's shares hit all-time high...
June 23, 2017
News/Analysis
Broadcom Scales White Box With Tomahawk 3
More bandwidth for cloud applications...
December 19, 2017
Futuriom Blog
Cisco's Got Issues... & Arista Is a Big One
Revenues may decline 4 to 6 percent, as moving to the cloud challenges Cisco's business...
May 18, 2017
News/Analysis
Blockchain Gets an Identity
Big potential for using blockchains to authenticate identity in the cloud...
August 30, 2018
News/Analysis
A Deep Dive Into Cisco's Growth Challenges
Cisco needs more M&A to grow...
August 25, 2017
News/Analysis
Aruba Melds SD-WAN and Branch Management
Aruba Branch Gateways get SD-WAN features...
June 20, 2018
Futuriom Blog
How SD-WAN Can Boost Bandwidth
Gerresheimer used SD-WAN technology to increase bandwidth while reducing net costs...
July 09, 2018
Futuriom Blog
Will 5G & IoT Apps Go to NFV or Public Cloud?
Are NFV and OpenStack winning or dying?...
September 14, 2017
News/Analysis
VMware Makes NSX Everywhere Push
Extends NSX to containers and NFV for carriers...
May 01, 2018
News/Analysis
Avi Networks Integrates Cloud Automation Tools
Claims automation framework spanning hybrid clouds...
March 28, 2018
News/Analysis
ExtraHop Reveals Security Analytics Tool
ExtraHop Reveal(x) will scan traffic in the cloud...
January 31, 2018
Futuriom Blog
Apstra Has a New CMO
VeloCloud vet Michael Wood moves on from VMware...
August 15, 2018
News/Analysis
Cisco Opens up by Committing to REST APIs
Continues move to open up its products...
June 13, 2018
News/Analysis
Riverbed Extends WAN Alliance With Microsoft
Riverbed tightens SD-WAN connection to Azure cloud networking services...
September 24, 2018
Futuriom Blog
VMware Responds to Existential Kubernetes Fears
VMware pledges to make Kubernetes a first class citizen...
August 28, 2018