Light Reading commissioned EANTC to test Juniper's Cloud CPE product and the NFV solution impressed the evaluation team.

New analytics and multi-cloud management tools follow a busy week of product announcements for Red Hat.

Manufacturing giant tapping into cloud-based analytics from Microsoft Azure to reduce failures on the assembly line.

The UK's decision to quit the European Union has had global reverberations but it's hard to tell exactly how bad the aftershocks will be.

Major hosting company shifts from Infinera to Cisco for its optical transport platform as it expands its fiber network and data center empire.

Cisco buy gives it a bigger presence in cloud security.

Adds support for use cases from laptop to production servers. Also adding storage support.

Connecting branch offices to cloud services with minimal on-site IT.

Enterprises can move existing applications to the cloud using new JBoss tools.

Cloud-based communications platform specialist Twilio listed on the NYSE and saw its stock almost double on day one of trading.

Adds an important piece to Red Hat's cloud and application stack.

Connecting public and private clouds running Windows and Linux.

The Apstra Operating System is designed to provide holistic vendor-neutral network management and automation.

As data traffic continues to expand quickly each year, demand for 400G connections also expands, making way for numerous opportunities for vendors who make 400G components.

'Very few companies will own their own data centers,' says AWS CEO Andy Jassy.

Dell's Jim Ganthier on how the very essence of enterprise is being affected by digital disruption – and how the cloud can help companies find a path forward.

Container orchestration for non-super-geniuses.

Microsoft is partnering with Kind Financial, a Los Angeles startup, to offer cloud (ha ha no seriously) software to help governments ensure marijuana businesses remain regulatory compliant.

Improvements to messaging, voice recognition and customer privacy were on the menu for enterprise cloud at Apple's big developers' conference this week.

LinkedIn has ambitious plans to migrate its infrastructure to a private cloud, but the social network's acquisition by Microsoft places that in doubt.

Tetration Analytics is designed to automate monitoring 'every packet, every flow, every speed' in data centers.

Two companies with complementary missions and business challenges hope the sum is bigger than the parts.

SDN and NFV are more than just networking acquaintances, believes Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Executive Director Dan Pitt.

Addition of multi-cloud management platform and integration into CL Cloud will enable major flexibility for enterprise IT customers.

Acquisition of ElasticBox pushes CSP deeper into enterprise IT efforts to manage applications and services across hybrid clouds, containers.

The best Twitter jokes about Apple's big spring news.

Unifies compute, storage, networking and security in a single view, accelerating VMware's transition from server virtualization to cloud.

In a massive deal, Microsoft is buying the business-focused social networking site for $26.2 billion in cash.

Struggling maker of Norton antivirus software gets a new CEO and a chance to rekindle its security sector fortunes with takeover move.

Ex-Gigamon sales VP Mike Hoffman specializes in customer 'land and expand.'

At Upskill U, Heavy Reading Chief Analyst Patrick Donegan addresses security solutions in the NFV environment.

Two steps down from the CEO's office, just like before. But quite a twisty path to get there.

CenturyLink Chairman Bill Owens believes the communications industry needs greater collaboration and, to achieve that, the US needs to lower some barriers.

On Light Reading's Upskill U, Chris McReynolds of Level 3 tackles latency challenges in cloud networks, explores SDN use cases and covers end-to-end hybrid cloud solutions.

Supports Windows and Linux, bare metal and virtual machines in public and private cloud environments.

Looks to grow beyond roots, as private cloud may lack a long-term future.

Vodafone's group head of network virtualization, David Amzallag, takes a deep dive into Vodafone Ocean, the operator's transformation strategy.

For Chris MacFarland, chairman and CEO of Masergy, it's all about the customer experience, and how to make it better.

Portland facility marks one of first deployments of Amazon Direct Connect outside major metro area, and one of first with Megaport SDN fabric.

Open source group Cloud Native Computing Foundation wants more telecom operators to join its user group and make their needs known.

Intuit is going all in on Amazon Web Services.

The worry is that the on-premises software business could 'evaporate' in three years, as happened with AT&T's wireline business.

Light Reading Founder and CEO Steve Saunders outlines the growing importance of the communications industry's transformation to the world's broader industrial and social development.

Also in today's EMEA regional roundup: Actility's new boss; IBM buys EZsource; BT does cloud business; Gemalto chosen for Helsinki transport ticketing.

But Hewlett Packard Enterprise and its partners in the Cloud28+ program will need to generate revenue and customer wins to succeed.

Demandware will become the foundation of a 'billion dollar cloud' for Salesforce, company head Marc Benioff says.

Pankaj Patel, Cisco's departing Chief Development Officer, visits the Big Communications Event (BCE) and talks about his 20 years at the networking giant and how John Chambers instilled a customer-centric culture at the company.

See who picked up the 2016 Leading Lights awards at the gala dinner in Austin, Texas.