Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization have promised to revolutionize the datacenter. SDN breaks the tight connection between the forwarding plane (moving data from ...

Fixed software programs that internally control various electronic devices or individual hardware parts of these devices (such as mobile phones). They involved very basic low-level operations of the ...

Changing the software in flash memory, which is a storage chip that holds instructions, settings and preferences. With regard to computers, firmware updates are infrequent but sometimes necessary to ...