Networks are messy. Although they can be made to look neat and tidy by holding all the gear in rack mounted cabinets with serious cable management makeovers, they are still comprised of small islands ...

There's a ferocious battle going on in the software-defined networking market between onetime allies VMware and Cisco Systems. To shed light on their respective SDN strategies, CRN spoke with Steve ...

Software-defined networking startup Embrane this week came out of stealth mode to unveil its product and strategy for virtualizing network services. Embrane was founded in 2009 by former Cisco ...

Cisco’s answer is a 3U chassis called the UCS XE9305 and new half-width devices – UCS servers packing a Xeon 6, and a ...

I spent a day last week at Interop in Las Vegas and came away with some insights into Cisco's Software Defined Networking Strategy. Interop is always a fascinating show because it covers the whole ...

Cisco Systems and VMware have been slugging it out for years in the software-defined networking (SDN) marketplace, with plenty of rhetoric over whose technology is best. But according to partners that ...

IBM’s technology services group is adding new support options for Cisco’s Secure Firewall platform and Hybrid Mesh Firewall.

Call it the un-SDN, if you will. Cisco’s new Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) initiative promises to tackle networking problems only partially addressed by current software-defined networking.

Software-defined everything, including software-defined networking, is taking hold in the commercial sector. It’s also starting to break through with IT leaders at state and local government agencies.

Cisco Systems Inc. CEO John Chambers said Wednesday that customer demands for cheaper, software-based products known as software-defined networking are not falling on deaf ears.

Company executives at the Cisco Live event in San Diego kicked off the conference today by pointing out that this year marked the 30th anniversary of the event. It was actually called “Networkers” ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) is becoming a huge deal. To many people, the term is opaque, almost to the point of being meaningless. After all, what part of anyone’s network isn’t ...