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 ...

SAN DIEGO — Cisco’s network programmability strategy is a multifaceted initiative intended to keep the business at the forefront of networking technology, even as it threatens the company’s dominance.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Software-defined networks (SDNs) change networks at an extremely basic level. This is well understood. What logically follows, and what seems to be coming into focus now, is that this dislocation ...

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 ...

Software-defined networking (SDN) promises some real benefits for people who use networks, but to the engineers who manage them, it may represent the end of an era. Ever since Cisco made its first ...

Cisco’s approach is centered on infrastructure modernization, secure connectivity and digital resilience. To advance that strategy, Cisco is embedding AI observability into its network and security ...

Unified Edge' designed so even retail workers can replace a server Cisco entered the server market in 2009 because the company thought incumbent vendors weren’t satisfying customers. On Monday, the ...

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.