Cisco has adopted software-defined networking, aiming to get a foothold in an emerging technology that threatens the heart of the networking giant's business. The ambitious Cisco Open Network ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cisco Systems, Inc. may have been late to the software-defined networking party, but it’s trying to make up for lost time. Four months after it announced its Digital Network Architecture (DNA) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

The phrase software-defined networking (SDN) was coined when it was necessary to distinguish the concept from the hardware-based variety. Since that time, "SDN" has come to mean the type of dynamic ...

Editor’s note: Tom Gillis is Senior Vice President and General Manager Security Business Group at Cisco. In this blog he explains why Cisco is acquiring Isovalent to “define the future of multicloud ...

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.