An increasingly acquisitive Cisco Systems Inc. Monday announced plans to buy Viptela Inc., a five-year-old upstart rival maker of software to create companywide data networks without the cost of ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

SDN is often thought of as the abstraction of the networking control plane, or the system that decides where traffic flows across a network, from the networking data plane, which is the system that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There’s an inside joke in the software-defined networking industry that “SDN” stands for “still done nothing.” People say that because despite the tremendous hype around SDN, many customers remain ...

Cisco Systems Inc. said today it’s boosting its networking portfolio to help customers become more flexible, productive and secure, and reduce their network maintenance times. The announcements, made ...

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 ...

In preparation for the Open Networking Summit (ONS) in a few weeks, ESG networking guru Bob Laliberte and I have been talking to networking vendors, end users, VCs, even actual OpenFlow shops. Here’s ...