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 ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is turning up the heat on rival Cisco Systems with a strategic software-defined infrastructure partnership and sales pact with network switching innovator Arista Networks.

There's little doubt that software-defined networking will continue to play a larger role in the networking industry as market leaders like Cisco Systems and VMware double down on their SDN strategies ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about disruptive companies, technologies and usage models. When you think “enterprise networking,” the company that ...

Cisco highlights application-centric infrastructure as a way to help business leverage all of the benefits of SDN, now. Application-centric infrastruction (ACI) offers great potential for speeding up ...

Cisco is losing market share to Arista in the networking end-market, with Arista achieving double-digit growth compared to Cisco's low-single-digit growth. Cisco's end-to-end security business is ...

Glue Networks, a developer of software-defined wide area networking products, has landed $12.4 million in new funding from unidentified private investors. The company also got a big sales boost from ...