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.

Cisco Systems Inc. is acquiring Isovalent Inc., a startup that develops networking software based on the open-source eBPF tool. Cisco announced the deal today without disclosing the financial terms.

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 ...

Company Focuses on Enhancing the Programmability of Networking and making SDN Part of its Approach. GITEX, Dubai, 16 October 2012 - Cisco unveiled 'Cisco ONE' its position on Software Defined ...

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 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 ...

From software defined networking challenges to killing Cius and corporate restricting moves, it was a busy year for Cisco. From software defined networking challenges to killing Cius and corporate ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...