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 ...

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 ...

Network fabrics have been all the rage for the past couple of years. Almost every network vendor now has a “fabric” vision and related product set to address the shift from legacy networks to ...

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 ...

Moving past its infancy, software-defined networking (SDN) is becoming a significant player in the management of IT infrastructure and network design. While implementation can be a challenge, SDN is ...

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.

For years, computer scientists have dreamed up ways to improve networks’ speed, reliability, energy efficiency, and security. But their schemes have generally remained lab projects, because it’s been ...