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 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 ...

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 ...

Software Defined Networking (SDN) startups are being snatched up, one by one, by incumbent networking vendors who fear turning into dinosaurs as the software-defined data center evolves from Utopian ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Software-defined networking, which seeks to do for networking hardware what virtualization does for servers, is getting closer to wide-scale deployment. In part, that's because the open-source ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is software-defined networking (SDN) ready to be adopted in a big way in the enterprise? It’s been slow going so far, but there are signs things are changing. Plenty of suppliers in the network space ...