SAN DIEGO — Cisco’s network programmability strategy is a multifaceted initiative intended to keep the business at the forefront of networking technology, even as it threatens the company’s dominance.

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 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 ...

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 Systems is reshaping its business, trading a past built on routers and switches for a model centered on software, security, and recurring revenue. The change reflects how enterprises buy ...

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.