As large enterprises spread by deploying distributed data centers and on-prem or public-cloud services, their ability to control and manage applications and workloads utilizing that infrastructure is ...

A new version of Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking promises to simplify complex, multilayer networks by converging the IP and optical layers and minimizing the functional overlap. The software is ...

Cisco stated on Thursday its intention to acquire data virtualization software and services company Composite Software. The networking giant said it hopes to include its Smart Services portfolio and ...

Cisco has built a new network operating system that will allow users to run its most sophisticated networking features on older and lower-cost Cisco routers and switches, according to a report. The ...

Cisco has decided that putting software developers and nework professionals together should speed up the pace of innovation and increase levels of automation. The vendor is holding its Cisco Live ...

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 ...

Appliances running Cisco's DNA Center software before Release 1.1.4 are vulnerable to an authentication bypass that could allow a remote attacker to "take complete control" of its identity management ...

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 ...

Looking to develop new management software, Cisco agrees to buy start-up in a deal valued at up to $122 million. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services ...