SDN, or software-defined software, is one of the latest networking strategies. Open Networking Foundation defines ''a network control plane that controls several devices and is physically separated ...

Solution providers are giving a thumbs-up to the new integrated, virtual data center coalition formed by Cisco, EMC and VMware but say details on the initiative are lacking. Meanwhile, distributors ...

As Cisco and VMware run virtually neck-and-neck in the SDN market, the two continue the war of words on the mindshare battlefield. Cisco posted another blog item last month which included points ...

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 ...

VMware’s NSX now has 100 paying customers, with more lining up thanks to free publicity from last month's Cisco Live conference, according to VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. He was speaking yesterday at the ...

Just when everyone was preparing for a crack, Cisco and VMware say they have expanded their strategic relationship to offer integrated products for cloud infrastructures. At this week’s VMworld ...

Cisco Systems plans to acquire a 1.6 percent equity stake in virtualization software player VMware, mirroring a step Intel took earlier this month. The investment is part of an upcoming initial public ...

In a surprising move last week, Cisco announced that it was going to increase its equity stake in VMware. The company is going to purchase an additional 500,000 shares of VMware Class A common stock.

In November, VMware, Cisco and EMC -- which owns 80 percent of VMware -- announced the VCE coalition, a partnership to develop a series of cloud-computing platforms designed and tested to handle ...