"Webscale" cloud providers and the data-center market are all the rage for optical technology vendors these days. Ciena today announced two new chipsets targeting growth in these markets.

Shares of Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) hit a new eight-year high, vaulting $2.30 (8%) in morning trading to $29.23, on a combination of positive factors during last night's

Cyan Inc. (Nasdaq: CYNI) is making a bid for the "webscale" datacenter market with the announcement of the N-Series, a 100 Gbit/s optical networking product line that is built

Overture Networks yesterday announced a series of products designed to move service provider networks into the Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) future.

Is it time to take a look at shares of Super Micro Inc. (Nasdaq: SMCI)? The stock of the data-center infrastructure provider took a hit after the company announced

Cisco CEO John Chambers may be having his Steve Ballmer moment. The situations are analagous. Steve Ballmer, the Co-Founder and fomer CEO of Microsoft, stubbornly stuck around Microsoft long

Do you think things will be normal, predictable, and easy to analyze in the communications technology market in 2015? Well then you are some kind of genius.

It's time to serve up year-in-review content appetizers for your New Year's Eve party. So break out the bubbly and read up on some of our favorite topics: Software

Networking technology firm Cyan (NYSE: CYNI) today announced a deal with Little Rock, Ark.-based communications provider Windstream for a new 100 Gigabit (G) metro networking infrastructure focused on carrying

Steve Herrod is a pioneer in cloud computing and virtualization. He's probably best known as the former Senior Vice President of Research and Development at VMware, the fast-growing virtualization

Networking technology provider Infinera (INFN) today announced that it is shipping its Cloud Xpress product, a small optical networking platform targeted at datacenter connectivity. Cloud Express is part of

Networking technology provider Ciena (CIEN) reported a fourth quarter 2014 loss of 16 cents per share on Thursday night, but its shares responded positively, with much of the bad

Networking is on the verge of big changes in Palo Alto Networks' favor, co-founder Nir Zuk says in this discussion about firewall virtualization, cloud security, and the future of

In filing a major lawsuit against rival networking technology company Arista Networks (ANET) on Friday, Cisco (CSCO) has done some initial damage in what is likely to be a

Networking technology provider Ciena (CIEN) is looking to step up the development of the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) market with the introduction of Agility Matrix, a broad platform for

Part two of the Open Network Ecosystem Series focuses on how open ecosystems are growing in software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV).

F5 veteran Karl Triebes gives a wide-ranging interview on the biggest network security threats of the moment, and the evolving approaches to combatting them.

As you may know, sustainability is emerging as a key component of cloud technology and data centers. Whether it's Facebook, Amazon, or BMW, companies are in search of more

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Verizon is working on a large trial of "white boxes" that use commodity server technology to deliver next-generation networking and telecom services, according to several sources.

AT&T's capex announcement is still sending ripples through the networking hardware business. Let's face it, right now it's a telco bloodbath for equipment providers. As we noted on Friday,

It has not been a great earnings season for the networking hardware equipment makers, especially those in the service provider segment. All through the food chain, from chips to

BigPanda officially launched its IT incident management product today and announced $7 million in Series A funding from Mayfield and Sequoia.

Monitoring and analytics technology will be a big part of building a more automated and adaptive computing infrastructure, as we detailed in our Future of the Software Defined Data

EMC has bought out most of Cisco's interest in the VCE joint venture for cloud computing technology, putting another twist in the rapidly shifting technology relationships in the cloud