You would think it's just a sleepy Monday before New Year's Eve, but for large networking technology vendors worrying about their Software Defined Networking (SDN) strategy, it may not

Check out our latest interview in our NFV Interview Series. We're speaking with Wes George of Time Warner Cable about how SDN and NFV fit into a cable MSO's

BOSTON -- Plexxi, a data networking company based in the Boston area, may be the zen startup of data networking -- it is both "hot" and quiet at the

Continuing the strong trend of a volatile and aggressively traded optical sector, optical-networking component maker Finisar raised eyebrows with a second-quarter fiscal year earnings release that beat estimates and

In joining the OpenDaylight Project as its first executive director, Neela Jacques got to hear a lot — a whole lot — about why the open-source SDN effort is

Well, the Insieme Networks folks have been payed off. The startup showed just how important it was, as Cisco announced today that was aquiring Insieme for $860 million as

This is going to be fun. Arista, the current wunderkind of networking technology in Silicon Valley, on Monday launched a series of high-powered data-center switches. It also drafted a

Another week in the market, another day for hysterical counter-reactions to previous irrational exuberance. Yes, I'm talking about optical stocks.

F5 Networks, Inc. (FFIV) had some good news for investors this morning, as it announced results that beat analyst expectations. The company also raised guidance going forward. In pre-market

Virtualization software specialist VMware (VMW) reported a solid Q3 on Monday night, boosted by strong growth in new enterprise license agreements (ELA), including the biggest deal in its history

The flash-storage market is exciting these days, just because it has all the hallmarks of technology bloodbath. Some people will get killed and others will make a killing.

Firespotter Labs has shifted from developing apps for the restaurant industry to helping business communicators. Call it a food-to-phone transition.

One of today's fresh tech IPOs is Violin Memory (VMEM), a Silicon Valley maker of flash-memory storage systems. But Violin's IPO wasn't anything like the FireEye (EYE) and Rocket

Holy mother of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). Are people really such big suckers? Are they that naive? Yesterday, AT&T and Cisco jumped on the marketing bandwagon to pile on

Speaking with CloudPhysics Founder and CEO John Blumenthal, you get the sense that the modern data center, which supplies all that cloud-computing power, is a total mess.

The financial mavens are taking notice of the tech IPO market. They're worried, 'cause it's gotten too hot. On Friday, two tech IPOs covered here, Rocket Fuel (FUEL) and

SAN FRANCISCO -- Michelangelo "Mike" Volpi, the former Cisco Systems executive who is now a venture partner with Index Ventures, sat across from me in the comfy chairs of

The Tuesday after Labor Day often brings lots of deals. Sometimes the market likes them, sometimes the market hates them. This morning we learned that Microsoft (MSFT) is ponying

Many veterans of the networking technology market will recognize the name Jonathan Reeves. A long-time entrepreneur with engineering roots dating back to General Datacomm in the early 1990s, Reeves

There's this thing called Software Defined Networking (SDN) generating quite a lot of noise in the networking technology market right now. PR and marketing people love new buzzwords and

With tech earnings underway, hedge-fund traders have more stocks to manipulate than ever (just kidding, kind of). It's been a volatile earnings season, with many beaten-down tech stocks --

Cisco just pulled off the biggest deal since its blockbuster acquisition of NDS for $5B in 2012, buying publicly traded SourceFire (FIRE) for $2.7B. The move is an interesting

Good know all the money being pumped into mobile devices is going somewhere. Verizon Communications (VZ) reported a solid second quarter with a profit of 73 cents per share

AT&T on Friday announced it's buying independent carrier Leap Wireless Inc. (LEAP) for about $1.2 billion in a bid to scale up in its battle against goliath rival Verizon.Leap's