Washington D.C. -- Guess what: One of the pioneers and inventors of Ethernet technology, Bob Metcalfe, believes that Net Neutrality and the regulation of the Internet is a colossal

Companies that want to be leaders in SDN/NFV need to focus on building partner ecosystems, and the industry as a whole needs companies to step up and fill that

The rumor mills of Silicon Valley are working overtime speculating about why Juniper Networks CEO Shaygan Kheradpir suddenly resigned last week from a corner-office job that could have paid

Not a bad quarter for Cisco, given that the bottom has fallen out of the emerging markets and service provider business.

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,

Sneaky AT&T. On Friday afternoon, after markets had closed and many business participants had moved on to either cocktails or other weekend plans, the global service provider announced in

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

Just as some large doubts are starting to brew among some key Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) startups, Infonetics research has come out with a

Hybrid clouds sound warm and cuddly, and apparently everybody wants them. But rigging up a hybrid cloud -- which connects disaparate public and private cloud resources -- is harder

Awards programs are usually a lot of work and a lot of fun. More importantly though, you can gain a lot of insight looking over dozens of awards entries.

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

In the era of aggressive shareholder activists, it's not much fun to be a technology company with lots of cash and slowing growth. Just ask Riverbed Technology (RVBD), the

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

This week there were a number of interesting developments in cloud infrastructure circles, including a cloud deal or two and Hewlett-Packard's new strategy to "vaporize" data centers.

The Software Defined Networking (SDN) movement has a few core leaders that have been around since it sprouted from the grass-roots academic environments of Stanford University and Berkeley, where

In a move to extend the reach and penetration of its Blue Planet management platform, optical networking vendor Cyan Inc. (CYNI) has added support for Cisco and Juniper routers.

Software Defined Networking startup Pica8, which was named as one of the leaders in our SDN Revolution Report, has been busy lately. Last week, the company announced $12.5M in

Every day we read about a massive new data breach. Today it's AT&T and Yahoo. This comes after huge security incidents at Target, Home Depot, and JP Morgan in

SAN FRANCISCO -- This week I spent some time at Oracle World, marveling at the vast Oracle empire, sipping cappuccino next to the Oracle America's Cup yacht, and watching

Pica8, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup developing "white box" switching systems using Software Defined Networking (SDN) technology, today announced a $12.5M Series B funding round from a group of

You may have heard about the "Webscale" phenonemon, in which large cloud-based service providers, including social networks, are required to build massively scaleable data centers. One of the biggest

Hunter Newby, the CEO of fiber company Allied Fiber, believes the policies of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States are impeding investment in telecom infrastructure -- and

A new study links gigabit-speed broadband to higher economic growth, concluding that communities with widely available gigabit access have per capita GDP that is 1.1 percent higher than communities

Cisco announced a deal to buy Metacloud yesterday, affirming two big trends in cloud computing: 1) Private cloud and 2) OpenStack.