Riverbed Technology Inc. (RVBD), which earlier in the year fell prey to activist investor Elliott Management Corp., has agreed to be acquired for $3.6 billion by private-equity firm Thoma

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

Network security specialist Palo Alto Networks (PANW) is rapidly climbing the market-share charts, enjoying quick revenue growth as cloud operations drive new network security installations, according to networking hardware

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

Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) today announced that it is suing Arista Networks Inc. (ANET), the data-center switching company that was founded by Cisco alumni and recently went public.

Pluribus has released the next iteration of its network virtualization software, Netvisor 2.2, as well as results from the Securities Technologies Analysis Center (STAC) benchmark associated with one of

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

As my monthly communcations bills start to approach my mortgage payments, I was wondering whether I was the only one that had this unique financial problem. Apparently not. Spending

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. -- Wedge Networks, a cloud security startup based in Calgary, Alberta, this week launched Cloud Network Defense, a cloud-based security platform that uses deep packet inspection (DPI)

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.

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

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.

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

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