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

Last week, the Rayno Report hosted a social chat on #IoTanalytics. For those of you not up to speed on buzzwords and hashtags, that means how analytics technology can

Hewlett-Packard's strong cash flow provides the ammunition for it to go out and make some high-profile tech acquisitions other than the much-speculated Rackspace, according to a new report from

There's a little secret inside the networking technology markets: The battle between Cisco, VMware, and a gaggle of startups to take leadership in the Software Defined Networking (SDN) has

Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg gets to have all the fun. Not only does he own a Hungarian sheepdog, but his net worth has hit $32 billion as

Communications equipment suppliers are ready to report on the second quarter. Earnings in the next few quarters will be interesting to watch with major shifts occurring in telecom spending,

Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (SDN) are taking over data-center networks, but many question whether the technology is ready to penetrate deeply into large, global service provider networks. An

Remember how Google was the company would make money without being evil? Google's WiFi snooping may well be the biggest black mark on Google's aspirations of non-evilness.

Net neutrality has always been gray to me, not black or white. Wired points this out in a nice article making the rounds today.

The chatter about John Chambers' coming retirement appears to have accelerated and has "half the Cisco world freaked out," according to a former high-ranking Cisco executive.

Earlier this week, Ciena launched the 8700 Packetwave, an important new line of optical networking boxes aimed at solving the challenges of handling the boom in cloud applications and

Please, Mister Regulator Man, let's not let the AT&T and DirectTV deal happen. I hever want to buy my TV service from the phone company.

How will we get to net neutrality? Lots of lawyers.

Nothing warms the souls of technology enthusiasts like a bunch of dark suits in Washington D.C. marching in to take control of the Internet. As the Federal Communications Commission

You may already know this, but Netflix (NFLX) and Google's YouTube are eating all the Internet bandwidth. That's the conclusion in the latest Global Internet Phenomena Report from Canadian

I've lapsed on the Buzzword Friday feature, so it's time to resume it. Today's buzzword, or to be more correct, buzzphrase, is: "The Buyer's Journey."This one has taken over

The Heartbleed vulnerability has implications for some foundational SDN components. More importantly, it reminds us of the risks behind the big-picture re-imagining that comes with SDN.

Bernard Daines, a pioneering networking enterpreneur who helped expand the Ethernet maket in the 1990s, died today at age 69.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Open Networking Summit -- Vinod Khosla, a former Sun Micrososystems founder and Managing Partner at Khosla Ventures, dusted off a presentation from the optical bubble-era

What would it take for Quagga to flourish? The open-source routing stack fuels the success of some very large service providers and Web properties — most of which aren't

I don't use WhatsApp, the communications app Facebook just bought for $19 billion. My iPhone is broken and I have to wait another month for my Soviet-style telecom contract

You can't throw a stone on the Internet without hitting some big data. But what's interesting about big data, and its cousin, analytics, is that the technology has hundreds

AOL has finally ditched Patch, giving up control by selling the majority stake to investment firm Hale Global for an undisclosed amount. Of course, the Rayno Report tipped you

You heard about this thing called Net Neutrality. There was a big court decision this week. Is it the beginning of the end or are the journalists just being