Big telecom players are once again eyeing data-center acquisitions. Word on the street -- or at least on Bloomberg -- is that CenturyLink (CTL) is looking to acquire Rackspace

The long speculated tensions among Cisco (CSCO), EMC (EMC) and VMware (VMW) may finally becoming to a head.

This week is the week of VMworld, VWware's conference baby, the show where the world gathers to see the future of data center and virtualization technologies. I wasn't able

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

A merger of medium-sized data-center providers indicates that use of hybrid cloud services and Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to fuel growth in the data-center market, as larger enterprises

Cisco Systems Inc. reported strong earnings and profit for its fiscal Q4 and FY2014, beating Wall Street expectations by a few pennies for the quarter. But its shares and

A group of VMware alumni have launched Platform9, a cloud networking management platform designed to give private cloud networks the look, feel, and functionality of public cloud networks such

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

A new flavor of Wide Area Network (WAN) optimization -- one that is delivered via the cloud -- is ready to shake up both the service provider and WAN

Is Calix Networks (CALX) back? Skeptics who have burned before might have reason for caution, but the company's earnings beat gives the optimists a reason to look forward to

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

Apple shares enjoyed modest gains this morning after a solid earnings report yielding $10.3 billion in cash flow for the quarter. The stock rose $1.50 (1.5%) to $96.22 in

Verizon's solid earnings results and robust capital spending (capex) bode well for continued spending among wireless technology providers, although some analysts expect spending to remain flatten out in the

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.

Facebook's new "Wedge" platform is the chatter of the networking world. Why is that? It encapsulates the new genre of powerful, open networking platforms, including Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Pluribus Networks seems to be stacking up partners as fast as its server switches. Today the Software Defined Networking (SDN) startup announced a deal with Arrow Electronics to co-produce

In a move that demonstrates the growing urgency for traditional networking technology vendors to adopt open approaches to Software Defined Networking (SDN), Extreme Networks (EXTR) has joined the Open

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

Davra Networks came out of stealth mode this week, with a plan that seems to be a public relations dream. Take the Internet of Things (Iot) and combine it

Afore Solutions, a cloud security startup based in Ottawa, Ontario, has locked up another deal in cloud security technology, adding a partnership with Microsoft's Bitlocker encryption to the mix.

If there was any doubt that there's a rush to acquire SDN startups, this morning it's been confirmed. Cisco Systems (CSCO) has announced its intent to acquire Tail-f Systems,

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.