Cisco and VMware deepen rivalry with acquisitions
Cisco and VMware were deemed the leaders in the software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) market in a recent IHS Markit report.
According to IHS Markit’s Data Center and Enterprise SDN Hardware and Software Biannual Market Tracker, SD-WAN is a...
The capital pool is intended to support municipal adoption of smart cities technologies
In many ways smart cities are the ultimate application of the internet of things—a huge variety of connected devices and infrastructure create volumes of data that can be analyzed to create multi-level...
Verizon makes SD-WAN solution available on a wholesale basis
Verizon Partner Solutions (VPS), announced it is making its software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solution available to wholesale customers to better control operational costs and boost bandwidth efficiency.
SD-WAN is already offered by several service providers. According...
As one of today’s fastest-growing and most complex segments, the Internet of Things (IoT) is not something a single company can tackle on its own. The speed of innovation, combined with the complexity of solutions and the need for scalability make IoT an impossible...
AT&T has more IoT devices on its wireless network than any other U.S. carrier, and the company sees partnerships as a key driver of its success. The carrier has leveraged its relationships with the world's biggest providers of cloud services to create new partnerships...
BT and Cisco expand partnership with two new solutions
In another move toward network virtualization, BT announced it is extending its partnership with Cisco with the deployment of two new products: a Cisco-based customer premise equipment virtualization solution headed by BT dubbed BT Connect Edge;...
Red Hat debuts newest version of OpenStack
Red Hat unveiled OpenStack Platform 12, the latest version of its cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), at the OpenStack Summit Sydney 2017. As part of the update, Red Hat, in addition to fixing glitches, is beginning to move all of...
VMware announces plans to purchase VeloCloud
VMware announced Thursday it intends to acquire VeloCloud, a startup making a splash in the software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) market. The move deepens the rivalry between VMware and Cisco, which purchased VeloCloud competitor Viptela for $610 million in...
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Mike Krell, head of IoT strategy for James Brehm and Associates, kicked off a panel at Fog World Congress saying, "No one wakes up in the morning and says, 'I wanna go buy me some IoT. I wanna go buy me some...
Depends on who you ask
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--“I think edge is to fog as to what apple is to fruit," Helder Antunes, chairman of the OpenFog Consortium told RCR Wireless News during Fog World Congress.Â
He continued: "We look at fog computing as an end-to-end...
451 Research: When it comes to fog solutions, ‘OT guys are buying outcomes’
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Fog computing is poised to unlock new levels of efficiency and data insight for a wide range of verticals, but, as the nascent technology set gains mindshare, a new level...
Google and Cisco team up on hybrid cloud solution offering
Google and Cisco recently announced they are teaming up to provide a hybrid cloud solution that allows applications and services to be launched, managed and secured over on-premise environments and Google Cloud Platform.
The collaboration indicates...
Part of cloud investment strategy for enterprise digitization
Following industry rumblings, Cisco this morning discussed its decision to acquire BroadSoft for $1.9 billion. According to a company announcement, benefits will be the "acceleration of the pace of innovation across Cisco’s collaboration portfolio, the delivery of...
HPE ceases to offer low-end server offerings to tier 1 service providers
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is bowing out of the cloud server game after announcing it is no longer providing low-end commodity servers to tech giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Last Wednesday, HPE President Antonio...
Cisco and McAfee announce partnership focused on shared threat intelligence
The need for robust online security continues to grow as hackers contrive new and creative ways to circumnavigate existing countermeasures and disrupt networks. In an effort to shield companies from these threats, Security firm McAfee...
The U.S. networking company will work with the city of Southend-on-Sea in a number of smart city initiatives
Cisco has signed a new agreement for the deployment of a number of smart city initiatives in Southend-on-Sea, in the U.K.
Southend-on-Sea said that the primary goal of...
Simultaneous, symmetric upstream and downstream transmission requires a new approach to interference management for DOCSIS 3.1
DENVER--As cable companies look to support increasingly bandwidth intensive use cases, including a new wave of uplink-heavy and latency sensitive applications, DOCSIS 3.1 has proved very beneficial in increasing...
Cisco has established a partner-driven IoT digital lab
Cisco has launched an IoT-based smart city pilot program in Hong Kong dubbed the Digital Living Lab. Together with a number of partners, Cisco set up a low-power RAN gateway (LoRaWAN) at Hong Kong Science Park (HKSTP)...
CHICAGO--Boaz Maoz, head of global sales for Cisco Kinetic, said embracing the internet of things (IoT) is an imperative for business success going forward, but it's not easy. "Customers are struggling," he said during a keynote presentation at the Enterprise IoT World event.
Maoz laid...
Cisco debuts ACI 3.0 for customers managing multi-cloud environments
Cisco recently updated its software-defined networking (SDN) offering solution, Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), due to the growing embracement of multi-cloud environments. According to the company, ACI 3.0 includes updated security and simplified management for any mix...
Operator prioritizing NFV MANO
Proximus, Belgium’s largest telecommunications company, has selected Cloudify’s cloud-native orchestration platform in its push toward network functions virtualization (NFV). Proximus will leverage Cloudify’’s platform to provide management and orchestration (MANO), and assist with onboarding and deploying virtualized network functions (VNF).
NFV has...
The internet of things may someday deliver a world of robots and intelligent machines that control all manner of devices, but for now, most connected devices are ultimately controlled by humans. Humans need information - we demand data, and then we want data about...
Cisco has beaten IBM for the first time to the top spot in Navigant Research’s poll of the top smart city suppliers. IBM, which has ranked in first position in each of the consultancy group’s previous assessments of suppliers in the smart city market,...
Cisco looks for ways to grow business with cloud-based platform
Cisco took a major step toward migrating its data center management business to the cloud with the debut of Cisco Intersight, a cloud-based automation platform for Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and HyperFlex. The release...