Cisco is launching a new hands-on ACI Rotation Program for partners to teach engineers how to build applications and services on top its application centric infrastructure (ACI).

In acquiring agile software developer Asynchrony, World Wide Technology gains software expertise to add a whole new level of customer-centric value to its traditional data center infrastructure business.

Partners are hailing Cisco's recent software acquisition spree as the networking giant reveals plans to purchase cloud-based security specialist OpenDNS.

One of India's biggest service providers is reportedly trying to snatch up Cisco's popular CTO Padmasree Warrior for an advisory or board role.

Cisco continues to make inroads in the booming Internet-of-Things market after launching more than a dozen new IoT-focused products on Monday.

The huge investment provides Cisco with greater visibility and a stronger presence in China to better compete against Huawei and against telecom giant ZTE as well, say solution providers.

Cisco ramped up its Internet of Things strategy Monday by launching more than a dozen Internet-of-Things purpose-built products and a new IoT framework hoping to accelerate partner adoption.

Brad Hedlund, a well-known VMware sales engineer and vocal supporter of NSX software-defined networking, has left to help Amazon Web Services open its new Chicago field office.

Cisco Big Data consultant Robert Novak lectures on how to back up big data and prepare for the worst.

Arista's CloudVision offers a 'controller-agnostic view' of software-defined networking, delivering cloudlike automation via partners including HP, Microsoft, VMware and Dell, says an Arista executive.

Pure Storage is offering level-1 and level-2 support opportunities to its FlashStack converged infrastructure partners currently providing such support to the Cisco components of FlashStack.

Frank Calderoni spent a decade at the networking giant and now joins Red Hat to lead its finance organization, replacing longtime CFO Charlie Peters.

CRN speaks to Synergy Research Group founder Jeremy Duke about the battle underway between Cisco and Hewlett-Packard to win the fast-growing cloud infrastructure equipment market.

'The pivot point right now in this market is moving so fast, we're just positioned to be more agile and make that change faster than some of the other guys,' Dell channel chief Cheryl Cook tells CRN.

The CEO of software-defined networking specialist Pica8 claims Cisco's switches and ACI platform have greater security risks than white-box, bare-metal switches because they are closed.

In his last public appearance as Cisco's CEO, John Chambers joined his replacement Chuck Robbins at the annual Cisco Live conference where they frankly discussed successes and setbacks and exactly what Chambers is going to do with his 'half-time' retirement.

Cisco continued to slash its executive team Monday, this time on the China front, as incoming CEO Chuck Robbins moves forward with his vision of a "flatter" leadership team.

Silver Peak delivers a new software-defined WAN solution that its CEO, David Hughes, says competitor Cisco can't match.

Cisco unleashed a barrage of money-making opportunities for partners at two conferences in the past six weeks. Here are 18 new ways the networking giant is making it more lucrative to be a Cisco partner.

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