With the investment, Cisco becomes the second major strategic investor in VMware this month after Intel said on July 9 that it invested $218.5 million in VMware. Storage giant EMC said in February ...

Cisco is looking to accelerate the rate at which customers adopt virtualization in their data centers, company officials said at the Cisco Live event this week. Cisco is looking to accelerate the rate ...

After months of speculation, Cisco on Monday officially staked its claim to the blade server market, unveiling a server offering as part of its Unified Computing System, an architecture the San Jose, ...

Cisco CEO John Chambers will unveil on Monday a new “unified computing” initiative which analysts said includes a blade server codenamed California. The purpose of the product is to manage and ...

Cisco has introduced a virtual network switch for VMware clusters, a product of a new collaborative partnership between Cisco and virtualization company VMware. The new virtual data center switch, the ...

Even more than other industries, the tech world is unforgiving to large companies that can’t respond to external change. To keep up to date, Cisco last year revamped the Cisco Development Organization ...

Cisco Systems moved further into the file virtualization arena when it announced a definitive agreement to purchase privately held NeoPath Networks, a network storage and virtualization firm.

Cisco has prevailed in a years-long legal battle with Egenera after a federal appeals court affirmed that the networking giant did not infringe on patents related to network virtualization. Cloud ...

Cisco is rolling out new products related to its Data Center 3.0 program, which uses the network as a means of applying virtualization across the entire datacenter Cisco Systems announced Tuesday new ...

Ultimately, cable operators want hardware decomposed from software. “We are decomposing the cBR-8,” said Greg Smith, a senior marketing manager in Cisco’s service provider business. “We’re making it ...

Cisco’s announcement Monday of a Unified Computing System for data centers quickly sparked a bragging battle about which vendor can perform virtualization better. The best-known vendors of blade ...

IT infrastructure service provider Savvis Inc. has been testing Cisco Systems Inc.’s Unified Computing System (UCS) for about three weeks and expects to take the technology to another level of ...