Stories by Jim Duffy

Cisco this week announced its leadership team under new CEO Chuck Robbins and three more high-level executives transitioning out of the company.

Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire Piston Cloud Computing, its second OpenStack cloud computing buyout in less than a year.

Cisco's co-presidents plan to resign on the eve of the company's new CEO taking the reins.

HP this week signed a definitive agreement to acquire <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2184029/data-center/sdn-company-helps-build-clouds.html?nsdr=true">ConteXtream, a provider of OpenDaylight-based SDNs for service providers</a>.

Cisco reportedly skirted US sanctions in order to sell networking equipment to Russia's military.

Alcatel-Lucent this week extended its carrier SDN product line with an automation and network control system designed to accelerate service provisioning from multivendor IP and optical infrastructure.

Reports surfaced last week that Cisco may be close to buying hyperconvergence start-up Nutanix.

<a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2846421/sdn/alcatel-lucent-virtualizes-wans-and-routers.html">Nuage Networks</a> this week released an application designed to better integrate physical and virtual networks.

Big Switch Networks rolled out new versions of its SDN-based cloud fabric and monitoring applications which feature tighter integration with VMware, among other enhancements.

Cisco this week announced intentions to acquire Tropo, a developer of software designed to embed real-time communications within cloud applications.

You don't become one of the most admired and successful CEOs in Silicon Valley and in all of business by doing many things wrong.

Cisco CEO, John Chambers, has rubbed elbows with many business, political and entertainment VIPs during his 20 years at the helm

Cisco next month will unveil an Ethernet switch designed for campus aggregation but in a space saving form factor that's smaller than previous models.

Extreme Networks this week said it will support a community-developed policy framework in its SDN controller as well as tighter integration with Microsoft's unified communications platform.

Cisco is looking to provide threat protection for data centers and clouds by integrating acquired security technology with its programmable, policy-based networking portfolio.