LATEST CISCO NEWS

Although the new servers, based on the Intel Xeon 5600 "Westmere" processor, are not expected to ship for another month, Cisco is not waiting to brag about their performance.

March 18, 2010

New products and services opportunities for VARs are part of Cisco's planned Borderless Networks announcement Wednesday.

March 17, 2010

Cisco's Intercompany Media Engine will make its official debut at VoiceCon later this month.

March 12, 2010

HP's PartnerOne Boss says partners can expect new PartnerOne investments aimed at helping HP partners beat rival Cisco to the punch in the networking market.

March 10, 2010

Cisco's closest competitor in the carrier router space says its new CRS-3 platform doesn't reflect demands of most businesses.

March 09, 2010

Cisco debuts new carrier routing system for service providers, targeting explosion of bandwidth demands thanks to mobile, video and cloud.

March 09, 2010

Apple is apparently willing to dig its claw deep in with this one. In its claim with the ITC, Apple included 14 physical exhibits, including its own iPhone 3GS and MacBook Pro, along with 12 different HTC devices, in boxes with packaging, that it believes include patent infringements including the Nexus One, Touch Pro, Touch Diamond, Touch Pro2, Tilt II, Pure, Imagio, Dream (T-Mobile G1), myTouch 3G, Hero, HD2 and Droid Eris.

March 04, 2010

The impending Cisco Secure Borderless Network architecture combines new and existing products that extend the customer's network to protect all remote managed and unmanaged devices from any location.

March 03, 2010

John McHugh, the former HP ProCurve and Nortel networking executive just announced as Brocade's new CMO, said his job is to give partners and VARs the confidence to work with the vendor as it evolve to take rival Cisco head-on.

March 01, 2010

A long-time EMC channel chief was tagged to handle the channel for the new Vblock coalition consisting of EMC, VMware, and Cisco, while EMC brings in a former Accenture exec to handle strategic alliances.

February 26, 2010

'We see a fast-emerging opportunity to build relationships with partners that now need an alternative to Cisco,' says company's channel chief.

February 26, 2010

Turning off some of HP's partner benefits is one thing, but does Cisco have the guts to completely cut off its data center rival as a reseller partner?

February 24, 2010

The falling out between Cisco and HP could open the door for vendors that preach open ecosystems, like Juniper and Brocade.

February 24, 2010

The formation of the groups gives Tech Data a similar alignment to other distributors focused on enterprise solutions, such as Arrow Electronics and Avnet.

February 24, 2010

HP, once EMC's biggest reseller partner, went through a messy divorce with EMC back in 1999, a very public event that might provide clues to a potential aftermath to the split between HP and Cisco.

February 23, 2010

Brocade said it needs to focus more resources and invest more on the channel to increase its Ethernet networking business as that market converges with storage networking and the company faces new competition from Cisco.

February 22, 2010

As battle lines are drawn, concerns grow about brand lock-in and the 're-siloing' of the data center.

February 22, 2010

HP, in response to Cisco's decision to break off the two vendors' relationship, says it will pursue a strategy to work with all leading networking platforms, a move HP partners applaud.

February 19, 2010

Cisco VARs said Cisco's killing its channel partnership with HP comes as no surprise and it rids them of one of their strongest competitors.

February 19, 2010

Cisco said it won't renew HP's status as a Cisco Certified Channel or Global Service Alliance Partner as the two tech heavyweights' competition becomes more contentious.

February 18, 2010

A face-off at Mobile World Congress: Juniper with three products out of Project Falcon, Cisco with the fruits of its Starent Networks acquisition.

February 10, 2010

Cisco is preparing several new technologies aimed at helping customers connect multiple data centers into a logical data center to improve disaster recovery, virtualization and performance.

February 08, 2010

The company introduced its Unified FabricArchitecture, which aims to consolidate Ethernet, InfiniBand, and storage networking into a single fabric while challenging Cisco for networking dominance in the virtual data center.

February 05, 2010

Earnings and revenue top analyst estimates across the board after several quarters of declining growth.

February 03, 2010

In its SEC filing, GlassHouse also outlined its close relationship with Dell and the role that Dell and Cisco would play in any potential sale of the company.

February 02, 2010