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Brocade buys Cisco nemesis Vyatta
Brocade has announced its acquisition of Vyatta, a privately held maker of open source-based network software, for an undisclosed sum.
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Cisco considering incubating software-defined network internal startup
Cisco is reportedly considering incubating an internal startup chartered to develop the company's software-defined networking product line.
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Cisco CTO: Software integration will drive intelligent networks
Networking giant Cisco plans to make software one of the company's ?core competencies?, with the aim of creating a networking operating system that is more intelligent and contextualised.
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Aerohive pushes branch networks to the cloud
Aerohive Networks is planning to put branch offices' networks in the cloud for a annual fee starting at $99 (£63).
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Dimension Data finds vulnerabilities on Cisco devices
Large numbers of companies using Cisco network equipment are still vulnerable to a single security vulnerability flaw nearly two years after a patch was issued, an analysis of network scans by Dimension Data for its 2011 Network Barometer Report has found.
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Cisco and Xerox to collaborate on cloud-based printing solution
Cisco Systems has teamed up with Xerox to create a mobile printing system that lets users print from any device to any printer.
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Novell sold to Attachmate and Microsoft consortium
Novell, one of the earliest names in networking, has agreed to a $2.2 billion buyout by software company Attachmate as well as a sell-off of $450 million worth of intellectual property assets to a consortium organised by Microsoft.
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Cisco releases twice-yearly set of IOS security patches
Cisco has released its twice-yearly set of security updates for its switches and routers.
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Cisco bug crashes 1% of Internet
Cisco has fixed a bug in its IOS (Internetwork Operating System) router software that contributed to a brief Internet blackout last week, thought to have affected about 1 percent of the Internet.
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Vyatta upgrades routing software for IPv6
The Vyatta open source network operating system has been certified for IPv6, which is likely to become a key capability as the number of Internet addresses available under the current version of IP diminishes.
